Good evening, everyone.
We are going to make 2023 our busiest and best year yet! In addition to processing 2 beef cattle, 14 forest raised hogs, 15 Thanksgiving turkeys, and hundreds of pastured broiler chickens, we are going to significantly improve infrastructure on the farm. We will expand our forest paddocks to provide more diverse forage for our pigs and improve the farm overall. Additionally, thanks to a generous grant from the Pennsylvania Veteran Farming Network, we will be running water to all of our pastures to better facilitate watering our animals and eliminate the cumbersome task of running hoses and carrying buckets of water all winter long.
We are also working to catalog our processes and document our farming practices so that others can replicate them if they so desire. Many of our customers are veterans and of those, many have an interest in agriculture and self-sufficiency. We want to clearly demonstrate scalable systems that potential farmers can use to raise livestock both for themselves as well as commercially on their properties. We will continue to blog, post to YouTube (we know there isn’t much there yet, but please subscribe so that you can see things as we upload them), and post to our Instagram and Facebook.
We will also be hosting an on-farm workshop in the late summer/early fall to demonstrate the dramatic positive effect our pigs have on our woodlot. This workshop will have participation from other organizations within Pennsylvania who are interested in supporting and encouraging farmers to build regenerative silvopasture systems on their farms and homesteads. If you are interested in participating, please reach out and we will add you to the guest list.
As always thanks for reading, and we hope you will join us in making 2023 an excellent year!
-CJ and Tanya