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Farm Happenings at Hawkins Family Farm
New Pullets on the Farm
A new flock of laying hens recently arrived on the farm. It won't be long before the young hens pictured here--called pullets--will be outdoors pecking seeds, scratching dirt, chasing bugs, and swallowing whole blades of grass. For a few days after they come to our farm, however, they remain inside1 read more »
Welcome to the autumn CSA!
We’ll begin this season savoring the fleeting tastes of summer—fresh tomatoes, green beans, burgers on the grill—and end up reveling in the cozy flavors fall, like frost-kissed vegetables, slow-roasted chickens, and fresh sourdough bread still warm from the oven. What a great time1 read more »
Taking Stock of the Summer Season
This week marks the final delivery of the summer CSA. I want to thank you for joining us for a season of fresh, local eating, for sharing in the risks and rewards of small scale farming here in northeastern Indiana. I'm already taking stock of the lessons I've learned this summer and using them to1 read more »
A Farm Fresh Treat for Your Pets
Every summer Saturday morning at dawn, you'll find our chicken butchering crew out in the pasture, gently gathering chickens for humane on-farm processing. By noon we have around 200 scalded, plucked, and cleaned chickens cooling in the powerful air-chiller, and a few days later they are cut up (by1 read more »
Introducing the Raw Milk Cheese Share
While we endeavor to produce a wide variety of products, dairy has always seemed beyond our reach. That’s why we were delighted when Laban Hufford, a young man whose family milks a small herd of cows just a “country block” away from our farm, told us he wanted to make cheese from1 read more »
Cute pigs and FRIDAY delivery!
It's a busy day on the farm! (Aren't they all?) The butcher crew is wrapping up the processing of this week's batch of chickens and I'm running around the garden moving irrigation to keep the plants watered now that the hot weather has arrived. So, no lengthy update this week. Just a cute photo of1 read more »
Rolling the Rye
Though the calendar tells us summer has officially arrived, on the farm we’re already thinking about autumn and winter as we make preparations for late season crops. This week I prepared our winter squash patch by terminating a standing crop of cereal rye with a tool called a roller crimper.1 read more »
Chicken!
About a month ago we ran out of our stock of frozen chicken, so we have been patiently waiting for our first batch of broilers to grow to butcher weight. Our Freedom Ranger broilers arrive on the farm in the mail as two-day old chicks. They spend three or four weeks in a brooder and then move out t1 read more »
Garlic Scapes
Garlic scapes are one of the pleasures of June on the farm and, over the past few weeks, conversation among the farm crew has often turned to anticipation of their arrival, speculation as to when that might be, and plans for how to eat them. The scape is a tender shoot that grows from the top of ea1 read more »
About the farm
Hawkins Family Farm is a fourth-generation farm in Wabash County, Indiana. We raise grains, livestock, and vegetables in rotation, using the health and wholeness of soils, waters, plants, animals, and people as our standard—whole farm agriculture at the confluence of nature and culture.
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