Happy Thanksgiving! We hope you’re enjoying this beautiful early October weather as much as we are. Summer is definitely wrapping up here, our last batch of chickens will go to the butcher on Monday, and then into our new freezer for sale over the winter! Coming soon is an enclosure where we will be offering […]
Descriptors on food labels or in promotional ads range from downright deceptive, to practically meaningless, to credible but imperfect. … If the words used to differentiate a product have no legal definition, then you, as the potential buyer of that product, are relying on the honesty or integrity of the people behind the label.
Zettel Family Farms is a pasture based organic livestock farm. All of our roughly 200 acres of workable land is devoted to grazing for the pigs, chickens and cattle, or the production of hay to feed cattle over winter. The grain that we need for pigs and chickens is purchased from other organic farms, as […]
Spring has sprung! The mountains of snow that accumulated in Bruce county in one of the most severe winters in decades, disappeared in short order here on the farm. Early March saw unseasonably high temperatures uncovering the land and setting up for an early pasture season. As I write, on the first of May, (International […]
An early spring or a late winter? Happy (late) New Year! Ted wrote a great article looking back at 2023 and forward to 2024. You can read the article on our website, but we didn’t post it here because… well, it’s February! Products You Should Try Maple Ham We started making this late last year, […]
Give thanks! Thanksgiving weekend, that “end of summer ritual” which seems so very far away when we are immersed in planting and preparation for the growing season sneaks up on you! Can it be here already? Another growing season, the hopeful time of putting seeds in the ground, the hard labour of harvesting in the […]
Give thanks! Thanksgiving weekend, that “end of summer ritual” which seems so very far away when we are immersed in planting and preparation for the growing season sneaks up on you! Can it be here already? Another growing season, the hopeful time of putting seeds in the ground, the hard labour of harvesting in the […]
For the Love of Farming When I go out each morning, shortly after sunrise, to give the cattle their morning allotment of fresh grass, I am convinced that what we do here on our farm is good, and that we need to keep on doing it. The cows are in their glory, knee deep in […]
So done with snow That’s right. Snow! Last week, the first week of Easter, we were finishing up maple syrup and cutting wood, sweating and getting our first sunburn of the summer as the temperature hit 27 degrees Celsius. Some of us even took advantage of the unseasonable heat to try for a rare, April […]
Ted opines on what an odd year 2022 was, and how we can learn from it.