Shady Hill Farms, Ltd.

We are Shady Hill Farms, Ltd.

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Exclusive suppliers of premium all natural family farm produced lamb, beef and pork to Great American Lamb Company

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We construe sustainability to include making the most of what we have.

Here's a real life example.

Prior farm help saddled us with used hay equipment that, plain and simple, wpuild not tie a single bale of hay.

Junk it! Some said.Cut it loose!

Buy new!

We have decided, instead, to make the most of what we have working with neighbors to refurbish the equipment to either bale hay or sell the equipment in 2010.

Just received a bill for $480 for repairs to the (antique) hay rake.

Probably well worth it when you consider that the (antique but now completely refurbished) hay rake will rake our hay as well as a new hay rake would.

At Shady Hill Farms, we make the most of what we have.

That includes hay equipment that we never wanted but are now saddled with.

Repair, refurbish, and then roll with it!

Better farming: Better Lamb!

This is the Eleventh Blog From the Sheep Farmer at Shady Hill farms, Ltd. in Newbury, Ohio.

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I am reminded that what we do at Shady Hill farms is renewable and sustainable, all natural.

But sometimes on a day like today (!) also wet and dirty.

It is raining at Shady Hill Farms today and as grass farmers we always welcome moisture.Moisture produces grass and grass produces our livestock.

We are spreading manure at Shady Hill Farms today, too, which is long overdue from the standpoint of eliminating the piles which are an eyesore and a breeding grounds for flies and other vermin.Our fields need this abundant all natural soil additive and fertilizer.

But out spreading manure in the rain is both wet and dirty!

No matter we will continue and wrap this up before Winter.

This is the Tenth Blog From the Sheep Farmer at Shady Hill Farms, Ltd. in Newbury, Ohio.

Our premium all natural family farm produced lamb is available at GreatAmericanLambCompany.com.Also sheep skins and heirloom quality 100% virgin wool blankets.

So far there is no indication that anyone reads this blog but we will carry on.

We have had challenges at Shady Hill in 2009, and in addressing all of them I am reminded of the inviolate law of the farm: what you sew you shall reap.

In farming, but also in life in general, one reaps or harvests what one sews or plants.

Our problems are of our own making.

Taking responsibility for our problems, for the issues which challenge us, enables us to address these problems and issues and to build a better future than the past.

I celebrate all of this, that by accepting full and complete responsibility for our problems and issues we can address them and we can build a future that is better than the past.

I'd provide a real life example of this from Shady Hill's today, but am out of blog space.

This is the Ninth Blog from the Sheep farmer at Shady Hill farms, Ltd.

Newbury,Ohio

Our premium all natural American lamb and our Heirloom Quality 100% Virgin Wool Blankets are available only through GreatAmericanLambCompany.com

Sheep skins too, machine washable.

Our sheep are dual purpose, producing premium meat and wool products also sheep skins.

We honor our sheep and our family farm by producing and selling both product lines direct to the discriminating consumer.

Our meat products are hand cut, vacuum packed and flash frozen.

Our blankets are produced using traditional methods in an historic and authentic woolen mill.

We will share more about both product lines in future blogs.

Cold weather and right now folks clamor for the meats used in slow cooking, the shanks and stews especially.And they clamor for the blankets which are warm and toasty!

This is the Eighth Blog From the Sheep Farmer at Shady Hill Farms, Ltd., of Newbury, Ohio.

Better farming: better lamb! That is the motto\ tagline of our affiliated meat and woolen goods business, GreatAmericanLambCompany.com

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At our Farm we use manure and compost in stead of chemical fertlizers.

The manure is well composted as we clean the barns and pile the manure, it composts further in the piles.

Carcasses are also composted.

In the Fall of the year, when the growing season is over and the fields are readied for the long Winter In Northeast Ohio, we blanket the fields with composted manure and with compost.

We return nutrients to the soil in this manner, paving the way for a bountiful crop of grasses in the Spring to come.

This is suatainable agriculture at its best, manure and compost in lieu of chemical fertilizers.

The livestock will come to the barns soon, to lamb and to wait out the Winter.With the manure hauled the barns and clean and disinfected with lime and bedded with clean and fresh straw.So welcoming!