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| NO PESTICIDES! NO HERBICIDES! NO KIDDING! |
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| A little extra work never killed anybody! Chemicals however......... |
Our Family Farming History
began back in 1726.
Randy's Great Grandfather (X8), Johannes
- was born in Silesia (Eastern Germany) in 1684. Johannes, his wife & 3 children, left Saxony,
Germany on April 20th, 1734 aboard the ship St. Andrew, mastered by Captain John Stedman.
They landed in the "New World" at Philadelphia on Sept. 22nd, 1734.
Eventually Johannes and his wife settled our families first "New World" family farm near Society
Run in Frederick Twsp., Montgomery County, Pennsylvania in 1743.
Johannes died from head injuries a few years later, after falling off the back of a hay
wagon. He was our first ancestor burried at a Mennonite cemetery in "The New World"
PIG Farming was our families specialty for 8 generations (until the mid1950's).
Since then alot has changed. Our Families farm location and livestock has evolved to include 100% Grass-fed Registered Red Angus & BEEFALO, Pastured Yorkshire
& Heritage Breed DUROC Pig's and Free-ranged Plymouth Barred Rock Hen's.
Our Sustainably maintained
40 acre Family Farm is comprised of 20 acres of rotational pasture/paddocks, 1.5 acres in tillable cropland, 6 acres of CRP,
and chemical-free alfalfa and mixed grass hay on the balance 12 acres. In April of 2008, we
started our "RE-IMPLIMENTATION" of Feeder Pig's to our farm's "Grass-fed/Pastured" operation that we purchased from local breeders at 6 weeks of age (post weaned). In
September of 2009 (due to the inconsistancy/availablity of DUROC feeder pigs in our area and our normal supplier
discontinuing production), we decided to start Breeding our own Heritage DUROC PIG Herd.
Our first litter is due in late May of 2010.
Our ancestors produced "All-natural" pork since the 1700's, because let's face it, back than EVERYTHING
WAS ALL NATURAL! On a small scale FAMILY FARM such as
our's, it's easy to care for all our animals and crops by avoiding the use of chemical's. Our Pastured DUROC Pigs are
supplimented with Pure Corn and Oat chop. THAT'S IT! No vitamins, minerals, additives etc.
The chop kind of looks like saw dust with cracked corn in it. We add a little water
to the chop to make it more palitable and less likely to be inhaled in a dry state which could cause respiratory problem's.
It's kind of like the last time you had a funnel cake at your local county fair and accidently
inhaled the confectionary sugar while eating the funnel cake! Not too pleasant huh?
Agriculture is the most healthful,
most useful and most noble
employment of man.
- George Washington
| July 1st, 1890 at the Young/Kuhn Family Farm |
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| The gentelman in the photo is Randy's Great, Great Grandfather Henry |
Since 2001 our current family-farm/ranch has been based on diversity and Organic
based ecological health/Sustainability.
Since 2001 we've grown 3 varieties of Sweet Corn (silver queen, kandy korn, sugar &
cream, and we even try pop corn from time to time. Since 2004 we've only planted Sh2 (super sweet)
bi-color sweet corn. WOW! What a difference! Taste & Price of seed!
Beefsteak, Cherry & Plum Tomato's are planted annually and our customers can't get enough "BIG
boy's" for those summertime tomato sandwhich's or our (Soon to be), World famous 100% Grass-fed BEEF
Burgers! Spinach, Boccoli, Red Potato's, Red & Green Sweet bell Peppers, Romaine
Lettuce & Jack O' lantern pumpkins generally round out the remainder of our annual crop's. A complete
list of next seasons crops can be seen on our "2010 CROPS" page.
Back in 2003 (when we were still in Berks County, PA), we began looking
into "grazing" BEEFALO,
our neighbor/farmer/mentor HARVEY MUTH (who taught Me/Randy everything
I know about farming), suggested the Northern tier of PA as a nice place for us to start our
100% Grass-fed BEEFALO farming/ranching
operation.
After looking at 32 farm's in Montana, Arkansas, Idaho, New York and Pennsylvania, we found, bought, and
settled at our current farming destination, in Springfield twp., Bradford County, PA on July 31st, 2006.
Harvey was right!! It's beautiful country in North/East
PA. And best of all, Our entire farm is gentely rolling to FLAT!
NO MORE Berks County Mountain side farming! There's NO slateheads or shale either! The soils are a mix of
Morris channery silt loam, Volusia channery silt loam & Chippewa silt loam with 0 - 8% slopes. Basically it's very
heavy CLAY with ROCK'S! Our average annual precipitation is around 35". We average 165 Frost-Free Days.
HARVEY J. MUTH is no longer with us, he went to be with our Lord
after 65 years on this earth.
Harvey passed away peacefully in his sleep,
Saturday August 22nd, 2009.
Harvey was a life long self employed farmer on his own farm in Kempton,
PA since 1976, prior to that, he farmed his parents farm in upper Macungie Township. He was an avid deer hunter and
outdoorsman who loved nature and making people laugh, especially when we were putting hay in his barn while he tried
to teach us silly song's in Pennsylvania Dutch.
Harvey is thought of daily on our farm because without his teaching and
guidence we wouldn't be where we are today. We love you and miss you greatly Harvey!!
We know he's smiling down on us and our animals.
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