Blog — Farm Life

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...

Utter Bliss~ Our cattle are pampered to the max. A-list celebrity typ’a deal, it’s their world, we’re just living in it. Setting is *crucial*. We start with sounds of Sade’s “smooth operator” to set the mood. Next, we rub lavender essential oil on their temples as we whisper sweet nothings into their ears. Oh, I should mention, they like their wheatgrass shots on the rocks, the dirtier the better. Once their cbd infused deep tissue massage is over, they take a biodynamic mud bath and are utterly blissed out. Who’s their Daddy? That’s when our head herdsman, Derek, wakes them...

Humane Farming Better for the Animals, Better for You, Better for the Earth We often think of biodynamic farming as chemical free, but did you know that biodynamic standards dictate farming is cruelty-free? Humane treatment of all farm animals is a requirement of biodynamic farming that is incredibly important, but often overlooked in articles on the methods. Biodynamic farming doesn’t look at animals as a means to a profitable end. Animals are a vital living force on a biodynamic farm and an important piece of the farm organism as a whole. Therefore, their health and well-being is considered with gravity...