By admin on February 4, 2012
Photo Post: Our turkeys are raised with fresh air, loving care and respect for their inner turkeyness.
Posted in Chickens & Other Poultry, Excerpt Homepage, Farm Blog | Tagged Animal Welfare Approved, Cane Creek Farm, Farm Intern, Turkey
By admin on February 3, 2012
Photo Post: These cute little guys are newly hatched and just one day old. Did you know that baby turkeys are called poults?
Posted in Chickens & Other Poultry, Excerpt Homepage, Farm Blog | Tagged Cane Creek Farm, poults, Turkeys
By admin on February 2, 2012
Photo Post: Sheep enjoying a tasty mineral treat… so much so that they climbed into the feeder.
Posted in Excerpt Homepage, Farm Blog, Sheep | Tagged Cane Creek Farm, Mineral Feeder, Sheep
By admin on December 15, 2011
Eliza recently had had the opportunity to meet up with fellow farmer Suzanne Nelson of Cozi Farm, chef Jeff Barney of the Saxapahaw General Store and The Eddy, filmmaker Graham Meriwether and Frank Stacio of National Public Radio to discuss how meat is raised in America. The discussion centers around the new documentary American Meat, [...]
Posted in Excerpt Homepage, Farm Blog, News, Press | Tagged Audio, Cozi Farm, Frank Stacio, Graham Meriwether, Jeff Barney, NPR, Radio, Saxapahaw General Store, Suzanne Nelson, The Eddy, The Sate of Things
By admin on December 15, 2011
(L-R Chef Jeff Barney of the Saxapahaw General Store & The Eddy Pub, farmer V. Mac Baldwin of Baldwin Beef, farmer Suzanne Nelson of Cozi Farm, filmmaker Graham Meriwether, farmer Johnny Glosson of Glosson Farm, farmer Eliza MacLean of Cane Creek Farm, farmer Kim Griffin, and Casey McKissick of NC Choices. Photo courtesy of Sarah [...]
Posted in Events, Excerpt Homepage, Farm Blog, Featured | Tagged American Meat, Baldwin Beef, Cane Creek Farm, Casey McKissick, Cozi Farm, Documentary, Eliza MacLean, Glosson Farm, Graham Meriwether, Jeff Barney, Johnny Glosson, Kim Griffin, NC Choices, Panel Discussion, Saxapahaw General Store, Suzanne Nelson, The Eddy Pub, V. Mac Baldwin
By admin on December 15, 2011
DECEMBER NEWSLETTER We hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving! Christmas is just around the corner but by the looks of things here you’d wonder if it was springtime—babies are everywhere. We have an abundance of piglets, with more on the way and so far five lambs on the ground with another dozen or more [...]
Posted in Excerpt Homepage, Farm Blog, Farm Newsletter, News
By zigelbaum on April 16, 2011
Some people ask me if small farms can produce enough food to feed the world. Asking this question lets me know they’ve already been inoculated with the idea that they can’t. The current industrial food system is good at messaging, and they’ve been successful in proliferating this misconception. In addition, I’m not alone in my [...]
Posted in Farm Blog, Nick's Blog, Staff Blogs | Tagged Nick Zigelbaum, Staff Blog
By admin on March 24, 2011
It’s pretty funny how a few nice days can lift the spirits of people and animals alike. It may not last, but it’s enough to get us through… We hope everyone had a nice valentines day, full of pasture-raised meat products and romance. Here’s the farm happenings: The aminals: We’ve hatched some baby ducks, and [...]
Posted in Excerpt Homepage, Farm Blog, Farm Newsletter
By on January 25, 2011
Two new piglets scooped up over the weekend. The weather is pretty chilly and an old sow that might become sausage pretty soon had a rough go at farrowing in the middle of the night. She had 6 pigs and only two were left alive after the first 24 hours. I popped them in my [...]
Posted in Farm Blog, Nick's Blog, Pigs, Staff Blogs | Tagged Nick Zigelbaum, Staff Blog
By admin on January 7, 2011
Come visit us between 10am and 4pm. Have some hot cider, tour the farm, meet some of our animals. Be sure to bring along a cooler so you can stock up on our delicious, healthy, farm raised meats discounted up to 40%!
Posted in Events, Farm Blog