Or at least eat like one... Dear friends and customers of North Mountain Pastures, We've got a special treat for you today. Many of the eaters of our pasture-raised meats are athletes of one type or another. Sometimes this means active moms who chase after their toddlers (incredibly physically demanding!), some practice yoga or crossfit or a sport or two, and some are actually competitive athletes. Generally you folks care about your health and take care of your bodies, and

Hello friends and local food eaters, We hope you are enjoying good health on these first days of spring! I noticed an interesting claim on my kids' cereal box. Our kids eat cereal as a special treat, like dessert. Or in the event of an early departure, it is a quick breakfast with extra protein like collagen or grassfed whey in the milk. I often study the back of the boxes, intrigued with the picture that is being painted. No matter who the manufacturer is, whether a smaller

Good morning friends and local food eaters, Who doesn't love a good steak? We wanted to share some of our experiences with cooking steak. We eat steak about once every month or two, and it is a special treat. Generally we prefer cooking ground meat or slow cooking roasts since we know that they are more plentiful from a butchered animal, and we like to save our best cuts for the CSA members. Our absolute favorite way to prepare steak is over a wood fire. We love having fires

Good morning friends and local food eaters, It's been getting warmer more frequently, which makes it easier to believe that it's time to be raising chicks again. The first batch arrived 2 weeks ago. There was quite a bit of setup to do to prepare for them. The shipping container that we use as a brooder had to be thoroughly cleaned out and set up again to provide shelter and heat to baby chicks. We're trying out something new this year in the brooder: an automated feed and wa

Dear friends and local food eaters, I am writing to you today about what's being called "the Soil Movement". I have recently been reading the book Kiss the Ground by Josh Tickell, which I found at my local library (the Newport public library is amazing for a small rural town!). I've been loving this book. I've stuck in a hundred sticky notes, all of which are things that were new to me, that I wanted to share with you. Obviously, I can't share all of them, but I really do wan