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December 9th, 2024 - Latest News
Happy December Everyone! I have to apologize for the long spans of time between updates here. Life – both on the farm and off – has been a zoo, and my diligence in keeping our website up to date has suffered as a result.
The summer flew by! With way too much rain early on, and then not enough rain later in the season, it seemed like two entirely different years. We faced a few challenges, but looking back on it now we really can’t complain. The crops all produced about average – no stunning victories, but also no agonizing defeats. That’s OK in my book! The best part is that with our regenerative practices (no-till, cover crops, and a diverse rotation) we watched our fields handle the deluge and the drought with equal composure, absorbing all of that moisture without any topsoil movement or loss, and then holding it for the dry months. It really drove home the feeling that we’re on the right track, and making good management decisions for our soils.
Sales of all of our farm products have been strong this year, and it’s kept me hopping. We’re all sold out of alfalfa hay already, but many other products are in stock and available. We put a big effort into our wildlife corn operation this year in order to expand our offerings and be able to sell all year long. We added a new grain bin for year-round storage (which was so very much needed), and a roller mill to be able to offer cracked corn in addition to shelled and whole cob corn. We took a year off of doing broiler chickens so that we could focus on other farm projects, but our plan is to get back into them in 2025. We cleaned and bagged a small run of soybeans to test out customer interest, and have already sold them all, which means we’ll do a larger amount next year! And finally, we have bags of cleaned oats available again after taking a year off from growing oats.
So on that note, here’s what we have available at the farm!
Maple Syrup is running a little low. We have a small number of pints and quarts left before we’re sold out, but we’ll be tapping and boiling at full scale again in March of 2025.
We have wildlife corn! bags of ear corn will be available until about April. Shelled corn and cracked corn will now be available YEAR ROUND. We grew a portion of our corn crop this year using non-GMO seed, so shelled corn and cracked corn are both non-GMO until we run out, at which point we will switch to GMO corn and I will update this page.
Click Here for Cob Corn Info
Click Here for Shelled Corn Info
Click Here for Cracked Corn Info
We also have bags of cleaned oats!
We are sold out of alfalfa hay for the winter, but we do have over 100 bales of meadow grass available, and a couple hundred bales of Oat Straw
Regenerative - Sustainable - Family
Our farm doesn’t fit into a neat little package. It’s complicated and diverse in its offerings, and becoming more so each year. It’s a difficult place to sum up quickly, but I think these three words come pretty close to nailing our core values when it comes to our life and livelihood here. We’re a fourth generation family farm located south of Jordan, Minnesota, and we’re proud to be practicing regenerative agriculture on all 100 acres of our land. We encourage you to check out our products for sale, and explore the rest of our website to learn about who we are and what we do. We also post regularly to Instagram and Facebook, and feature some of our day to day operations on YouTube. Links below, and in the upper right of the top menu!
A Quick Look at Our Products
Wildlife FEED
From November until late April we offer 50 lb bags of shelled corn for sale direct to customers, as well as full bags of ear corn that weigh about 35 lbs. Folks purchase our
bagged corn and feed it to all kinds of wild animals – deer, squirrels, turkeys, pheasants – and also as a supplemental feed for flocks of chickens, or as a treat for goats or other small ruminants during the winter.
We harvest our corn on the ear, then shell it with a Minneapolis-Moline corn sheller. To make sure it’s extra clean, we run it through a fanning mill. The end result is a very clean product that won’t plug up automatic feeders, or make you feel like you’re paying good money for dust and dirt and bits of corn cob.
New this year, we will also be offering cleaned and bagged oats. In fact, they’re ready right now!
See our Products page for more information, pricing and availablility.
Hay & Straw – Small Squares
From late June until we run out (usually sometime in late winter) we offer small square bales of alfalfa hay, alfalfa/grass mix, and also some mixed meadow grass hay. For 2021 we also have wheat straw and oat straw available. We take great care to bale our hay dry and tight and keep it stored under cover to ensure a high quality product that your animals will love.
That said, nature doesn’t always cooperate, and when do bale a crop of hay that is sub-standard, we make sure to communicate that to the customer and adjust our price accordingly. If a hay crop is completely ruined and deemed unacceptable, we find other uses for it that don’t involve animal consumption.
See our Products page for more information, pricing and availability
Broiler Chickens
This year we began raising Cornish Rock broilers in mobile pasture pens. A farm just isn’t complete without animals – from the daily rhythm of feeding and watering and moving, to the unique personality and entertainment they bring, to the benefits we glean from their manure as a compost starting material.
More importantly, we wanted to raise good food for people, and do it in an ethical, ecologically beneficial way. These chickens are healthy, substantial, and quite frankly delicious.
We’re currently sold out for 2021, but will be raising several batches in 2022. Contact us to get on our mailing list so you’ll know when they’re available, or check back here for updates.
Produce
Gardening and learning to fulfill some of our own food needs is what led my wife and I to want to take over the family farm. As our gardening habit has grown each year, it’s now approaching the point of a full blown obsession.
It seems only natural that we would offer some of our surplus to the local community. This fall we’ll start with some resilient crops that keep well – pie pumpkins, butternut squash, and storage onions are all foods that I love to grow, and which allow us some time to get them to you without risk of spoilage. Stay tuned on that front.
Next spring we will be offering maple syrup direct from the farm. I’ve been producing it for several years for ourselves, and it’s one of my favorite things in the world. I think it’s time to share it with all of you.
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