Nov 9, 2022
Family Farms are Dying?
Is the family farm dying? My blog post, Get Back to Your Roots, introduced the idea that the general public is less connected to farms...
Nov 1, 2022
The Superhero of Our Family
'Behind every good man is a great woman,' the old cliché says. If that quote ever applied to anyone, it applied to my grandmother,...
Oct 17, 2022
We're not raising corn
As a small child, I spent a lot of time with my Great-Uncle Tom Barr. He, along with my grandfather, started our farm in the 1940s. As...
Oct 3, 2022
Get Back to Your Roots
Sometimes it just hits me how not normal the life I lead is. This past weekend I helped my friend Tim purchase and pick up his very...
Sep 26, 2022
Farm to Table Food Safety
I've occasionally encountered a potential customer who is a little hesitant to buy direct from a farmer because they believe that there...
Sep 19, 2022
What is aged beef?
No doubt you've heard of aged beef. Usually fancier restaurants will tout their beef as 'aged for X days' or 'dry aged' or 'wet aged'. ...
Sep 9, 2022
What's in a name?
What exactly is a vegetarian fed chicken egg? The thought occurred to me while I was making breakfast last weekend. We have our own...
Sep 2, 2022
Technology on the Farm
For decades any animal feeding on the farm was done with shovels or buckets. The cattle use about 3,000 pounds of feed per week, which...
Aug 22, 2022
The poor misunderstood pork chop
I sell a lot of pork chops, but I still have customers that ask to substitute them for something else, anything ese, in a bundle because...
Aug 13, 2022
Economics 101: Farm to Table Edition
My in-laws live outside Indianapolis and previously lived in Chicago. Every time they visit, they fill their insulated bag with items...
