Blog — Farm Life

Keeping a Close Watch. I take great pride in raising animals that are given the utmost love and respect. We raise animals that are healthy for our farmland and our community. Earlier this year, we had a tough situation hit a portion of our herd. Twenty-eight of our steers and heifers (out of a herd of 475) that are to be finished and processed in 2021 and the first quarter of 2022 came down with pneumonia. Our head herdsman, Derek, noticed it immediately and took all the necessary precautions. We separated out the sick animals and kept a close watch....

Signs of Spring on the Farm. Spring at the farm is a truly magical time. After a long, hard winter, it's such a joy to see familiar, smiling faces again in the fields. The flower girls are waiting for their tulips to pop any moment, Pavel is harvesting wintered vegetables, Jared and Josh are getting ready for their first shipment of baby birds, and we are running to see the baby lambs at any available moment. The air is crisp, the sun is warm, and spirits are high. The energy is tangible as we gather in the green house to...

Day in the Life of Delilah. Hello, I’m Deliliah and I live here at Foxhollow. I have brown eyes, auburn hair, and I’m one year and three quarters old. I weigh about 980 lbs. I know...I’m a little on the smaller side for my age. That’s me. This farm is nearly 1300 acres big and I’ve seen most of it in my short life. You’d think seeing pastures of grass for days wouldn’t be that interesting, but for us cattle, it’s like an all-you-can eat smorgasbord every day. Every morning, the Cattle Man brings around our mineral feeder buffet. It...

Foxhollow Farm: This is the Why. It’s barely 6am as the first tendrils of pink-tinged light break across dewey fields, illuminating spiderwebs suspended in the grass. The cattle wake, shaking out their legs to start their simple day of grazing the pastures. Birds have just responded to warmth as the sun begins to peek into the lush green garden, bursting with tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, and basil. The barn cats stretch and wait impatiently for their breakfast. The trees are heavy with overnight precipitation and slow, joyful anticipation of the dawn. Our team at Foxhollow has been working on perfecting WHAT...