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Too Big NOT to Fail

Blog: Bastrop Cattle Company   -   Wednesday October 07, 2009   -   By Pati

On Sunday morning a good friend and fellow farmers market vendor sent me an alert to a front page article in the New York Times.  The article is entitles, "Trail of E.Coli Shows Flaws in Inspection of Ground Beef".  The link is  ...

Good Help- Ground Beef Specials

Blog: Ebersole Cattle Company   -   Wednesday September 30, 2009   -   By ShanenEbersole

Well, we live in the middle of nowhere.  When I drive out to go check cows, this is my view for about 2 miles. I enjoy living out in the country, but it is hard to find good help.  But, having a family farm, means that I DO have some...

Grass fed Black Angus Beef now available

Blog: Quail's Run Farm   -   Wednesday September 09, 2009   -   By Loren

We are currently taking reservations for our naturally raised grassfed Black Angus beef. Learn more about our beef and how to reserve your quarter at our website .

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Back from FAIR!!!

Blog: Ebersole Cattle Company   -   Tuesday August 18, 2009   -   By ShanenEbersole

WOW!! This summer has flown by!!  State Fair is over, and I'm ready for an Indian Summer (or a continuation of our cool summer).   Fair went well.  My little cowgirl showed her first calf at State Fair & did a great job!  She...

Cleaning Up the Pasture

Blog: Hurricane Farm   -   Thursday August 06, 2009   -   By Chris

So every once in a while we have to go out into the main pasture and clean up a little bit.  Fences sometimes need to be tightened, and sometimes we have to remove undesirable plants to keep the pasture healthy and useful.  Aside from finding...

New Recipe

Blog: Breeze Hill Farm   -   Tuesday July 21, 2009   -   By MaLinda

Not much going on here at the farm, just the same old busy! I have a wonderful (or at least I think it's wonderful, my own creation) recipe to share with evryone. It's easy, not too terribly time consuming, you can fix it and walk away dish. It uses many of...

Show Time!

Blog: Ebersole Cattle Company   -   Tuesday July 21, 2009   -   By ShanenEbersole

It's summer Show Time! We always have a couple of really great heifers to show at some shows through the summer. Here is my oldest little Cowgirl with her heifer "Freedom".  This picture was taken at her very first show a couple of...

Moving Cattle -- A Photographic Essay

Blog: Hurricane Farm   -   Wednesday July 15, 2009   -   By Chris

Here are many of the long-awaited photos of our multi-day adventure in cattle moving. My Dad helped lend a hand to add higher sides to the trailer.  We used 2 x 6 dimensional lumber and affixed it all with lag screws and carriage (how...

More on the Trailer

Blog: Hurricane Farm   -   Monday July 13, 2009   -   By Chris

Here are some more shots of the trailer in progress. There it is "up on blocks" as they say here in the sticks. We removed the hitch as it was pretty rusty and hard to use. Here are our new tires mounted and ready to go...

Still Working On the Trailer

Blog: Hurricane Farm   -   Monday July 13, 2009   -   By Chris

We're still working on the new trailer.  My parents came down yesterday and my Dad worked hard on constructing some new sides for it. Here is Liev working hard at his job... He single-handedly removed all the old lights and helped to tear...

New Pasture, Take 2

Blog: Hurricane Farm   -   Saturday July 11, 2009   -   By Chris

To those checking back... 9:38 pm.  All cattle still in original location.  Some modifications have begun on the trailer and the onset of darkness has stopped me from finishing said modifications.  We will in good faith attempt to...

BEEF DAYS

Blog: Ebersole Cattle Company   -   Friday July 03, 2009   -   By ShanenEbersole

Well, it is that time of year.  HARVEST TIME.  We have been busy AI'ing cows, and making sure that all of the calves are healthy on pasture. And feeding the beef.  The beef have been growing great and we have 2 calves that are finishing...

Growing Up and Expansion

Blog: Hurricane Farm   -   Monday June 29, 2009   -   By Chris

There is so much to do that sometimes we don't take time to notice how large some of our animals are getting, especially as they transtition from little babies.  Remember those hogs that we used to till up our gardens, orchard, and bramble patch?  We...

The Race Is On

Blog: Hurricane Farm   -   Sunday June 21, 2009   -   By Chris

It's been raining on and off for almost three weeks now here in Southern New England.  The forcast calls for rain and thunder storms for the next 7 days.  This is good for some of our garden but detrimental to tomatoes, peppers, and people who don't...

We Are Happy to be Part of the Local Harvest famil...

Blog: localgrassfedbeef.com   -   Thursday May 28, 2009   -   By Andrea

Good afternoon! It really is, because my insane checking of our activation status on Local Harvest has finally paid off! We are now activated and ready to serve :o) Also, follow us on Twitter! Our Twitter ID is : localgrassfedbf I will TRY to...

Free Range vs Pasture Pens

Blog: Harp Turkey Ranch   -   Wednesday May 06, 2009   -   By Wes

We get alot of emails on how we raise our poultry here on the farm, so decided it would be a good topic to discuss on the blog.  There is basically two different ways to raise your pastured poultry. We are going to discuss both ways.  We raise all...

Pigs on Pasture

Blog: Hurricane Farm   -   Wednesday May 06, 2009   -   By Chris

The "little" pigs have finished tilling up our orchard area and we have planted four apple trees so far.  The trees are already starting to form buds! So it was time to move the piglets to a new area in which they can put their concerted...

Animals have jobs too

Blog: Harp Turkey Ranch   -   Tuesday April 21, 2009   -   By Wes

Here at the ranch all the animals have jobs too. Their jobs are to do the back breaking work of clearing and tilling the land, at the same time fertilizing and spreading it too. The pigs have gotten more done then I first thought they would. They have to till...

Taste of Cartersville

Blog: Hanging Mountian Farms LLC   -   Friday April 17, 2009   -   By Ted and Carlene

                                 Taste of Cartersville Tonight Carlene and I went to the...

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