heidi's blog

 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!read more »

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.read more »

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!