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Farm Updates - Year-to-date we have had 46.72 inches of rain on our farm. That is 75% of our average annual. About 32 inches has fallen since the last week in April - with just shay of 10 inches this week. To say we are water logged is an understatement! Our farm has weathered the storms pretty good until this week. Unfortunately, with Tuesday's unexpected heavy rain we lost broiler chickens. We have three batches on pasture at this time. The batch we process next Tuesday faired pretty good with only 10 lost. The middle age batch had about 40 lost and the youngest batch lost was about 110 or over a third of the batch.
The cows, pigs, and hens have been okay. Unfortunately with the water logged pastures it does not take long for the cows & pigs to make a mess so we are moving them very fast. Thankfully, we have not received the 25 mph wind that was forecasted first of the week or there would have been a lot of trees down. In addition to the chicken losses we will have fences to repair and probably some pastures to replant.
The big row croppers in my area have it worse! They have not been able to plant most of their fields and the ones I have seen that were planted have about 40% flooded out. And, time is quickly running out for them to be able to plant the rest of their fields and still make a crop.
It has been a tough year stewarding the land and animals.
The end of May I made a request to our faithful customers to add some extra eggs, leg quarters, and sausages to their orders this month and boy did y'all respond! 😀
Leg quarters surpassed breast sales! Egg sales increased about 30%. And, we had a lot of customers buy our sausages to give them a try. We are grateful for your support. 🙏
Soil Health Principle 1 - Soil Armor. Last week I mentioned that Acres USA (the only magazine I read) had recently shared a five part series on Jay Fuhrer, NRCS from North Dakota, who was one of the first to define the five Soil Health Principles as a whole. Acres USA has given me permission to share these articles with my customer base starting this week. Knowing what Regenerative Farming is and is not is important as more customers and farmers convert to Regenerative Farming.
Unfortunately, they shared the articles as a PDF and the only way I know to include in my email writer is to scan them as a JPG file and add that way. Hope it works good for those interested.
 
An example from my farm. Several years ago we hosted a NCAT Farmer meeting here with Dr. Williams. One of the test he made was soil temperature. It was mid April. The outside air temp was 72 degrees. Allen took his infared temp gun and tested the loose gravel/dirt in front of my hay barn - temp was like 112 degrees. Next, he tested the soil temp in our yard where the grass was cut a few days earlier - temp was low 90's. Lastly, he went to some tall winter grass in our garden spot. Pulled back the canopy and took the temp- 68 degrees. Now, imagine what the temp would be like in the middle of June, July, or August! All areas except the garden spot would have been hot enough to kill soil biology..
Half-Beef Custom Processed Orders - JULY harvest order window is open. Last order date is Monday, June 22nd. Harvest will be June 30th. Availability will be about July 20th. Thanks 😉
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to check out our Custom Processing Ordering Tips, to place an order, and complete your individualized cut sheet. Please reply to this email with any questions.
And, when you buy a half or whole beef receive a Jarrard Meat Maximizer tenderizer at no extra charge. Jarrard is the choice of professional chefs and cooking enthusiasts for more than 40 years! The Meat Maximizer improves meat tenderness and texture, reduces marinating & cooking time, and is easy to clean and maintain.
Jana recently left us this ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Google Review "We’re on our fourth order of half beef. The quality and customer service is UNMATCHED. This is meat you can feel confident in knowing where it comes from and what it contains. We are so happy to know exactly what we’re feeding our family. We also love the eggs, sausage, and chicken!!! We’re so thankful for this farm and so thankful we get to enjoy gourmet food like this everyday."
Nature's Gourmet Farm product value proposition is to create a community that evolves around one of the most intrinsically important and critical needs of the ages, and that’s the provision of sustenance. That's our passion - to raise healthy animals to provide nutrient dense protein and saturated fat that nourish families and strengthens immune systems.
Our Beef is always grass finished with NO grains. Additionally, our animals are free of mRNA, GMO's (chemicals), Antibiotics, and Hormones. We ethically raise them on diverse forage pastures that regenerates our soils and protects our ecosystem.
Let me encourage you to "Be The Change" our food system needs by "Voting With Your Fork" at every meal.
** Product Availability Update **
NOTE: Restocks are made about 6 PM on the dates indicated below!
Chicken - Restocked June 10th. Next restock is June 24th
Turkey - Restocked April 22nd
Eggs - Restock each Tuesday prior to your delivery date.
Beef - Next restock is June 21st
Pork – Next restock was June 10th for fresh cuts. Next restock is June 21st for smoked cuts
Lamb - Restocked September 29, 2025
Custom Half or Whole Beef- Next Order Window for custom half & whole beef is TBD. Harvest will be TBD. Yes, I want to Order Custom Beef & Pork
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