Harvest meal
We love getting friends together to enjoy a nourishing meal, especially a harvest meal. I cooked up an impromptu harvest meal with PFI friends on their way home from a Decorah field day. I roasted a lamb shoulder infused with rosemary and garlic in the oven for 4 hours. We had rosemary and garlic roasted […]
Oat cover crop
We seeded oats in early September as our non-winter hardy cover crop into standing soybeans. These fields will be corn in 2016. The weather and rains have just been ideal for aerially seeded cover crops to get established and grow. We haven’t yet had a hard freeze and it doesn’t look like there […]
Green pastures
With adequate moisture and warm temperatures, our pasture revived. The chickens love all the bugs and the sheep prefer roaming and grazing. Caught these pics on a beautiful September day. You can’t see the sows, but they are sleeping in the shade back by their a-frame huts.
Our egg layers
Johnny took this cute video of our egg layer chickens filing out of their coop. We keep them in, when its cool enough, until 11 a.m to train them to lay inside in their cozy nest boxes. Sometimes we have to go on an egg hunt to find eggs layed around the farm in dark […]
The Supper Club
Our lamb was showcased as the main entree at the latest Clear Lake Farm to Fork event last night. The chef at The Supper Club created a delicious Italian lamb dish featuring our lamb shanks and ground lamb in a meatball. It was decadent.
Cover crop year 2
I was out getting stalk samples today in our corn fields and saw that our rapeseed and rye cover crop that we seeded on the 10th is coming up nicely. We had timely rains and it has been warm and will continue to be warm until the end of the month, so we will get […]
A whole diet CSA
I have been inspired by this couple, Mark and Kristin Kimball. They created a farm from the ground up, and revolutionized farming in the U.S. They farm with draft horses, use sunlight and hard work as their only inputs. No chemicals, no chemical fertilizer, no gas or oil. They grow everything someone needs to eat […]