Got Weeds?
The warm season stuff got way out of hand. This fall and spring we spend more time with the bush hog and moving cattle.
AMD @ GKF
No. Not acid mine drainage. American Milking Devon, the breed that George Washington raised at Mt.Vernon. These triple purpose cattle have survived for hundreds of years only to end up here to eat our weedy brush (or brushy weeds). AMD boast their short fibered fast twitch muscle yet finish easily on forage. So far we’ve …
Sausage Kitchen
Here’s the setup for our sausage testing summit. We ruled out a couple of recipes and tweaked three: breakfast (with sage), sweet Italian, and hot Italian (but not, we think, too hot).
Bale Top Lamb
Our Katahdin sheep and Dexters cattle are feeding during a late winter afternoon in the barn yard.
Our Spring Lawn
12 ducks emerge from the spring house.
Pastured Turkeys for Thanksgiving
We have a nice flock of turkeys foraging our pastures this fall. These turkeys are lots of fun to watch as they are clipping off grass and forbs and hunting for insects. They are amazing grazers. In addition to the pasture, our turkeys are fed a grain ration from a local mill without the addition …
2015 Vegetable CSA
Greene Kitchen Farm is pleased to invite you and yours to join us for the 2015 Vegetable CSA (product number: GKF2015_VCSA). We are a small-scale CSA farm on the outskirts of Bloomsburg committed to stewarding our soil, air, and water resources responsibly while producing ‘good eating’ for our community. We appreciate eaters who commit to …
Farm to Table
Nice little graphic of the supply chain options. Source: Fix.com
Woodlot Pork
We’re happy to have these curious, ornery creatures on the farm. They have been unwittingly working for me eating honeysuckle and poison ivy day by day. These pigs have trails through the brush, a nice mud wallow in the swale (especially nice after a heavy rain), and a bunch of small walnut trees that they …