Valhalla Farm and life

Farm

Dairy cow and Steers: Respectfully, lovingly raised - Free range, but not totally grass-fed and not yet organically certified  - They like occasional corn and love loaves of bread for a snack - What can we say? It all started with feeding the pigs, then the steers demanding their own (or stealing it!) Now everybody gets bread when there is excess and everybody's happy. It makes for some tasty milk and tender meat, too!

We will be sowing wild flax seed this Fall, along with Barley in other fields to grow natural, high protein feed for the cows, steers, chickens and pigs - Becoming more self-sufficient and more healthy, staying away from corn altogether! In addition to kelp supplements for the dairy, it should be all they need for optimum health and growth!

Pigs: Zsa Zsa and Eva were butchered on May 19, 2012. I miss my girlies! They will be sweet, juicy and yummy, raised on lots of milk! They dressed out at over 260 and 350 pounds! They were raised on lots of milk, a little corn, bread, whey, cookies kitchen scraps and feed.

Hens and eggs:

We now have farm fresh brown eggs for sale from our free-range hens! Extra Large and Jumbo! $2.00 a dozen - with color/taste that you won't find at the grocery store! I just love our fluffy-butts!

Twenty five more chicks were acquired as future layers!

Veggies

Just started planting the garden...Sweet corn, sugar beets, snap peas, beans, carrots, radishes, onions and potatoes.

Since I killed most of my seedlings, I'll be buying sets of tomatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, etc. to plant.

Healthy organic compost:

Getting some well-rotted sawdust and mixing it with our compost, cow poo, pig poo and fish guts. As soon as it has completed its composting cycle, we'll hopefully have some for your garden, too!!