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Farm Fresh Weekly Saturday is the fall party!
As a reminder, here is the schedule:
4:00 pm-- Come out if you want to help stir apple butter in a big copper kettle
5:00-6:00 pm-- When the apple butter is ready, we will put it in jars and seal and label them
7:00 pm-- Party begins! Enjoy live music, a bonfire, snacks, and conversation. Also, try your hand at pressing apple cider and bobbing for apples.
Please bring lawn chairs, your favorite snacks and bread to share! We will provide butter and apple butter to eat on the bread, and drinks.
Milk price increase
The demand for our milk has dramatically increased this year, and will exceed our supply for the winter. We are exploring options for getting more milk to meet the demand, but are realistically projecting to run out of milk early in 2009. To help limit demand, we will be raising the price of milk to $6.50/gallon fresh and $7.00/gallon frozen effective September 28. The additional revenue will also help us raise funds to purchase more cows for future demand. Beef to butcher
We are taking the last of this summer's beef to the butcher over the next few weeks. If you will want a side this fall or winter let us know soon. We will not have any more animals ready until late winter. We will have enough to keep the sales room stocked.
Stories from the farm
Autumn is harvest time on the farm. Shorter days and cooler nights lead to ripening of crops. That doesn't always affect us here since we are primarily grass based and the cows harvest that year around, but Daniel helps a neighbor with his crop harvest so is gone more. A more local neighbor is also starting corn and bean harvest so there is a continual rumble of grain trucks going by. Please be careful and observant when driving to our place as not only are there more trucks and equipment sharing the road, but the deer also seem to be more evident.
Healthy food for healthy living. Daniel King and Kenneth King
JaKo, Inc.
6003 E. Eales Rd
Hutchinson, KS 67501
www.jakoinc.com
620.663.1470
Farm Fresh Weekly Fall customer appreciation party
Here is the schedule for Saturday, October 4:
4:00 pm-- Come out if you want to help stir apple butter in a big copper kettle
5:00-6:00 pm-- When the apple butter is ready, we will put it in jars and label it
7:00 pm-- Party begins! Enjoy live music, a bonfire, snacks, and conversation. Also, try your hand at pressing apple cider and bobbing for apples.
Please bring lawn chairs, your favorite snacks and bread to share! We will provide butter and apple butter to eat on the bread, and drinks.
Apple sauce
David and I made some applesauce this week, and we think it is delightful. It is made from our all-natural apples. We have both unsweetened applesauce and sauce sweetened with honey. Give it a try and tell us what you think.
Different packaging for lamb
We have a wonderful butcher who works with us and does a good job of getting us what we want. Like everyone else, once in a while he has an equipment breakdown. This week when they were packaging lamb the shrink wrap machine broke, so they finished up vacuum sealing the rest. The product in the sales room is all the same, some just has a different wrapper.
Stories from the farm
We got our first snowman of the season on the farm this week. No, it's not made of snow, it's Daniel's new dog. Snowman is a six-month old border collie cross who loves to run and chew things. He is sometimes here on the farm, so you might meet him next time you're out.
Healthy food for healthy living. Daniel King and Kenneth King
JaKo, Inc.
6003 E. Eales Rd
Hutchinson, KS 67501
www.jakoinc.com
620.663.1470
Farm Fresh Weekly Fall customer appreciation party
Not only do we have apples for our party, we have a musician lined up to play and sing campfire songs. Hopefully this year the wind will not be an issue with the fire. Hope to see you October 4.
Grass seeding
This past week we reseeded part of our paddocks to a perennial grass/legume mixture. The nice thing about this is that once we get the stand established we don't have the annual tillage and seeding costs. To facilitate this reseeding we do work up a number of other paddocks and plant them to an annual forage for one year.
Apple sauce
This winter we want to make apple sauce to sell in the sales room so David and I have been trying to mechanize our production system. I have always enjoyed cutting apples up for sauce for our own use but this size requires more than I want to tackle.
All Beef German style Sausage
We finally brought our sausage home from the butcher this week only three weeks after we thought we would get it. It is made from our beef with salt, pepper and liquid smoke flavoring. We think you will like it.
Stories from the farm
As you read this David, Judy and I will be in Goshen, IN (Judy's home town) and where David's fiance, Haly, is in school. Haly has a birthday this weekend so we are celebrating that along with visiting family. We also have the privilege of meeting Haly's parents.
Healthy food for healthy living. Daniel King and Kenneth King
JaKo, Inc.
6003 E. Eales Rd
Hutchinson, KS 67501
www.jakoinc.com
620.663.1470
Farm Fresh Weekly Fall customer appreciation party
Want to party with us around an apple cider press or a apple butter kettle? Then get the date for our party on your calendar and in your head because October 4 is coming quickly.
Problems with Farm Fresh Weekly
Recently some customers have been reporting that they're not receiving Farm Fresh Weekly regularly. If you've been experiencing this, there are some other, more reliable options. Email David to find out more.
CSA
We have had some interest in our Customer Supported Agriculture (CSA) idea and more feedback is coming in. If you haven't responded, we would love to hear from you and will keep you posted as to what we decide.
Apples
What a grand experience apples are. We have enjoyed working with them and seeing peoples expressions when they bite into a cold crisp apple that has not been sprayed with chemicals or otherwise adulterated. We are about out of fresh cider but have lots of frozen on hand. Stories from the farm
We had several paddocks worked up and ready to replant to grass for the last few weeks but could not plant them. First the seed did not come as soon as expected, then it rained and was too wet, then we got into apples. Finally on Thursday we worked long and hard and got the seed in the ground by about 9:00 in the evening. How pleasant it was to wake up Friday morning to gentle showers that was just perfect on the new seeding. It reminded me of the song we used to sing, "Showers of blessings."
Healthy food for healthy living. Daniel King and Kenneth King
JaKo, Inc.
6003 E. Eales Rd
Hutchinson, KS 67501
www.jakoinc.com
620.663.1470
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