Our first Pat’s Pastured Farm Tour took place last Saturday. These photos were taken by one of the attendees. (Thanks Jill!)

As we get ready for the start of our summer meat CSA (on May 29) and the opening days for the summer farmers’ markets, we thought we’d share a few of our favorite cookbooks. (Click on cookbook images for more details.)

Muchkin is one of three sweet Jersey cows that recently joined our farm. We will not be selling milk this year, but we are looking forward to experimenting with grass-based, once-a-day milking.

Pat and Josh load the feeders for the layers while Shep, one of our livestock guardian dogs, looks on.

The first batch of broilers – all 600 of them – are out on pasture! (We would have put them out last week but had to delay due to the storm.)

Layla with three of her 11 piglets. They are about a week old in this photo.