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Half Beef Orders – As a final reminder, our next custom whole or half beef will be October 7th. Inventory has been added to our website for your order and deposit. You can place your order and find the cut sheet at this link. Your order will be processed and packed about October 21-22nd and ready for pickup by October 27th.
Price will be the same as September at $6.25 per pound based on the hanging weight. We have two halves left for this processing so if you are interested let me encourage you to order early. What Makes A Farmer - I spent my 8th through 12th grade on the land that I now farm. We had a few cows, yard chickens, and a garden. I also helped several other farmers who row cropped. Between late 1975 until 2009 I had little exposure to "farming" outside of raising a garden.
When I inherited most of the farm after my Dad passed away from cancer in 2009, I remember taking some steers to the stockyard. Later, extension agent advice said I needed to add all these inputs. That left no money to live on! So, I started looking for "a better way". My journey led me to the Stockman Grass Farmer, Joel Salatin, The Grassfed Exchange, and a whole new and big world of opportunity from seasoned pioneers. Beth and I visited a lot of different farms that were farming like we are now farming. Obviously, there is much more to the story.
I bring this up because we hear a lot about conventional farms of all sizes that are in trouble financially. Many are older folks who have worked hard all their life and are now at risk of losing, in many cases, their multi-generational family farm. That breaks my heart!
How do you get these folks to change? When you keep doing the same thing (following advice from the same sources) expecting to get different results is crazy. I am seeing politicians in Mississippi also meeting with the same folks that only offer the same solutions that put us where we are today - 98% of the food consumed in Mississippi is NOT grown in Mississippi. That is a tremendous risk to our citizens and takes away income from our farmers.
In 2016 there was a report that said Mississippi imported $8.5 billion dollars per year in food. That is greater than our total ag industries of which 80% plus is not even human food. $8.5 billion spread across Mississippi's 82 counties would equal $103.6 million per Mississippi county. How many farms per county could make a living wage growing food people actually eat vs. imported from who knows where? Folks, I believe there is opportunity for farmers who want to "RETOOL" their farms, but they must change their thinking or mind-set. That starts by changing who you listen to - that is how I came up with my 4 rules and weeded out the "noise" that did not support my objectives.
That is why I included the link to Joel Salatin's article about what it takes to Make A Farmer. There were only 19 clicks to open the link (and I expect most folks opened the link more than once), so I will include again - maybe you or someone you know could benefit and possibly save their farm.
Six points for aspiring farmers from an article by Joel Salatin that I have kept and read many times. I trust these basics will help reduce the risk of failure as well as weed out misconceptions about what it takes to Make A Farmer. You can read the complete article here.
#1 Check your motive
#2 What are you doing now?
#3 Get experience
#4 Grow everyman food
#5 Offer variety
#6 Equity in everything except land
Tippens Protocol - have you heard of the Tippens Protocol? I had not until I read an article from Epoch Health titled "How One Cancer Survivor Triggered Interest in Repurposed Anto-Parasitic Drugs."
Joe Tippens, an Oklahoma businessman, had undergone chemotherapy and radiation for small-cell lung cancer in 2016 only to learn in 2017 that his cancer had progressed and he had three months to live. Through a veterinarian he knew he learned about a scientist who had cured herself using fenbendazole, an animal antiparasitic drug. Believing he had nothing to lose he started taking the drug three days per week. After three months Tippens was cancer-free.
The article discusses a lot of research, articles, case studies, etc. about the use of fenbendazole and other similar drugs, but I'll leave you with this quote from the article: "Fenbendazole affects energy metabolism-mainly by increasing the levels of p53 and affecting pathways that control sugar uptake. It ultimately starves cancer cells and causes them to die with minimum harm to normal cells."
You can read and consider the full article here. Obviously I am not a doctor and am only sharing an interesting story for folks to read.
At Nature's Gourmet Farm, our intent is to create a community that evolves around one of the most intrinsically important things of the ages, and that’s the provision of sustenance. That's our passion - to raise healthy food to nourish families and strengthen 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 the 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 September 10th. Next restock September 24th
Turkey - Have poults arrived July 10th, August 20th, and September 17th. Additionally, Thanksgiving whole turkeys are on order for late October delivery. Look for pre-order notice NLT mid October
Eggs - Restocked each Tuesday prior to your delivery date.
Beef - Restocked August 24th. Next restock will be September 21st
Pork – Restocked September 10th. Cured items September 21st. Next restock October 8th
Lamb - Restocked March 27th. Next Restock will be September 29, 2025
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