Jase took over the camera
I was moving hay on the tractor, so I handed the camera to Jase, and he did a great job. Check our YouTube channel to see what’s been happening on the farm.
Samuel says we have a roller coaster in the pasture
Maybe we do, but you can see for yourself in our latest YouTube video. We are getting some questions about our beef and pig shares for 2020. Make sure you are on our email list so you won’t miss out! Sign up over here >>> http://tinyurl.com/y6awcwg9 Like, comment, subscribe…and enjoy!
Why was our farm store closed Saturday?
We answer that question in our latest YouTube video. You can watch it here.
It was 43º this morning…VLOG Episode 17
Yes, we are going to make a go at becoming YouTubers…scary
Out of stock?
Yes, our regular customers know this, but occasionally we are out of certain products, so what are we out of right now? Whole chickens and pork sausage. Sausage always goes fast, but we still have bacon, center-cut pork chops, and Boston butts. As a farmer, I hate to be out of anything in the Farm Store, but it happens and I have to get over it. Our next whole chickens will be available in the Farm Store on November 30. Read More
Temple Grandin
We watched Temple Grandin last night on Amazon Prime (it’s free). I learned about her a couple months ago after my friends Tony and Betsy Brown (Longview Farms) told me they were going to hear her speak along with Joel Salatin at Polyface Farm in Swoope, VA. What an amazing woman. Her autism allows her to see everything in pictures, and the movie does a great job of describing it. There are so many special gifts God gives us inside Read More
Mechanical vs Physical
I do my best thinking during morning chores, and so I wanted to share a thought from this morning: In the mechanical world, there is a human designer and the machine does whatever it is designed to do, but it finds no joy in its work and it never gets tired (my favorite machine is our John Deere tractor with front-end loader). In the physical world, there is also a designer, but He is not human. The big problem in Read More
How is the farm doing?
What started out as a better way to feed our family has turned into a better way to feed our community. Access to local, pasture-raised meats can be an issue for many people, and so we are glad to be able to provide meats that were raised using regenerative practices. We have been doing this for four years now, and we have met so many great people; people whom we would have never met had we not been offering our Read More
Meet the farmer
My name is Jason Pope, and this my wife Karen (photo credit @sixberryfarm). We live on and farm land that has been in my family for four generations, so yes, we have deep roots here. We started farming in the Spring of 2011 with the purchase of our first four cows. Then sometime in early 2014, my pastor’s wife gave me a book title “You Can Farm” by Joel Salatin. I had never heard of Joel Salatin, but once I Read More