My dream for Chestnut Hill Farm

 

Steers & Turkeys raised for meat.

Chicken raised for eggs & meat.

Sheep raised for wool and meat.

Goats raised for dairy products.

Bees kept for honey, beeswax & pollination.

Harvest the maple tree sap for syrup.

Keep various fruit trees & bushes for fruit.

Herbs for health & beauty.

Garden, garden, garden for produce!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



These are a few of our 17 steers & heifers we have now.  In October, Dan took four steers in for our customers and December 18th, he took in eight additional head of cattle in.  Thankfully, one of those sides of beef will end up in our freezer.  I've been out of ground beef for a while and only have 2 roasts & one pound of stew meat left.  Sunday, we will be enjoying the rump roast!

 

Five of the 17 are older and may be ready early summer.  The other 12 are young...and cute! and won't be finished until late fall, probably.  They are doing pretty well, considering the big ones like to push them out of the way when getting to the hay.  Dan is putting out two big round bales of hay at a time so they really do have enough room to spread out.  Now that we got more snow again, it's really easy to find and count the black steers against the white snow.  A very pretty sight, indeed!