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May 2024 CSA Newsletter   Introductions I forget that some of you are very new to our ranch (WELCOME!!) and haven’t heard our story or who is behind those boxes of meat that arrive at your door. John & I are both from non-farm backgrounds. Southern PA for him and Albany area for me. Both… Read More

Summer Shipping, Explained Pretty sure I’ve never told you why we re-worked our summer shipping, so here it goes! You are use to ordering and receiving your meat boxes or cuts within a week or two during the fall, winter and early spring, right? However, in the summer we space deliveries out to around oce,… Read More

Morning Musings This was yesterday’s view from my desk. A few months ago I shared my angst with John ( feeling emotional that day) of things I wanted to write, yet our office is a revolving door of family, friends, neighbors, deliverymen, customers, dogs, and sometimes, even a bird ( concussing themselves on the window… Read More

December CSA Newsletter Happy Thanksgiving!! Somehow, the months have marched on and we have arrived in December like meeting an old friend. This year has been…. a different kind of hard. They say, “choose your hard” and while I am not sure I would choose it, the outcome of doing hard things, wrestling with questions… Read More

How it Began & How it Ended What a very full year. Overflowing in fact. You must have been busy during Covid lockdowns, telling your neighbors and friends about us. Towards the middle of March we noticed an uptick in orders that grew to an astonishing number by mid April. Packing hundreds of orders as… Read More

Frigid Morning   I finally regain consciousness from a nights sleep to be greeted by the red light from my alarm clock etching out the number 4:39 in the darkness of my room. Finding that the time is not sufficiently advanced enough to legally descend the stairs, I wait. 4:45am, only 15 minutes early –… Read More

Never seen your face. “I’ve never even seen your face!” – A customer. That is because I was ashamed. How can I share my passion with you when I’m so clearly not the poster child for healthy living? I’m smiling here and for the first time ever, comfortable and happy in my own skin. Am… Read More

Just park it for me. Ranch kids get asked to do a ton of things, early. Fetch this, hold this animals head, find baler twine. Use to using all manner of 4 wheel drive equipment, you have to learn a new skill set when you revert back to a two wheel drive van. Cole was… Read More

Duck, Turkey & Chicken Slivers of green grass are shooting towards the sun! The bare pastures already have a hint of green that grows stronger every day. The temperature topped out at just under 50F and we are shaking our heads that it is still February.  I’m sure we will have a few snowfalls before… Read More

Thawing….for Spring? We are not ready for spring. It isn’t as if we have any choice, but hearing a forecast of mid 50’s for this week isn’t the celebratory moment you would think. Living as far north as we do, you expect a certain amount of cold, snowy days and thus far, this winter has… Read More