Delivery Available to La Crosse, Eau Claire, and Madison
Northfarthing ground beef is available for pre-order in La Crosse, Eau Claire and Madison. Our high quality, lean, pasture/forage-raised beef hamburger is available for $5/lb ($4/lb for orders larger than 100 lbs). Place orders before April 10 for delivery in early May – specific dates and times TBA. Minimum individual order, 25 lbs. Minimum 300 lbs combined orders for free delivery.
Delivery locations:
La Crosse: Woodman’s Parking Lot, Highway 16, Onalaska, WI.
Eau Claire: Woodman’s Parking Lot, just off Highway 53, Altoona, WI
Madison: TBA
For more information or to place an order, contact:
Northfarthing Grass Farm, (715) 284-2422, northfarthinggrassfarm at gmail dot com.
Merry Christmas! The Advent season of waiting for Christ’s coming is almost spent and the Christmas time of celebration is upon us! This year, our children learned “Joy to the World” for the first time to sing in their Sunday School Christmas program. As I sang the carol, too, while milking, it refreshed my attention to the text in a new context:
Joy to the world, the Lord is come! Let earth receive her king; Let ev’ry heart prepare him room And heav’n and nature sing…
Joy to the earth, the Savior reigns! Let men their songs employ, While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains Repeat the sounding joy…
No more let sins and sorrows grow Nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make His blessings flow Far as the curse is found…
Isaac Watts, Joy to the World, stanzas 1-3
As I listened carefully to the text of all creation praising God in this carol and all creation celebrating the reverse of the Fall into sin, I was reminded of this verse:
” For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.”
Romans 8:19-25, ESV
As we celebrate Christ’s birth in Bethlehem this Christmas, it is good that we remember that He really came and was really born as a real, weak, helpless baby and that he grew into a real man who really died on the cross to pay for our sins and rose again as the seal of his victory. But lets also remember that he is coming back to restore all things to their original created perfection – and not only for us, but for all creation, even the cows, that wait with longing for the new heaven and new earth. And let’s find hope in the fact that he comes to us daily through his Word and Sacraments to journey with us until that day.
Merry Christmas, and God’s blessings in the New Year!
Pot roast with root veggies: one of the coziest – and easiest – flavors of fall and winter. This is one of our favorite go-to meals this time of year. Any beef roast will be delicious prepared this way, although tougher, more flavorful cuts like the chuck benefit most from this slower, higher heat cooking method. If you have a sirloin tip roast, you may treat it to gentler cooking.
This simple fall and winter favorite is delicious with any beef roast, but best suited to tougher, more flavorful cuts like a chuck roast. Allow 1/2 lb of boneless roast per eater, 1 lb of bone-in.
Prep Time25 minutesmins
Cook Time3 hourshrs
Resting Time10 minutesmins
Total Time3 hourshrs25 minutesmins
Author: Northfarthing Grass Farm
Ingredients
3poundbeef roast
2Tblspbutter
1-2medium onions, diced
4-6carrots, cut in thick (1/2 -1 inch) rounds
2clovesgarlic, minced
1bay leaf
salt and pepperto taste
6medium potatoes, cubed
1-1 1/2cupswater or brothsee directions for quantity
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Sprinkle beef roast with salt and pepper. Sear 3-4 minutes on each side over medium to medium-high heat. Remove to plate and let stand.
Lower heat and melt butter in pan from searing beef, scraping up browned beef bits.
Add all vegetables except garlic. Add bay leaf. Cook vegetables until softened, about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Add garlic and cook for 30 seconds, until fragrant.
If using an oven safe pan, return roast to pan, over vegetables, and pour any juices from roast plate into pan. Add water and/or broth to pan until liquid level covers about half of the roast. Bring liquid to a simmer, cover, and put in oven. If using a non-oven-safe pan, add liquid to vegetables and bring to a simmer, then pour into roasting pan and add roast, adjusting liquid level as necessary to reach approximately halfway up the roast. Cover the roasting pan and put in oven.
Every 30 minutes, flip roast over in pan. After about two hours, add potatoes and cook without flipping roast again for remaining 45-60 minutes.
Roast is done when fork tender.
Notes
Feel free to add any additional root vegetables desired, either initially or with potatoes, and any other vegetables, such as corn or green beans, with the potatoes or in the last 30 minutes. Make sure root vegetables are submerged in broth.
July, when this post first began, is a good month to enjoy being patriotic and celebrate the many blessings of life in America. These include not only the specific freedoms and responsibilities of citizens in this democratic republic, but also some of our fun “institutions”, including baseball, apple pie, and the family farm. Around here, we’re pretty partial to the family farm, although we like our apple pie awfully well, too.
We’ve been enjoying barn swallows this summer. Barn swallows can be a mixed bag. They are noisy and messy. They are also beautiful and extremely useful: barn swallows eat an incredible number of bugs. Ours have been very polite and haven’t nested anywhere that makes them a nuisance, so we are enjoying them without any downsides.
Welcome! I hope you enjoy your virtual visit to our farm. We are eager to share our new adventures with grass, cows, wildlife, and microbes with you. We hope you will partner with us in stewarding this beautiful creation and building local communities, whether in this corner of the world or by taking some inspiration into your own area.
