Meat Share

Pick up your Meat Share: Archway Farm: starting Thursday, August 30th, open daily 9a – 7p    Dear Shareholders: This year we decided not to raise meat chickens to give us more time to focus on building up our beef program. The chicken in our meat shares comes from Normanton Farms in Litchfield. Steve and

Pick up your Meat Share: Archway Farm: starting Thursday, August 3rd, open daily 9a – 7p    Dear Shareholders: The lamb in our meat shares comes from Five Sigma Farm in Sullivan. Milton and his team of working dogs raise lamb on lush, rotationally-grazed pastures. The ewes and lambs are moved daily to give them

Pick up your Meat Share: Archway Farm: starting Thursday, June 29th, open daily 9a – 7p    Dear Shareholders: A little background on where we are with beef. After a couple years of buying in whole beef animals, as well as some cuts, from a couple different local and regional farms, we are now in

Pick up your Meat Share: Archway Farm: starting Thursday, June 1st, open daily 9a – 7p    Dear Shareholders: Over the next couple months I’d like to spend a little time to talk more in depth about the meat that goes into our shares. Starting this month with our pork. All of the pork included

Pick up your Meat Share: Archway Farm: starting Friday, May 5th, open daily 9a – 7p    Dear Shareholders: We were hoping to have animals out on pasture by now, but this rain has definitely slowed us down. This weekend looks better, so our plan is to start getting some pigs out. We’re also excited

Pick up your Meat Share: Archway Farm: starting Thursday, March 30th, open daily 9a – 7p    Dear Shareholders: We are excited to have cured and smoked all our hams in house this year. It’s a fairly involved process that has taken us a while to scale up. We inject and brine the hams for

Pick up your Meat Share: Archway Farm: starting Friday, March 3rd, open daily 9a – 7p    Dear Shareholders: We set our maple taps today and can almost feel the seasons changing. We have a very small (26 tap) sugar operation for our personal supply as well as what we use for our breakfast sausage

Pick up your Meat Share: Archway Farm: starting Thursday, February 2nd, open daily 9a – 7p    Dear Shareholders: We are shifting towards cutting smaller amounts of pork more frequently as it makes our work flow more consistent and manageable. I have highlighted some of the more frequent things included in this months shares, but

Pick up your Meat Share: Archway Farm: starting Thursday December 29th, open daily 9a – 7p    Dear Shareholders: We packed up the meat shares and have them ready to pick up now, a little earlier than what has been our normal schedule. With the dedicated chest freezer we have space to hold them if

Pick up your Meat Share: Archway Farm: Friday – Sunday, December 2nd – 4th, 9a – 7p    Dear Shareholders: We are midway through our busy holiday season with Thanksgiving behind us and Christmas coming soon. All our pigs are in winter housing, and the turkeys and meat chickens are wrapped up for the year,

Pick up your Meat Share: Archway Farm: Friday – Sunday, November 4th – 6th, 9a – 7p    Dear Shareholders: Winter season is rapidly approaching. We are wrapping up poultry for the year with our last batch of turkeys next week, and have started moving pigs into winter housing. And we had the roofing for

Pick up your Meat Share: Archway Farm: Friday – Sunday, October 7th – 9th, 9a – 7p    Dear Shareholders: It feels like we went from dry hot summer, to cool wet fall overnight. We are shifting gears here, planning for the move to winter housing for the pigs and a busy November & December