I am offering my second CANNING Class on March 30th. We will be canning beef, chicken, and pork! We will also review canning fruits and vegetables. Email me now for more information!!
Okay, a little Rolling Hills Farm trivia....How do you determine the color of egg a chicken will lay? Brown chicken - brown egg? White chicken - white egg? Nope!! The color of the chicken's EAR determines the color of the egg it will lay! So, we have four chickens with white ears and get an average of 3-4 white eggs a day. The same amazing eggs you have come to expect - just a different color shell!
Because I get this question often, I thought it might be helpful to give a couple examples of what exact cuts of meat you might expect in a monthly full share of your meat CSA.
Everywhere we turn....blessings...our winter chickens are doing great and ready to be processed for our December/January CSA customers. We have full-time farm help; Perish is really carrying his weight around the farm. He helps with everything from rotating hogs and cattle to all our winter projects (fence repairs, building our second mobil chicken coop, chicken processing area -better then the one we have, and Rod and Perish are building a cabin for Perish)! Customers are our biggest blessing - what fun we had this fall with hayrides, donkey visits, and farm tours.
Wow, what a busy season...we are blessed! Rod and I have had the joy of adding so many new CSA family members - THANK YOU! Now that the "dust has settled" we have limited space available for our CSA's! We have gotten some wonderful feedback about our grass-fed beef, pastured eggs, amazing fresh pork, and our chicken! We are encouraging folks to plan ahead for the Thanksgiving/Christmas holidays now by ordering extra eggs and sausage for your cooking, baking, and/or a one-of-a-kind gifts for love ones.
Wow, what a busy season...we are blessed! Rod and I have had the joy of adding so many new CSA family members - THANK YOU! Now that the "dust has settled" we have limited space available for our CSA's! We have gotten some wonderful feedback about our grass-fed beef, pastured eggs, amazing fresh pork, and our chicken! We are encouraging folks to plan ahead for the Thanksgiving/Christmas holidays now by ordering extra eggs and sausage for your cooking, baking, and/or a one-of-a-kind gifts for love ones.
The leaves are turning and animals are getting their winter coats! Rod and his Dad just installed a wood burning fireplace in our living room! I can't wait to cook on the top of the wood burning stove. Our last miniature donkey is due any day....we just can't wait. All the chickens are laying eggs like crazy! We picked the best chicken layers (Red Star) - they are year round layers and great birds. Come visit the farm during the fall- it is beautiful here!
Please join us for a Canning Class on Thursday, October 15th from 6-8 PM ~ Our class will focus on canning beef, chicken, and pork. For more details, click on CONTACT US - or call 931-583-2279. Space is limited so contact us now.
Our Meat CSA has taken off and we have had to resort to a waiting list! Wow, what a blessing! We have the best customers!! With 4 active pick up locations PLUS our farm pick up we are keeping busy! Our customers enjoy a seasonal rotation of grass-fed beef (ground beef, porterhouse, t-bone, roasts, round streak, brisket, and more), pork (seasoned breakfast sausage, pork roast, pork chops), and our amazing pastured chickens. Also included is eggs (4 dozen for a whole share, 2 dozen for a half share)!
The mornings have been cool and the days so crisp with no humidity. We will be processing our last pasture-based chickens over the next week and then it will be spring before we have chickens again. I can't believe we have processed and sold over 200 chickens this summer. Everyone has raved about how tender and tasty their chicken was, we had one customer say, "I have been privileged to eat in many fine restaurants and by far, Rolling Hills Farm is the best chicken I've had." Wow!
Anything ending in "grandson" has simply been a joy the last couple weeks! Feeding the chickens..."with my grandson"....gathering eggs "with my grandson"...picking up square bales of hay from the fields "with my grandson"....picking green beans from the garden "'with my grandson"...I think you get it. Everthing is better with grandson at the end. It is such a blessing seeing all our everyday chores play out in the eyes of a 31/2 year olds eyes.
