February 2024 Newsletter

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, […]

October 2023 Newsletter

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

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 […]

June 2023 Newsletter

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 […]

April 2023 Newsletter

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 […]

In Thanksgiving

There was a time in our history when we were simply thankful for food.  As a pioneer in this country, if you had your belly full you were pretty well satisfied and likely didn’t have a care over what kind of food you had eaten or where it came from.  Back then, we were much […]

September 2022 Newsletter

New Products and Products on Sale Building on the popularity of our recently introduced “Mild Italian Pork Patty”, we are now making a “Garlic Pork Patty.” Most of you seem to prefer the larger 6 oz. burgers, so we are preparing them in this format – 3 / package, at $9.00/lb. You can order a […]

“Grass Farming” – More Important than you think

June is the month when it really shines!  The method of production that we use here at Zettel Family Farms is often referred to as ”Pasture based livestock production” or more simply “grass farming”.  This year, for the first time, we had no spring seeding to do in the fields.  All of the land is […]

January 2022 newsletter

Zettel Family Farms  Certified Organic Grass-fed Beef, Pastured Pork and Chicken Chepstow, Ontario, Canada To Order, Call Ted @ 519-881-8773 or email ted.zettel@gmail.com. Order online at zettelfamilyfarms.ca/storefront   Happy New Year! All the Zettel family sends to you our hope that 2022 brings you peace!  We want to thank all of you who make this farming adventure […]