Potential Thanksgiving Cooking Class

Learn how to reduce your intake of additives, preservatives, and unnecessary sugar by attending a class on how to cook four Thanksgiving meal classic items from scratch!

1. Bread Stuffing

2. Brown Gravy

3. Traditional Cranberry Sauce and Fermented Cranberry Chutney

4. Sweet Potato Pie with Crust and Whipped Cream

It’s amazing how simple, delicious, and healthful these complementary menu items can be for your… ... Continue reading | 2 Comments

The Price of An Egg

Lots of folks ask us about why our egg prices are so high. We get lots of different responses when we tell them. Sometimes they are offended. Sometimes they lament over how they cannot afford them. Sometimes they are utterly grateful that someone somewhere close by is raising hens truly on pasture, without using soy or genetically-engineered ingredients.

It doesn’t really hurt our feelings when people don’t want to… ... Continue reading | 10 Comments

What do Farmers do on a Friday night?

A typical Friday night here at Shady Grove Ranch is usually set apart by some special food or drink and the general merriment that comes with the end of a week filled with hard work, long days, and more than could be accomplished by our small team of four people plus two (little) kids. But last Friday night, after the meal of homemade pork

How we do Soy-Free Pasture-Raised Eggs

At long last, we finally have a chance to tell you about our new EggMobile, built during the visit of some of our relatives that visit each spring to help us with ongoing work projects.

Laying chickens have very specific and unique needs that must be fulfilled in order for them to live long, productive and happy lives. One… ... Continue reading

The Feed & Breed Experiment

A major component of successful sustainable farming is figuring out what strategy works best in your climate for which animals. Pastured poultry is one of the most difficult and unpredictable aspects of our operation here at Shady Grove Ranch. Everything loves to eat chicken: people, owls, skunks, dogs, coyotes, snakes, foxes… Only the first on that list are… ... Continue reading

It’s Turkey Time!

July seems like an odd time to start talking about Thanksgiving, but it’s the time when we order the baby turkeys (called “poults”) to start growing them in time for the November harvest! We’ll grow you a turkey, too, if you would like. They are raised like our chickens: totally on pasture without medications or growth stimulants, and supplemented by a non-soy, non-GMO feed. They live their lives rotated across… ... Continue reading