Road finally open! After being close for 6 months, you can now turn south onto Aboite Road from Lafayette Center Road. Look forward to seeing you out at the farm soon.​

Did you know that farmers can employ laying hens as a natural form of pest control agents in cattle pastures? The idea is that when chickens follow behind grazing animals, the bird's presence act to disrupt the life cycles of pest and parasites. This simply comes down to taking advantage of biomimicry to harness the symbiotic relationships that exist between grazing animals and birds. This production model is something we've adapted from Joel Salatin's Polyface Farms. Take a look at the video to see how this works:

We're pleased to welcome 7 baby goslings as the newest and cutest members of our farm. Believe it or not, these little fuzz balls will grow up to a mature weight of 10-15 pounds. Because of their large size and protective behavior, these full grown geese will protect our flocks of pastured laying hens from predators such as hawks and eagles and even ground predators such as raccoons, minks, and foxes.

In this video, Blaine and Bruce give a quick demonstration of how your eggs are washed, graded, and packaged.

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Come along with us on a one day Amtrak train trip we recently took to visit Eataly in Chicago. Eataly is the world's largest Italian marketplace featuring several fine Italian restaurants, food and beverage counters a bakery, an old world meat market and much more.

Did you know that according to the most recent census of agriculture, from 2007 to 2012 there was a decline of over 95,000 farms in America. According to statistical odds Seven Sons should have gone out of business years ago yet here we are, not only surviving but thanks to your support we are blessed to remain a thriving family farm. What are the factors that have made this possible?

​We were recently at a conference in Idaho where we spoke about our sustainable farming practices. While in Idaho we had the unique opportunity to visit Cunningham Ranch​. ​The Cunningham Ranch consists of 1,800 acres of private land plus 100,000 acres of public rangeland shared with neighboring ranchers located in Jordon Valley Oregon. Our friends Sean and Liz Cunningham are 4th generation ranchers and their family originally settled the ranch in 1914. Today the ranch raises grassfed cattle, lambs and pastured hogs and is also home to lots of wildlife including Mule Deer, Elk, Antelope, Sage Grouse, Pheasant, Quail and even some Cougars.​ We actually meet Sean and Liz​​ at a previous conference in southern Georgia last year. Check out the video below to see more:

Did you know that different plants have the unique ability to uptake certain minerals from the soil. This means the more plant diversity we have, the more minerals our animals have, and ultimately the more minerals you get. Watch how we employ our pigs to encourage plant diversity in our pastures.

It appears that retail grocery stores are now changing their tune when it comes to offering locally sourced products. Surprisingly this year alone, five midwest grocery store chains chose to offer pasture-raised eggs from Seven Sons. Can you guess which stores these are?

Sometimes in life, relationships with friends can develop so slowly overtime that you don't realize the meaningfulness and fondness that a person represents in your life. This week we were reminded of such a person who had become a dear friend of our family as well as someone many of you would've met.

Cows can't get much happier than when we use swath grazing. It's likely that many of you reading this post have never heard of swath grazing or know what it means. This is a grazing technique that we first learned about from professional graziers in South America. We're now using this adaptive grazing tool during certain times of the year. Take look at this short video to watch some happy cows swath grazing at Seven Sons...