Ararat Farm Newsletter December 2023
A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Ararat Farm! We hope you all had a wonderful holiday season. We had a busy holiday season and also enjoyable time with family celebrating the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ and the opening of the New Year. December was a very busy month with wrapping up Winter pork and getting the excavator back and starting and off the farm job. As well as the normal holiday preparations. Well, lets get started.
Summary for the month of December:
Winter Grazing
Winter Pork Wrapped Up
Return of the Excavator
Canning the Harvest
The Cows
Over the last month the cows have been in their winter grazing season. Grass is no longer growing so we are grazing the stock pile grass we saved through the latter part of summer into fall. We were able to get hay and have alternating between hay and grazing for the last month. The cows are in their full winter coast and have been fat and happy. Frosty our bull was away for a little while tending to a neighboring farm and their cows but he is back now.
The Pigs
This month the pigs went for their one bad day. Everything went smoothly with no stress on the pigs. They all loaded calmly with out any struggles. We were able to make the Winter Pork deliveries a full week before Christmas which was nice for us and the customers. We thank each one of you who ordered pork this December. With out you we wouldn’t be able to provide quality and flavorful meat.
Return of the Excavator
The Excavator return to Ararat the first of December. We are glad to have our equipment back to start on some projects that have been neglected for some time. But, no sooner did it get back then it got bid out for a job on another farm that we have grazed a few years ago. Matt has been digging a water line for the 2 weeks before Christmas and took time off to fix a water line on Ararat. It is going back to work this week to hopefully wrap up the job soon. Winter is a terrible season to work on water lines but it ends up being the season things break and need to be fixed.
Canning the Harvest
There are harvests in the summer and fall in gardens but there is a harvest in late fall and early winter on the farm. When hunting season is in full swing is is a special time of harvest. As farmers and stewards of the land given into our care we also have the job to steward the wild life. This year we harvested deer and canned half of it and froze the other half. Now we have so prepped meat to go into a hard winter with.
Close the Book of 2023
As we close the year 2023 we can’t help but praise the Lord for His goodness and sovereignty over us. Each year brings new adventures and challenges that remind us how much we must rely on the Lord who brings us to each new year. We pray that this year would glorify the Lord with the new opportunities we will be starting and that He would draw us closer to him and that the work of our hands would bring glory to Him. Happy New Year!
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