Come on out to Rolling Hills Farm! Bring your family, church group, home school group, and friends, and let us show you around! There is never a charge to tour our farm, let us show you how we do our rotational grazing, gather eggs, play with the miniature donkeys, feed the ducks. It is very educational and lots of fun! You will never have the same experience twice! Go to the CONTACT US PAGE for your personal appointment!
Making sure that our chickens stay on grass their entire lives, eating bugs-forging naturally, running to get exercise, and breathing fresh air. At Rolling Hills Farm our chickens live in a healthy and humane environment. What does this mean to you? Food that is higher in Omega-3 and Omega-6, and are richer in antioxidants such as vitamin E, beta carotene, and vitamin C WITHOUT traces of added hormones, antibiotics, or other drugs.
Buying a split side or a side of grass fed / grass finished Rolling Hills Farm beef is EASY! Just call or email us and we can walk you through the steps! Whether you choose the standard bone-in cuts or custom cuts, your meat will be dry aged to meet 5 star restaurant quality. And don't forget, at Rolling Hills Farm, we offer FREE DELIVERY on split sides of beef and side orders of beef or pork...(surrounding Nashville areas please). We can't wait to meet you!
I have been asked by several customers about cooking grass fed beef on the grill in the last few days. Because there is less fat in our beef, we suggest using a light olive oil on your beef before putting it on the grill. Watch it carefully as it will cook quicker then grain fed beef. You don't want to over cook your steak so two minutes (depending on the thickness) on each side should be plenty - it will continue to cook once you remove it. We suggest medium or medium rare steak. Good luck!
You bet! This rain is just what I needed to give me some inside time for canning...so I fried up some of our pastured pork and simply put it in some jars and poured the hot grease on top. Then I carefully put the lids on and turned the jars upside down. The hot grease seals the jars until I am ready to use the sausage! That was easy and saves space in my freezer.
I couldn't believe it until I tried it myself, now I can't get enough! Cut your raw RHF beef into bite size/ stew chunks and put into pint size jars. Cover with hot water and 1 t canning salt per jar. Seal jars. PRESSURE COOK 10 pounds for 50 minutes. Your meat will be cooked and ready to reheat over egg noodles or mashed potatoes! It is so tender and handy to have ready after a hard day of work (also great to have that extra freezer space!) ~Heidi
We moved our layers from the brooder onto grass today. We now have 100 layers on grass that will be ready to lay our "on demand" farm fresh, pastured eggs by this fall. No worries, plenty of eggs to go around!
Our pastured pork breakfast sausage is made with a local family "secret" recipe handed down from generations. The perfect blend of spices and fresh sage make this sausage the pride of Rolling Hills Farm! Available NOW!
Rolling Hills Farm offers a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) with freezer friendly portions of meat and eggs delivered monthly to our customers!! We recommend the FULL SHARE as the best value ~ it includes an average of 25lbs. of pastured meats (at least two different kinds per month-expect a delicious seasonal rotation!) and 4 dozen eggs! Go to CSA information or CONTACT US for more information!!
HOT PEPPER JELLY! I spent the weekend canning Hot Pepper Jelly! It is a wonderful glaze on fresh chicken! Jalapeno peppers are growing like crazy right now, this rain was just what we needed! My sister and I also picked blackberries and canned blackberry jam!
No, it's better! We are asked this question often and we like to say we exceed "organic"! Because having the label of "organic" is now a word game of big business and government - even USDA allows old frozen birds to be called fresh as long as they are not frozen below zero. Cows and hogs can be raised in small paddocks and poultry in crowded factory houses as long as they are fed politically correct rations - they get the "organic" stamp of approval (upon proper payment).
This is our second 4th of July at Rolling Hills Farm!! We are so blessed with the progress we have made. Starting with eggs and beef and now a year later, we have already added pork, chicken, and turkey! Our miniature donkey pet visitation is off to a great start and we have already had 13 visits in 7 months!
