Supervisor for the beef pickup
We had the milk run for the next couple weeks as the other family is on vacation. Turns out, no one in the group wanted milk this week. It was just us wanting a ½ gallon of cream for Thanksgiving.
The dairy farm offers grassfed beef also. In the past it was Normande beef. We’d gotten a quarter a while back, but my husband wasn’t impressed. He’s been spoiled by the Devon beef we used to raise. The dairy farm has changed hands, a younger couple with kids has bought it. They brought Red Poll stock with them when they moved onto the farm.
So when they offered the Red Poll beef, we asked if we could get a quarter of just Red Poll, to try out. They agreed and this is our Red Poll quarter of cuts.
We also got a smaller cooler of the hamburg from the quarter. We use a lot of hamburg and they were offering separate 30# boxes of hamburg, so we asked for one. That box was probably Red Poll and Normande mixed.
We spoke of this and that: the movie The Biggest Little Farm which they’ve not seen yet, pollock fishing and possibly bartering for pollock, and the addition. We asked after the little white birds that come with the snow on their hill. They call them snow buntings as do we, but neither of us are sure that’s what they are. One can’t get close enough for naked eye ID.
Once the meat was loaded, we went and got our cream. I found this premium ice cream in the freezer. The photo is of some of the Jerseys and a Normande from the herd.
The beef pickup supervisor warming up
It was only 28F on the hill, and 37F when we got down on our farm again. One of the reasons I prefer being a flatlander… But this is a very beautiful farm to visit, even in the height of winter.