Instinctive Behavior
When we open the portable net fencing to move our poultry to fresh pasture, turkeys move across the field in a terrestrial murmuration, whereas the
The Little Beans That Could
By all rights, the green, purple, yellow and dragon tongue stringless beans in the driveway field should be black and withered from last weekend’s frosty
Beef: Less is More
More calves are born in Kentucky every year than in any other state east of the Mississippi River. Elmwood Stock Farm contributes about 60 of
Turkey Season
The noticeably shorter days post-equinox lead me to think about fall holidays and our turkeys, as they’re nearly ready for harvest, and we’re already taking
Eat Like Your Farmer
At Elmwood Stock Farm right now, we are aggressively sowing lettuce, spinach and cooking greens in an attempt to have them available well into winter—if
Sheep, Pigs & the Top 10 Things
To get back to our farm tour series, traipsing east from this year’s vegetable field along “John T’s field” (John T. was a friendly neighbor
Twenty Years In: Celebrating a new brand and a new website
We packed to the brim the maroon bread truck on that bright, sunny September Friday afternoon some 20-plus years ago, ready for a big day
Pastured-Poultry Myths
Elmwood Stock Farm offers wholesome, organic food year-round, but as Mac explained earlier, some of the livestock we raise on the farm is seasonal. Our
Growing Your Vegetables: Farm Tour, Part 4
Stepping away from the greenhouses, high tunnels and intensive-greens beds that we looked at in last week’s farm tour, we will look south and west
Year-Round Seeds to Greens, Part 3 of the Virtual Farm Tour
For part three of our Elmwood Stock Farm tour, we’ll leave behind the cattle field and turn to see the cluster of clear plastic quonset
Elmwood Stock Farm Tour, Part 2
To continue last week’s farm tour, walking west away from the lunch area, past the billowy white pines sheltering the homes where ‘the guys’—our farm
Elmwood Stock Farm Tour, Part 1
Walking to the high tunnels and baby greens field this morning, my thoughts turned to what I would be interpreting had there been a tour
Corn, Sweet Corn
Happy first day of organic Elmwood Stock Farm sweet corn! This is a celebration on the farm each year because sweet corn season is short
Meet Our Wooly Mammals
Shearing sheep is a lost art, mostly because it is hard work. Over the last 20 years, we have been dependent on these craftsmen (every
The Sounds of Nature
COVID-19 gave me something I thought I’d never witness while standing on Elmwood Stock Farm: the sounds of nature, no man-made noise of any kind.
Natural Cohabitation
Just outside the front door of our little on-farm store is a barn swallow nest. The location comes with much consternation to the breeding pair,
Loading the Larder
I’ll cut to the chase here but hope you’ll continue reading beyond: Chicken, pork and sausages are back in stock, and there’s more to come.
Remaking the Food System
Having never been thrust into a global pandemic before, I can’t say for sure, but it seems to me that we have the opportunity to
How to Grow Food in Spring 2020
The calendar says mid-May, but the farm feels like mid-March. We were sorely tested last weekend with a record-setting, below-freezing, nighttime temps. This was a
Not Your Grocer’s Chicken
The first batch of broiler chickens came back from the processor this week, merely eight weeks after they arrived at Elmwood Stock Farm via the
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