Comments on: What is Franciscan Family Farms? http://www.franciscanfamilyfarms.com/2008/07/23/what-is-franciscan-family-farms/ No hormones. No antibiotics. No subsidies. Just real food for real people. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:13:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steven http://www.franciscanfamilyfarms.com/2008/07/23/what-is-franciscan-family-farms/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Steven Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:24:33 +0000 http://www.franciscanfamilyfarms.com/?p=19#comment-12 Thanks JohnW, I've been getting The Stockman Grass Farmer for a while now. It's a great resource and source of encouragement. Thanks JohnW, I’ve been getting The Stockman Grass Farmer for a while now. It’s a great resource and source of encouragement.

]]> By: Chris http://www.franciscanfamilyfarms.com/2008/07/23/what-is-franciscan-family-farms/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Chris Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:19:22 +0000 http://www.franciscanfamilyfarms.com/?p=19#comment-11 @ Ryan - Thanks for the kind words. You are definitely raising the kinds of questions that we'll try to address in future posts. FFF is making it one of our goals to be a part of changing the food scene in our local area, but we're still early on that path. Thus far, we have found connections to other local farmers, and have gained a great deal from it. Just yesterday, we had an experienced farmer come for a "pasture walk", where we were able to swap strategies for both farming and marketing. At the same time, our kids were able to play games of pirates burying treasures in the manure pile and royalty riding away in their horse-drawn wagon. So that's just the kind of thing I was hoping for when we got into this - working (and playing) with like-minded folk on both a societal and a social level. As for outreach to the community as a whole, this blog is probably our first foray into that element of this effort. I think that our awareness efforts will probably grow "organically" with the amount of product that we have to sell. Beef is at the center of our operation, but it takes a while to have a large quantity ready to bring to market. In a 2-3 years, we expect to have thousands of pounds of beef for sale... so in the meantime, we'll be out there building customers with pork and poultry (much quicker times to market), spreading the message about our practices, and mastering the craft. @ Ryan – Thanks for the kind words. You are definitely raising the kinds of questions that we’ll try to address in future posts. FFF is making it one of our goals to be a part of changing the food scene in our local area, but we’re still early on that path.

Thus far, we have found connections to other local farmers, and have gained a great deal from it. Just yesterday, we had an experienced farmer come for a “pasture walk”, where we were able to swap strategies for both farming and marketing. At the same time, our kids were able to play games of pirates burying treasures in the manure pile and royalty riding away in their horse-drawn wagon. So that’s just the kind of thing I was hoping for when we got into this – working (and playing) with like-minded folk on both a societal and a social level.

As for outreach to the community as a whole, this blog is probably our first foray into that element of this effort. I think that our awareness efforts will probably grow “organically” with the amount of product that we have to sell. Beef is at the center of our operation, but it takes a while to have a large quantity ready to bring to market. In a 2-3 years, we expect to have thousands of pounds of beef for sale… so in the meantime, we’ll be out there building customers with pork and poultry (much quicker times to market), spreading the message about our practices, and mastering the craft.

]]> By: JohnW http://www.franciscanfamilyfarms.com/2008/07/23/what-is-franciscan-family-farms/comment-page-1/#comment-9 JohnW Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:58:39 +0000 http://www.franciscanfamilyfarms.com/?p=19#comment-9 I think pasture based farming is the focus of Stockman Grass Farmer: http://www.stockmangrassfarmer.net/ I think pasture based farming is the focus of Stockman Grass Farmer: http://www.stockmangrassfarmer.net/

]]> By: Ryan http://www.franciscanfamilyfarms.com/2008/07/23/what-is-franciscan-family-farms/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Ryan Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:17:23 +0000 http://www.franciscanfamilyfarms.com/?p=19#comment-8 What an amazing blog, what a great way to be in the world...thanks for letting us see you work out how to do all of this stuff. It takes a lot of guts to broadcast the process, with all of its successes and failures. I simply want to put in a request for some info, perhaps some subjects for futures posts. I'm really interested in what FFF is doing vis-a-vis the rest of the farming community in Southeast Missouri and the "eating public" of the region as well. Is there a community of farmers committed to practices similar to your own? If so, is there collaboration/consultation of any kind going on? If not, are there plans to consult/collaborate? Regarding the non-farming community, what kinds of awareness-raising strategies (if any) are a part of the project? Perhaps my questions sound overly strategic and not sufficiently attuned to the fact that private practice is its own reward. But I ask my questions as a big fan of what y'all are doing and as a firm believer that more producers and consumers need to know about it. RH What an amazing blog, what a great way to be in the world…thanks for letting us see you work out how to do all of this stuff. It takes a lot of guts to broadcast the process, with all of its successes and failures.
I simply want to put in a request for some info, perhaps some subjects for futures posts. I’m really interested in what FFF is doing vis-a-vis the rest of the farming community in Southeast Missouri and the “eating public” of the region as well. Is there a community of farmers committed to practices similar to your own? If so, is there collaboration/consultation of any kind going on? If not, are there plans to consult/collaborate? Regarding the non-farming community, what kinds of awareness-raising strategies (if any) are a part of the project? Perhaps my questions sound overly strategic and not sufficiently attuned to the fact that private practice is its own reward. But I ask my questions as a big fan of what y’all are doing and as a firm believer that more producers and consumers need to know about it.
RH

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