What a busy, but glorious summer this has been! We’ve been getting our meat out to customers, along with all our farm work of raising pigs and cattle, milking our goats and raising meat and layer chickens. The ever growing garden and harvest has filled our days. We try to work in the mornings to […]
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Imagine you have a freezer full of grassfed beef at your fingertips. I can think of five meals off the top of my head I can make with ground beef alone! On busy days at our house, I pull out ground beef or small steaks to thaw, and I have an easy meal for dinner
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When I ask customers what brought them to our farm, I often hear this kind of response, “We’ve been searching for meat that doesn’t have added hormones, a farmer that doesn’t use antibiotics or pesticides, and we finally found you!” The foundational need that brings many folks to our farm is this: many of you
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Welcome! Here’s a little snapshot of who we are and what we do. We farm in the mountains of Virginia near the Shenandoah National Park. We’re the Beahms, Timothy and Julie, and our 5 children. We raise cattle, pigs, goats, and chickens. We homeschool, run two businesses, sell grassfed beef and pork shares
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Hi there! This is Julie writing, In our last farm update, we were all about preparation and getting ready for a busy spring. Well, it sprung all right! We’re raising 65 meat chickens right now, a good size group of pigs, and our calving season went well. The big projects for this month have been
March has been our month of “Preparation”. Late winter/early spring is the time on our farm when we gear up for our super busy spring and summer seasons. On our to-do list for the farm this month: ~Checking on the newest baby calves just born. Four just in the past few weeks! ~Clearing fence rows,
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What a winter so far! Our cattle are enjoying bales of hay during the snowstorms this past month, and we are thankful for our tractor and trucks that help us get through the snow to take care of them! We have grass to graze, but it was buried under hard ice for parts of January,
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This past week I had a very impactful conversation with customers who came to pick up a meat share from our farm that they had reserved. Each person we’ve met over the past six years since starting our farm has always been such a blessing, but this conversation was especially uplifting to me
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If you need to stock your freezer with some ground beef or pork, check out our wholesale buying options HERE. Ground beef comes in our small, medium, and large box options, and ground pork and sausage are sold only in the fall in our box option or custom half/whole pig share! Let me know if
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Normally I only share what’s going on with our grassfed cattle and pastured pigs and chickens that we raise here in the mountains of Virginia. And they are definitely the main stars of the show and the biggest part of our farm. But that’s not all we do! We also raise layer hens on pasture
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We are saving up to buy a new grill (our old one went kaput), and I really missed our easy hamburger meals, especially during the summer! I was often pan frying hamburger patties, pork burgers, and sausage patties, until my husband Timothy said one day, “Put all the patties in the oven at once and
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It’s easy to cook our farm’s delectable uncured bacon. Here’s how. The “bacon” we sell from our farm is actually fresh, uncured belly slices. It looks like store bought bacon, but has a more natural color and has not been smoked or preserved in any nitrate or nitrite solutions. The cooking methods are the same
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