Fellow grass farmers Tim and Liz at Nature’s Harmony Farm in Georgia are featured here in a great story by CNN. I hope to be producing at this level some day! We’re growing slowly but surely though. Enjoy! Embedded video from CNN Video
|
|||||
Sign up for the FFF Newsletter |
First, Ivy is 100% grass fed. Her milk has benefits similar to meat that is grass fed. The milk fat is healthy. Ivy is not fed “preventative” or sub therapeutic antibiotics. Two years ago I couldn’t imagine saying the kinds of things that I say all the time now. Things like “The forage was trampled SOO well today.”, “Honey you should see the way the clover is coming back”, “I think (so and so) is in heat”, “(So and so) is bagging up”, and “Moving the [...] “Hey! Come quick! We have a new calf!” yelled Steven as he dashed in from the grassy pasture to the garden where we, Steven’s sisters and families and I, his wife, were gathering the kiddos for an evening picnic. The shock of this good news delayed the family’s stampede only for a moment. We were [...] So, our entire farm is being based on perennial grasses, legumes, and other plants that people may consider weeds. These plants feed the cows, hogs, and chickens to some degree and for the cows it is 100% of their diet. Our overall philosophy is that the more greens we can get the animals to eat, [...] |
||||
|
Copyright © 2010 Franciscan Family Farms, Chaffee, MO - All Rights Reserved
|
|||||
Recent Comments