Many years ago, our family switched from purchasing our meat from the local grocery store to a family farm in Pennsylvania. The family we purchased from raised animals for milk and meat (and partnered with other local families raising eggs and other animal species for meat). They sold to a NYC buying club and those […]
Author: Sarah Milcetic
Mint Leaf’s Birth Story
Mint Leaf was bred when she arrived on our farm in July of 2023, and we had our vet do a physical exam to estimate how far along she was. She gave us an estimated due date of Feb. 3, 2024. This was our first experience with a cow calving in what may be the […]
Monthly (ish?) News September 2023
New life on the farm, drought and pests, and winter preparation time is here!
Cutting our chicken feed bill by 65%
When we first started with three hens in our urban backyard, we bought the best feed we could find – certified organic North American grains, corn-free and soy-free – and there were plenty of kitchen scraps from our own kitchen and our neighbor’s to go around, plus grass and bugs in the yard of course! […]
New cow arrived with a highly contagious infection, here’s what happened…
In this post you’ll learn all about pink eye in cattle, how to recognize it, how to treat it naturally and how to hopefully prevent it from occurring in the first place. We share the full story below of how we went from very distraught about the potential damage to our entire herd to thinking about pink eye holistically.
