February 1 News from the Farm!

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Dear Friends,

January is a time to plow through lots and lots of deskwork – seed ordering, supply ordering, budgets, plans for animals, fertility, staffing decisions, and we are plugging away. A little late to announce the CSA and meat offerings for 2017, but here it is!

Many Hands CSA

We love our CSA and our CSA customers. https://mhof.net/csa For 22 weeks you get an amazing array of the highest quality produce and we enter into a close food relationship, sharing recipes, thoughts, farm news and your news. Join us for another 4 weeks and participate in our late fall CSA for the month of November. You can also add eggs each week. Last year we garnered some strong praise for our food – and I am convinced it is because of our upgraded carbon sequestering growing methods – keeping the microbes happy, it turns out, keeps everyone happy. They have written the book on community collaboration, and as we learn how to “read” it, we can build true human health and well-being through our food.
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Meat, Eggs, and So Much More!

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January 18, 2017

Dear Many Hands Farm Friends and Customers,

I would like to apprise you of all the fine products we have available in our freezers and on our shelves.

Chickens – 6-7 lbs. – $6.50/lb.

Pork

  • Ground pork – $9.50/lb. package
  • Roasts of all types (3-4 lbs. average)- $9.50/lb.
  • Regular Style Ribs (about 3-4 lbs.)- $9.50/lb.

Lard – A superior source of vitamin D – $20/qt.

Beef

  • Ground – $10/lb.
  • Stew – $10/lb.
  • Strip steak – $13.lb.
  • Rib eye steak – $13/lb.
  • Shank soup bones – $6/lb.
  • Short ribs – $10/lb.

Eggs

  • $7/dozen – become a regular customer and we are happy to sell eggs to you weekly, biweekly or monthly. Our eggs are super fresh and keep well – you could come as seldom as once per month for them. Talk to us about putting together an egg coop.

Stocks – Try some of our ultra-nutritious stocks from beef, pork, chicken and turkey. After cooking down the heads, tails, bones, carcasses, etc. we carefully pick through the meat, marrow, cartilage, skin, and some fat and process it all in a Vitamix with the liquid to make a thick stock that will heal your digestive system and strengthen your skeletal system. These stocks come frozen in quart containers and go for $7.50/qt.

Soap – peppermint and lavender made from lard and tallow – hypoallergenic and long lasting – $6/5 oz.

Salve – made with comfrey, lavender oil, beeswax and olive oil – good for burns, cuts and massaging aching tissues – $8/2 oz.

You can get your lard, ground pork and ground beef shipped to you. Lard shipping pricing is up on the site and the meat shipping prices will follow soon. https://mhof.net/meat

This year our pigs and chickens started eating fermented grains (Nature’s Best Organic Feeds – http://organicfeeds.com/)  – as their core feeds. The nine pigs downed 55 gallons of whey per week and lived half in the woods, half on the edge of the field, moving weekly to new forage. The chickens and turkeys moved once per day in their mobile pens and the turkeys dined on comfrey every day for the first 2 months. The layers are now completely free range and supplement their fermented diet with stock and lard processing waste this month. They scour the fields when there is no snow. The cows were 100% grass fed on our luxuriant pastures.

We don’t have a store per se, but are available to sell to you if you call ahead to set a time.

Julie

Please Consider a Donation to the Many Hands Sustainability Center

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Each year at this time, we ask our farm customers to consider making a donation to support the work of the Many Hands Sustainability Center (MHSC).
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Turkey Time Is Here Again!

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Dear friends,

As has been our practice for more than 2 decades, we are again raising certified organic pasture raised turkeys for Thanksgiving. We love these raucous and nosey birds that move toward people, as opposed to chickens who move away. They started life inside in the brooder house with a nice array of certified organic feed, a shovelful of garden dirt, some dandelion greens and comfrey each day. They moved onto range after one month of age and have been moved daily since then. For the next 6-8 weeks we continued to bring them comfrey to go along with the grain. Comfrey is a powerhouse of nutrients that the birds relish.
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