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 […]
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 […]
One word sums it up: SNOW! Items currently on sale “In the bleak mid-winter, Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron,Water like a stone;Snow had fallen, snow on snow,Snow on snow,In the bleak mid-winter Long ago.” This opening stanza from “A Christmas Carol” (Christina Rosetti) fits the bill as I look out my front door […]
Orders Galore We have had a surge of orders this fall, causing us to run short of some products. For us, this is a good problem. It’s a problem, because we are committed to the very best service for our customers. We strive to fill every order promptly. When one of the items on an […]
Clearance Sale! Big Discount on chicken drums and bone- in thighs. As most of you are aware, our chickens are raised on pasture in the summer in movable hutches where they get fresh grass twice a day. Since we like to eat chicken all year round, that means we must estimate the amounts of each […]
Mud Everywhere! It’s March, and the only sign so far that spring is on it’s way is that the snow seems to be (mostly) gone. And in its place, we have mud! Our pigs spend a lot of time indoors unless the sun comes out on these dreary days, and the cattle would prefer to […]
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 […]
Farm Tour On July 16th Zettel Family Farms co-hosted a farm tour, in cooperation with Star Seeds Acres, the organic produce farm and farm store operated by Kevin and Lauren Voisin. About 150 of you, our customers, plus neighbours and friends joined us for an afternoon of touring the two farms, culminating in a barbecue […]