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We are using this opportunity to decide which venture or ventures we want to add to our sweet corn offering.
Potential Future Farm Ventures
The below ventures are ideas we have been wanting to add over the years that would compliment the sweet corn operation. In doing so, these ventures would produce more high quality food for our local community, as well as provide fertility on the farm and diversify our farm business.
We would love to hear from you if you are interested in purchasing and supporting some of the proposed ventures below. Share your thoughts and help us what to focus on first.
Pasture Raised Beef
Our family's beef herd has been pasture raised their entire lives, out in fresh air with a fresh pasture and cover crops to eat throughout the year. We also are wanting to use cattle to graze out sweet corn patch after the season, to provide free fertility to the soil and use the leftover sweet corn to feed our animals. We are focussed on quality over quantity when it comes to our cattle. We practice management intensive grazing, moving the cattle multiple times a week to ensure fresh pasture and leaving adequate time for the grazed pasture to rest.
Pasture Raised Eggs
Our laying chickens will "graze" and follow our beef herd, being moved onto new pasture every two to three days or so. This allows for an optimal and fresh diet, a clean living space, fertility to our soils, and giving the laying hens as close to a stress free life as possible so the eggs we provide you are of the highest quality.
Pasture Raised Broilers
We've played around with the idea of a "Flock Share" to compliment our "Herd Share" program for our beef. Our approach to raising chicken broilers on pasture would involve moving their "chicken tractors" daily to provide them fresh pasture, as they add fertility to the soil, get fresh air, eat a diverse array of foods the pasture provides and keeps their living space clean.
Hoop House Tomatoes
It has been in our wishlist and vision for awhile to purchase a hoop house to provide a place we can grow early season tomatoes to compliment our sweet corn harvest in July. This hoop house would also provide our pasture poultry shelter during the winter, using their manure as fertilizer and getting multiple uses out of the hoop house throughout the year, while cutting down on our need of external fertilizers to grow nutrient dense and fresh tomatoes.
Gourmet Mushrooms
Mushrooms make a great complimentary addition to many dishes and science is starting to point towards the wide range of health benefits from mushrooms such as Lion's Mane, Shiitake and Oyster mushrooms. Although they aren't a common cuisine in south central Nebraska, we invite our customers to explore these foods, as they provide a bounty of health and nutritional benefits.
Seasonal Vegetable CSA
Growing seasonal vegetables throughout the 20-23 week season in Nebraska. We have been thinking about starting a Community Supported Agriculture program, which would give members "shares" that deliver weekly seasonal vegetables for the entire growing season along with selling vegetables at the Highland Farmer's Market and our sweet corn stands.