It’s All Organic
When people talk about organic food, so often it’s just vegetables and crops that come to mind. Animals managed under organic systems have their own
October 1, 2016
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When people talk about organic food, so often it’s just vegetables and crops that come to mind. Animals managed under organic systems have their own
When farm guests arrive to tour Elmwood Stock Farm, they see our large, rectangular, darker-green alfalfa fields, lots of grass, a few vegetables, and some
Even before grass-fed beef was cool, the cattle at Elmwood Stock Farm ate very little grain. The cattle that the Bell kids took to shows
As the first few cool mornings have welcomed us to fall, we are grateful, especially after such a long, hot, wet summer growing season. Now
There is an actual biological basis for why grass-fed meat and dairy has more omega-3 fatty acids. Cattle have four stomachs for a reason, just
Through our newsletter, our farm tours and our everyday conversations, we are dedicated to informing our customers about the value of consuming organic foods. We describe
A plant variety that has been produced through selective breeding is referred to as a cultivar. Let’s take garlic, for example. There are hundreds of
Most of you seasoned local foodies know the names of certain varieties of vegetables you like. Peaches and Cream sweet corn and Black Krim or
There are so many reasons to raise animals as they were meant to be raised, outdoors and on pasture, not confined to a warehouse-like building
The words fecundity and fertility are often confused, but there is a subtle difference. Fecundity is the ability of an animal or insect to produce offspring. Species
It’s hard to imagine how many thousand species of bugs there are that call Elmwood Stock Farm home. Only a handful would be considered pests,
Cattle have been a part of this farm’s story since the early 1930s, when members of the Bell family first worked land in Scott County.