Cliff McConville
January Healthy Eating Newsletter
FARM HAPPENINGS We are excited to put 2020 behind us and look forward to a new, hopefully more normal year in 2021. As a livestock farm...
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Cliff McConville
- Dec 17, 2020
- 4 min
Healthy Eating Newsletter - Holiday Edition
FARM HAPPENINGS I was hopeful of getting a Thanksgiving newsletter out but with four fresh turkey pickup days the week before things got...
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Cliff McConville
- Oct 29, 2020
- 4 min
October Healthy Eating Newsletter
FARM HAPPENINGS We've had a super busy summer and early fall, and unfortunately I haven't been doing a good job keeping up with the...
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Cliff McConville
- Jul 25, 2020
- 4 min
July Healthy Eating Newsletter
FARM HAPPENINGS It's been crazy busy the last two months and we are a little short staffed, so I apologize for missing the June...
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Cliff McConville
- May 31, 2020
- 5 min
May Healthy Eating Newsletter
FARM HAPPENINGS We are finally getting a few nice, dry days after another record month of May rains (3rd year in a row). We have been...
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Cliff McConville
- Apr 30, 2020
- 5 min
April Healthy Eating Newsletter
FARM HAPPENINGS It's been a few weeks since my last post, which came at the beginning of the state shutdown for Covid-19. We've...
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Cliff McConville
- Mar 21, 2020
- 2 min
Dealing with Covid-19 on the Farm
In these challenging times, our role as local food producers is critical, and likely to become much more so during the next few months....
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Cliff McConville
- Mar 11, 2020
- 3 min
Our Journey into Farming (Part 2)
For Part 1 of the Journey click here... THE RANCH In spring of 2012, our little backyard farm business was growing rapidly, and to make...
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Cliff McConville
- Feb 29, 2020
- 4 min
February Healthy Eating Newsletter
FARM HAPPENINGS I am writing the February newsletter this week from beautiful La Crosse, Wisconsin where Anna and I are attending the...
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Cliff McConville
- Feb 20, 2020
- 5 min
Our Journey into Farming (Part 1)
Many of our farm visitors have asked over the years how we got into this crazy world of regenerative farming. Some of our loyal...
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Cliff McConville
- Jan 29, 2020
- 4 min
January Healthy Eating Newsletter
FARM HAPPENINGS Winter has finally settled into a more normal routine after a strange cold/snowy early fall and very warm December. Many...
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Cliff McConville
- Jan 18, 2020
- 4 min
New CSA Program for 2020
For the last seven years we have offered a vegetable CSA program (CSA stands Community Supported Agriculture) for our customers, and in...
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Cliff McConville
- Jan 3, 2020
- 3 min
Healthy Living Tips for the New Year
Like many of you, Anna and I are trying to live a healthier lifestyle in 2020. We are very fortunate to have our own homegrown...
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Cliff McConville
- Dec 22, 2019
- 5 min
December Healthy Eating Newsletter
FARM HAPPENINGS After the Halloween snowstorm and early November single digit cold snap we resigned ourselves to a long winter. However,...
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Cliff McConville
- Nov 26, 2019
- 5 min
Cooking a Pasture-Raised Turkey, Pie Update, a Special Thanks
We are now in the midst of our busiest week of the year. Turkey madness. Last year we raised about 350 turkeys for Thanksgiving, and...
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Cliff McConville
- Nov 16, 2019
- 2 min
Farm Happenings, New Piggies, and Thanksgiving Pie Poll
What we thought was a temporary cold spell and unusual October snowstorms seems to be settling in as a very early onset of winter, with...
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Cliff McConville
- Jun 13, 2019
- 2 min
Calf Concentration Camps
The images of animal abuse coming out of the Fair Oaks Farm undercover video were extremely disturbing. Many of our customers asked...
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Cliff McConville
- Mar 1, 2019
- 2 min
Whats wrong with cheap food 2?
Following up on my last post (hard to believe its been over a month already!). In looking for some data to validate the financial...
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Cliff McConville
- Jan 10, 2019
- 2 min
What's wrong with cheap food?
One of the most frequent comments we get in the farm store, usually from visitors passing by and not familiar with our farming practices,...
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Cliff McConville
- Dec 15, 2018
- 2 min
Bionutrient Meter - a game changer?
As mentioned in our December 2018 Farm newsletter, I am super excited about the new BioNutrient Meter developed by the Bionutrient Food...
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