StoneTree Farm

StoneTree Farm
StoneTree Farm

Saturday 19 September 2015

New Ventures


One of the most important things today's small farmers can do is to keep trying new things. Above you see our latest attempt: Bee Hives. Now don't get the wrong idea. We know nothing about bees and even less about bee keeping. Naavah, 4 year old grandchild, had to educate me on the number of eyes bees have. 

Anyway, here we go with another joint effort to keep things humming (sorry!) here at the farm. What we've done is contract with a beekeeper who situated his hives on our land. He will have responsibility for the maintenance, gathering, etc. In exchange, he keeps us lavishly supplied with honey and takes the excess for himself.

This works well for us. We don't sell anything we harvest, reap, or grow here. But we do eat exceedingly well. Our eggs are for us, our meat is for us, and now our honey is for us. What we do get is the knowledge that the kids are eating the best food in the world. No  preservatives, no hormones just organic everything. I am very proud of Dan and Yael for their commitment to giving the healthy best to their kids. After all, these are my super, exceptional grandchildren and only the best will do for them.

Til next time.

Tuesday 1 September 2015

The Babies


I know its been a while since our last blog but I haven't had anything to write about. How many times can I tell you that it rains a lot in the winter? That it is soggy and cold? That I am never out of boots, wellies, galoshes, rubbers or whatever? Anyway, it feels very boring to me so I can just imagine how boring it is for you.

But today I am happy to report that there is indeed something newl Three somethings to be exact and they are the three babies pictured above. They are 6 month old Black Angus steers and are hopefully destined for a cushy life for the next 2 1/2 years. Ultimate destination? The chest freezer.

We have had such great luck with all our other Black Angus steers that we decided to stay with a winner. I am sure that our butcher will be as happy about that as we are. If you remember he raved so much about our meat that we ended up giving him some.

So that's my big news. It's Spring and the willow trees are leafing up and the rains are slacking off and the temperature is rising. And we have 3 brand new additions to the farm. Doesn't get much better than this.

Til next time.