Good afternoon local food eaters, What’s with the weather? While we did enjoy walking with friends we were visiting in Pittsburgh in the near 70 degrees on Saturday, it just felt kinda wrong. I couldn’t help but wonder, what will happen to our maple syrup harvest if it stays like this? What if the cherry and plum trees put out early buds that get killed by the frost, like last year? What if we never have cherries anymore??? (This line of thinking was leading to nowhere, so I

Good morning local food supporters! Life on the farm is good, and we hope yours is too. The clock is ticking a rapid countdown to the start of the upcoming CSA season. If you haven’t renewed your CSA membership yet, please check out the options and please don't hesitate to let us know if you have any questions at all about share types, deliveries, or our products. This week and next week, I’m writing to clarify a few things about chicken. What is going on and How it got to be

Hello friends and conscientious omnivores! One more message about beef today. This might be my favorite - how our beef choice is a question of health and longevity for ourselves and our families. Health & Food Safety Reasons Why we should Choose 100% Grassfed Beef One of our guiding principles of farming is that healthy soils feed healthy plants feed healthy animals and so on up the food chain. When an animal eats a nutrient rich diet, its tissues will contain optimal nutriti

Good morning friends and local food eaters! Here is the next installment of our thoughts on why local grassfed beef is a meaningful choice to make. Part 2: World Hunger Humanitarian & Food Security Reasons Why We Should Choose 100% Grassfed Beef Personally, Brooks and I have a strong interest in and desire to do our part in helping alleviate poverty and hunger. We have been to places like Haiti, Tijuana, Guatemala. We want to be agents of change. This is actually why we got i

Hello friends and local food eaters! Happy New Year! We hope that you all have enjoyed a happy and healthy holidays. We sure did. It’s never easy to get away when you have animals, but this year we were able to travel to visit both of our families. You savvy consumers have already heard about the harms of feedlot beef, and advantages of buying local and grassfed. Since we started selling our farm products in 2009, we have always made a point to distinguish that we are selling