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Happy summer! We hope you’ve been enjoying our grassfed goodness and organically grown veggies. Whether it's breakfast, lunch, or dinner, we love feeding you! Here on the farm, we have been busy with the abundance that summer gives us. We are grateful that our animals are healthy, for the rain and sunshine, and the good work we get to do every day. ** For our meat share members, regarding BEEF: We are using up the last of our inventory. in the past few months we have struggled to keep a variety of beef in your shares due to the slaughterhouses being adversely affected by COVID. However, we are overjoyed to announce that a brand-new certified humane USDA slaughterhouse has opened just 30 minutes from us! We will be stocking new beef into our freezers in mid-June that you will see in your July shares. This is all to say, please review your shares and swap to make sure you get what you want. All we have left in the beef freezer is large “family-sized” (4-6lb) packs of steaks (t-bone, ribeye, porterhouse), ground beef, and sausage. As we are a small farm, certain cuts will run out from time to time.
And, as a small farm, we are so thankful for each one of our members. Thank you all for bearing with us. We insure that you’ll be happy with the variety and quality of beef in the months to come!
For updates as far as vegetables, we have so many yummy food going into the ground and lots that are finally growing out!! Squash, tomatoes, and cucumbers will be making their appearance into your boxes. A lot of work goes into planting and growing all your food so be sure to give everything in your box a taste. You might realize you love something you had never even heard of! We'll see you all next week!
Don’t forget to leave it your freezer bag out, we'll reuse them to continue packing your meat!
And be sure to follow us on Instagram to keep up with all the new life happening on the farm
What's in the veggie box: Collards or broccoli leaves
Bunching Onions
Baby Beets
Dill
Baby Kale Mix
Head Lettuce
Italian Greens
Spinach
Cucumbers
Fennel
*The harvest list is always tentative. The garden decides what's in the box Weekly Nutrition Corner with HaLé Integrative Health
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About the farm
Caney Fork Farms is a 400 acre organic vegetable, multispecies livestock, and chestnuts agroforestry farm in the hills of Middle Tennessee. We raise cattle, sheep, and pigs using organic practices. Our livestock are grazed and fed in a way that is optimal to their health and quality of life. Subsequently, these practices improve the land and sequester carbon into the soil. Special attention is given to their rearing so that the final product that you take home is of the highest quality, leaving you satisfied and nourished. Our vegetables are certified organic.
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