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As the gardener, this season is really showing me that no two seasons in farming look a like.  Last year at this time I had everything planted and was trying to keep up with harvesting!  I have come to realize that I need to stop comparing with how much I already had done this time … Read the Rest

As you may know, Polyface rents and manages several farms in the area near Polyface.  Polyface animals are kept at the farms and either managed by contract farmers or Polyface staff/employees.  The animals on rental farms are managed the same way as Polyface.   The farms without on-site managers are visited every day to move animals … Read the Rest

I don’t know about most of you but I have become addicted to Pinterest! It’s basically a virtual memory board where you can “pin” favorite images, websites, blogs, recipes, etc that you want to keep and come back to after dinner has been cleaned up and the kids have been put to bed and you … Read the Rest

The asparagus is finally coming up!  I found 3 spears popping up in the garden yesterday!  Hooray!  What is your favorite way to prepare asparagus?

After a very long winter and trays of seedlings sitting all over the house in anticipation of warm weather we finally get to start our garden this week!! This is a picture of how it looks in my head! LOL It’s our first attempt at an in-ground garden and are so excited!! We started seeds … Read the Rest

With the weather slowly warming up, we were able to put cows back out to pasture on Monday.  This is one of the times that Polyface really shines, because our pastures start growing way before anyone else barely has green showing.  Last year I just stood in awe of the difference and wondered, if our … Read the Rest

First group of pigs are in the far barn turning up the cow bedding, making some sweet compost!      

I know! Long time….not post! Let’s just forget about how long it’s been and ooooh and awww over my favorite pics of the upcoming season shall we?! I got a new camera for Christmas – thank you Emerson!!!! – so now all I want to do now is drive around and take pictures and videos … Read the Rest

We sure have been practicing our egg cleaning and packing skills here at Polyface.  You know how many eggs we are getting a day?  270 dozen!!!  In a week that is 22,680 eggs!!  That, my dear readers, is a lot of eggs.  I enjoy it though, it is the signal that the days work is … Read the Rest