We had a storm on Tuesday and it was forecasted for 8-10 inches. We got SIXTEEN inches of heavy wet white stuff. Luckily the farm did fine and we never lost power but too many are still south and east of us still with out power today- friday.
I haven’t been able to do much for field work for vegetables yet. Cam did some plowing but between rain and snow it’s too wet to get compost spread and do any planting. It looks like that may change in a few days.
My greenhouse is full . I transplanted the tomatoes, pepeprs and eggplant to 4 inch pots from their cell trays so they can grow better. I dont’ usually do that this early but I was out of things to do and it was raining!
Today is soap making day and working on some ones with natural clay colorings. I’ve decided to no longer use fragrance oils and go back to what I originally started with- essential oils. BUT this is going to be tough going as the price of EO has risen really high. 4 ounces of lavender EO is $55. I use 3 ounces in a batch. This means $3 of each bar goes into the scent. So……… this is going to be difficult to swallow for all of us.
Is there a way around this? Sure I could use frangrance oils which are way cheaper. But I want to produce a higher quality soap from the best natural ingredients.
So there will be limited scents but higher quality.
Beef: We have taken orders on all our 1/4's, 1/2’s and whole beef for 2022. Thank you.
If you missed out you can get some ground beef in early July. So why only ground beef? Simply we have an animal that is not working out as a mom cow so we are replacing her with a heifer we have retained that is the last daughter from our previous bull. We don’t do this often but sometimes it’s best for the farm. So this will be completely Grassfed- start to finish- but since she is not a young 2 yeor old the steaks will not be as tender. With all the demand for our beef we decided to offer this as ground beef which will be delicious.
PORK: We are seeing our grain prices slowly creping up, 20% then another 10% and it’s not coming down. So……… our April pork is spoken for, the November dates has a 1/2 pig availble. The December date we planned to raised piglets for well…… orders slowed down and grain prices are rising. We decided to stop and wait on orders. We will not raise pigs and lose money on the pork be offering it at a price lower than our costs. Which easlily could happen if grain prices keep going up.
We have LOTS of Maple Syrup and Popcorn ready to go and ship or pickup.
We’d love to have some local stores add it to their shelves so pass on our info to your favorite local place.
Some organizations sell products for their fundraisers and we would love to sell them our products for them to do fundraisers with.