Vision Farms Blog
Welcome to our new Vision Farms Website!
savocas • February 27, 2017
Our New Milk Cow
First of all, we would like to welcome you to our new, Vision Farms
website! Believe it or not, it has been two years in the making, mostly because I am a farmer, not a computer person. But, thanks to a lot of help from one of our tech savvy sons, we finally have the finished product! Please peruse the entire website, and see all that we have to offer. Of course, due to the time of year, not everything we offer is currently available, but we are gearing up, looking forward to a busy summer! We invite you to visit the website often, to see what is coming up, and we also invite you to visit the farm in person. We would love to have you!
Currently, we are excited to introduce you to our new milk cow, Lily. She has been with us for two weeks now, and is settling in nicely. We got her from a small Jersey dairy on the east slope, where she had recently freshened with her first calf. I don't think she had been around any other animals but other Jersey cows, so it took her a few days to get used to our menagerie. She is extremely sweet, congenial, and loves being around people. She is a good producer, gives lots of cream, and her milk tastes great! We are so thankful to have her as a new addition to our Jersey herd. Thanks to her, we now have herd shares available, so if you are hankering for a glassful of cold, fresh, yummy milk, give us a call and we will get you all set up!
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The sun is setting on summer but we still have lots going on!
Happy 2023! We hope you all had a blessed and prosperous 2022, in spite of all the challenges, and pray that you are ready to jump into 2023 with both feet! We are doing our best to do the same, and thus, we are now taking orders for pullets for the spring and summer seasons. Thankfully, availability of chicks does not seem to be a problem at this point, and we are planning on having an abundance of pullets available. We are taking orders for 4 different pick-up dates, at which time, your pullets will be 8 weeks old, and ready to get settled into their new home: April 8, May 6, June 3 and July 1. We will only be selling through pre-orders, so if you are planning on getting some replacement hens, or are just getting started in chickens, we recommend that you get your orders in as soon as possible. Pullets will be $12 each this year, and we require a $5 deposit per bird. Click on the button below, to place your order today!
Well, a lot has happened in 2020, and we hope you have fared well through it all! We have been very blessed here, throughout the year, as so many folks were seeking food source alternatives, starting their own flocks of chickens, and looking for puppies to enjoy with all the extra time on their hands. Thus, we have kept very busy, and have been able to meet a lot of new folks, during this time when interacting with people has been so discouraged. We are so very thankful for this farm, and thankful that we have been able to share it with so many of you. Please continue reading to see what we have to offer this fall, and from all our family, we wish you the most blessed Thanksgiving. We hope you are spending it with friends and family!
From our family to yours, we hope you had a blessed holiday season, and are ready to embark on this new year, with a hopeful outlook for the future! As we always do this time of year, we are busy making plans and preparations, for the products we will be able to offer you in the coming year. We are always working to fine tune what we do, to get the most from our investment of time and money, and to be able to provide the best quality products that we possibly can, for you, our customers.
Our schedule is set for our pasture raised broiler harvest. We are only planning on 300 this year. As our children get older, and have their own busy lives to tend to, we don't always have the ready help that we need, so we are cutting back this year. If you are planning to order this season, we urge you to get your order in as soon as possible, so as not to miss out! Our broilers are raised on freshly ground, non-GMO feeds until they are 3 weeks old. At that time, they are moved out to the pasture in our portable brooders, where they get fresh grass and bugs every day, supplemented with the non-GMO feed, until they are about 7 1/2 weeks old, when they are ready for butchering. Their dressed weight averages between 3.5 to 4.5#. Cooked up, they are tender, extremely tasty, and so nutritious. After you get the meat off the bones, you can make a nutrient rich, delicious bone broth that beats everything you could ever buy in the store. Get your order in soon, and fill your freezer with this nutrient dense meat that you will feel great about feeding to your family! http://www.visionfarms.org/cornish-cross-broilers
It is time to start planning for our 2018 chicken crop. The schedule is set for 5 batches of sex-link, Golden Comet pullets . We do these in batches of 100 at a time. We raise them up until they are 8 weeks old. At that point they are fully feathered, and quite ready to take up residency in your chicken coop, or free range in your yard. These chickens are actually a hybrid cross, usually between a Rhode Island Red or a New Hampshire Red male and a White Plymouth Rock, Rhode Island White, Silver Laced Wyandotte or a Delaware female. This cross produces golden red hens, with white highlights, and cream colored roosters with red highlights here and there. The best part of this cross though, is that it creates a chicken that lays huge eggs and lots of them. They start laying at around 5 months old, they lay almost every day, and will for sure lay through their first winter. They are very calm and like being around people. We were given 2 dozen of these chicks for a wedding present, and we have been raising them ever since! If you are looking for a great laying hen, then get your order in for some of these really productive and easy to keep hens. Check out the schedule of availability on our website. http://www.visionfarms.org/sex-link-pullets
As hard as it is to do, when a mother beef cow no longer can contribute to the herd, we have to cull her. We currently have a cow in that situation, so she will be butchered and made into ground beef. Older cows like this are not suitable for steaks and other tender cuts, but they do make really good ground beef! Youth promotes tenderness, but age promotes great beef flavor! The ground beef will be available mid December, in 1# packages, for $5.00/#. Our family of 7 generally goes through 4# per meal, with a few leftovers......sometimes. Three big boys and one growing one can really put away the food! Click on the link below, and get your order in while we still have plenty available! http://www.visionfarms.org/store/Grass-Fed-Ground-Beef-p96806945
Our last butcher day for 2017 here at Vision Farms, was this past Saturday. We still have some chicken available, so if you want to stock up for the winter, now is the time! We won't have fresh chicken available again until June of 2018. If you would like a sample chicken to try before you buy, please contact us by phone or email and we will get one to you. Buying meat is a big investment, and we want you to be confident in what you are buying. These chickens have been raised on non-GMO feeds, and have been on fresh, daily pasture since they were 3 weeks old. The fresh grass does wonders for the flavor and the level of nutrition these chickens will provide. Get your order in today!
