Category: Farming

Inflation & Supporting your Local Farmers

1/11/2023

Our chicken tractors on the pasture, each "tractor" houses 50 chickens.

Eating locally is great. We know that. The benefits purchasing from your local farmers is threefold. From supporting the families who work and live in your community. To keeping your hard earned money within your community. To keeping our carbon footprint small by reducing the length of kilometers our food travels from the farm to our dinner plates. The benefits go on and on.

As we have seen prices in grocery stores increase drastically over the last couple months, I know the price of food is becoming more of an issue for everyone I know. Now is a great time to find a local farm and learn how to support them. We have a couple great options for you depending on your freezer space & families needs!

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Butchering Tips for Bulk Pork

11/14/2022

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If you have never ordered a half or whole pig it can be an intimidating undertaking and we are here to help out! Our pigs range from 200-350 lbs, so a whole pig is about 5 boxes worth of meat (and a half is about 2.5-3 boxes) Depending on how you customize your pork order will depend on how many of each cut you get, but we have included an example of a whole pig order below.

Hanging weight:

We charge for our half & whole pigs by the hanging weight. This is the weight of the animal at the butcher shop after slaughter (including the bones, fat, organs & meat) This is the most accurate way we can charge.
Our whole pigs are $6/lb and half pigs are $6.25/lb.

Meat weight:

Your total pounds of meat will differ from your hanging weight depending how you ask for things to be cut.
To get the most yield back we suggest getting all of the items including organs, leaf lard and keep the bones in cuts like hams etc.
If you would like all boneless cuts there will less weight because the hanging weight does include the bones.

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Pasture raised chicken... what does this mean?

5/22/2022

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1 day old chick in the Brooder Room

We are part of the Artisanal Chicken Program through the Chicken Farmers of Ontario. This program allows us to raise up to 3000 chickens on our farm, selling direct to consumers, through restaurants and grocery stores. This is an amazing program! Not only do we have access to some great resources and training, it also allows us to maintain a very high quality life for our chickens. Through the program we have to adhere to the CFO's regulations from everything to receiving the chicks to housing them to daily care and shipping to the abattoir. We have yearly inspections with the CFO to make sure we are doing the best job that we can possibly do! And every year we are able to improve our operation.

Pasture raised chicken, GMO free, free range, cage free, free run... there are so many different terms used to describe how animals are raised now, so many that is often has us, the farmers confused! We are here to clear the air and explain how we raise our chickens and why we do it!

We believe strongly in allowing an animal to express their true selves throughout their life. We allow our pigs an environment to root through the soil & chickens to enjoy dandelions and search for bugs. We believe that our animals are happier and healthier because they have access to the sunshine and fresh green pastures! Which in turn gives us a high quality meat and egg product.

Our moveable chicken coops in the field on a summer day

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Inflation & Supporting your Local Farmers

Butchering Tips for Bulk Pork

Pasture raised chicken... what does this mean?

Thoughts From The Farm

Rebecca Landman

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