Stith Family Farms

As Thanksgiving arrives, our farm has a lot to be thankful for. The farm has experienced significant change and growth the past few years. Our leap of faith toward retail agriculture is paying dividends. It's always humbling to think about how many family meals our farm now plays a part in each day. Thanksgiving meal is no exception. While I don't raise turkey, which is the undisputed star of Thanksgiving, I did make feed for customers to feed their turkeys all season. I sna

Occasionally I find a potential customer is a little hesitant to order from us for the first time if they have only bought meats from grocery stores. It's human nature to get used to doing things a certain way and be content to keep doing them that way. (Many blog posts could be written about that sentence alone!) I'll admit our process may be different than what you're accustomed to, but if you give it a chance, you may find it as easy or easier than shopping in a convention

Is the family farm dying? My blog post, Get Back to Your Roots, introduced the idea that the general public is less connected to farms than ever before. Today I thought I'd dive deeper into how that happened, what a family farm looks like today and if the family farm still has a future. In 1940, there were 6.8 million farms in the United States according to USDA statistics, and more than 20 million people lived on those farms. Today there are only 2.1 million farms in this

'Behind every good man is a great woman,' the old cliché says. If that quote ever applied to anyone, it applied to my grandmother, Lucille Stith. The farm and our farming family simply could not have existed without her. It's hard to overstate her contributions to our family and to the farm; she was truly a superhero. She nurtured 11 children, cooked on an industrial scale and still managed to be warm and loving to us all. I think about her often this time of year. Today