This was video was brought to our attention recently and we felt it important to share with anyone interested in our farming beliefs. As supporters of farmers' rights to market their milk as being produced without the use of rBST, the consumers' rights to know exactly how their milk was produced and not fed some corporate line of manure, we whole-heartedly support the right for farmers to label their dairy products as being produced without the use of rBST. Thank you to the consumers of Pennsylvania and Governor Ed Rendell for supporting this right.
For a copy of Sandra's Presentation: Feeding the World In Your Community: Capturing the Ethnic Markets, click HERE.
Thank you to all our 2007 turkey customers for making our pastured-raised heritage birds a part of your holiday celebration.
She's here! This morning when I looked out into the pasture as the sun was rising, there were five animals instead of four. With Emma's due date of October 31st, that could only have meant one thing...she had calved a week early. And in the pouring rain, no less. But both cow & calf are in the barn and doing well. Thanks to the sexed-semen from Select Sire we purchased when Emma was artificially inseminated last January, the calf was a heifer.
Everything has sprouted in Ralph's fall garden. In a few weeks, look for fresh organically-grown greens at the Carlisle Central Farmers Market.
There was standing room only on September 22, 2007, when Sandra spoke at the Pennsylvania Renewable Energy & Sustainable Living Festival in Kempton, PA about how to turn your weeds into dollars with meat goats. She was even quoted in the coverage of the festival by Lancaster Farming. Click here to read the entire article. For those who were unable to attend, the presentation is available HERE.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15TH IS THE GRAND OPENING OF THE CARLISLE CENTRAL FARMERS MARKET LOCATED AT 117 NORTH HANOVER STREET IN DOWNTOWN CARLISLE, PENNSYLVANIA
Click HERE to watch us herd our heritage pastured turkeys from one area to another on YouTube.
Keep up to date with what's happening with us at Painted Hand Farm's blog. http://paintedhandfarm.blogspot.com/
Check out our new Veal Calf Page!
"Dixie" got to be the cover girl for the July/August issue of PASA's newsletter, PASSAGES, in which there was an article about the field day held at the farm in June. Click on the image to read the entire article.
Click HERE to read the article that appeared in the July 14th issue of Lancaster Farming's Foraging Around section.
Dotty Noble and Bob Ferguson wrote an article about the PASA Field Day held at Painted Hand Farm on June 20th and it appeared in Farm & Dairy. (Click on the image to read it.)
Article: Adding Value with Meat Goats in the May/June 2007 issue
Painted Hand Farm
provided a diary for The Way We Live in Farm &
Ranch Living magazine. Read the first half in the June/July 2007 issue and the
remainder online
here.
USDA Approved Label & Meat Cuts
Painted Hand Farm now offers USDA-certified goat and veal cuts for purchase. We have sold at local farmers markets as well as directly from the farm. Please check with us for availability. Our price list is available by clicking here.
Some of Sandra's articles recently published by The Rodale Institute's New Farm.
Book Review: Storey's Guide to Raising Meat Goats Click HERE to read it
Ethnic Goat Marketing Made Simple Click HERE to read it
A New Chance for an Old Farm Click HERE to read it
Keeping it Close to Home Click HERE to read it
Reader Mail Comments Click HERE to read it
Click HERE to download Sandra's presentation, Tapping Into Ethnic Markets, from PASA's 2007 Farming for the Future Conference.
Click HERE to download Sandra's presentation, Meat Goat Production, from the 2006 Pennsylvania Renewable Energy & Sustainable Living Festival in Kempton, PA.
