Jacksons' Folly

IMHO a well-deserved week off.

Merry Christmas from the Everglades! Uh, I mean southeastern PA.

I just finished putting up about 30 feet of wind break for the sheep ahead of tomorrow's expected heavy snowfall. The snow will be coming from the southwest and the wind from the northeast where there are NO tree lines to block it. There's a 100% chance of snow. There's a 75% chance the sheep will have chewed holes in the tarps before the snow starts tomorrow.

A frosty breakfast this morning. #sheep

A farmer's bonus when customers "don't want the bones" with their lamb. #bonebroth #lamb

All ready for the Bryn Athyn Craft Crawl!

This is what our present food system brings you. Corruption, bribery, price fixing. Go small and go home (with your purchases from a local farmer). https://www.reuters.com/a/us-j-f-brazil-crime-idUSKBN26Z2FZ

Our first Turkey egg of the year.

This bunch will definitely be ready for Thanksgiving!

Although the rest of this article will be relatively (or completely) uninteresting to most people, I thought this piece of tangential information interesting: "Recently, domestic consumption of lamb has explosively increased with the popularization of Chinese restaurants. According to the report of Raes et al. (2004), lamb has an ideal fatty acid profile and has a larger amount of long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids than that of beef." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6238029/

We beat the groundhogs to these two.

Can you guess who is anxious to try the greener grass on the other side of the fence?

I love the smell of freshly stocked hay when I enter the shed in the morning.

Not that I think many of you are eating duck blood curds, but... https://www.fsis.usda.gov//ne/archive/2020/pha-09042020-01

Come see us at Pennypack Farmers' Market at the Lord's New Church. 1725 Huntingdon Rd., Huntingdon Valley, PA

Poults out on pasture. In a few weeks they'll be out of the tractor.