Stith Family Farms

I've occasionally encountered a potential customer who is a little hesitant to buy direct from a farmer because they believe that there may be inadequate safeguards protecting them in comparison to grocery store meats. Actually, there are a very specific list of rules for farms who wish to sell direct to consumers. While you may occasionally see a rouge Facebook post from someone trying to skirt these rules, legitimate direct to consumer farms like us are monitored for comp

No doubt you've heard of aged beef. Usually fancier restaurants will tout their beef as 'aged for X days' or 'dry aged' or 'wet aged'. But, what exactly are they telling you? Aging meats is not a new concept. Our ancient ancestors would hang their kill until it was considered 'high' or 'gamey'. Some of this was out of necessity, since refrigeration was still hundreds of years away. Even so, they recognized that the meat that they left hanging longer was more tender and b

What exactly is a vegetarian fed chicken egg? The thought occurred to me while I was making breakfast last weekend. We have our own laying hens, and our egg cartons are usually given to us by friends and neighbors. I rarely pay attention to what kind of carton I have, but this one caught my attention. As a guy who makes somewhere north of 350 tons of chicken feed for other farms each year, I feel confident in saying that nearly all commercial chicken feeds are technically veg

For decades any animal feeding on the farm was done with shovels or buckets. The cattle use about 3,000 pounds of feed per week, which equates to feeding about 30 scoop shovels per day! The hogs use another 2,000 pounds of feed per week. I've never been afraid of work, so when I decided to add automation and internet capable devices to the farm, physical work was not the primary motivation for seeking upgrades. The two biggest factors that went into the decision was off-f