We are back again with our June update on what has been happening here on our farm this last month.

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Our first batch of chickens were moved out to pasture just a couple of weeks ago. We are also looking forward to our second batch of chickens that will be arriving on farm tomorrow!

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The sheep have now officially been able to be out on pasture for the last week or so. They are very happy to be out on green grass instead of having to eat dry hay.

Our cows have also had their calves this last month. One was born on Memorial Day, and the other one had twins a couple weeks earlier. And they are all doing very well!

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“Then we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will thank you forever and ever, praising your greatness from generation to generation.”

Psalm 79:13

Spring has most definitely sprung around here! We have had so many things happen on the farm since we last updated you almost two months ago.

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We received our first of three batches of chickens for this year.

They are doing very well and are growing extremely fast. We are keeping them in the brooder to help keep them warm until they are about three weeks old which is when they will be able to regulate their own body temperature and go out to fresh pasture.

The sheep have been begging to go on pasture since about the beginning of March. We had them on pasture for a little bit but had to move them back to the yard due to some challenges with the fencing. They seem to be content with the hay for now. But I’m looking forward to putting them out on some grass again!

We are also very excited about the newest addition to our farm this month of a couple of beef cows! This girl on the left will be having a calf sometime at the end of May or beginning of June!

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“If a job is worth doing, it’s worth doing poorly first”

Joel Salatin

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Judah,

For Cadwell Agriculture

This last month was spent doing a bit of fine-tuning of our preparations for the rest of the production year.

This year we are so excited to have received access to some more acreage nearby. This will give us some more room for our operation, which will allow us to graze the sheep on more of the pasture here at home and raise the chickens on the new pasture.

We also had to update our watering system for the chickens because the new pasture does not have any water on it.

We are looking forward to our first batch of baby chicks that will be arriving later this month.

Our second, and last ewe had her lamb a couple weeks ago, but sadly, due to some complications, the lamb did not make it. The mama is doing well, and thanks to a fellow farmer’s suggestion, I will plan on breeding her again to have some lambs this fall!

We hope to send you all another update in May, but due to the busy spring season, it may be delayed by a bit.

“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength. “

Author Unknown

Judah,

For Cadwell Agriculture.

Thank you to everyone who was involved with the chicken pre-orders! We completely sold out on what we had available this year!

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I’m excited as we move into this next month. As things are starting to ramp up, we are figuring out some of our final details for the season, and we are enjoying the wonderful warm weather!

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The orange marks on the lamb and ewe are paint markings for record keeping.

On Sunday, February 16th, we also had our first baby lamb arrive. We are so happy to have this next part of the sheep journey underway! The lamb is doing very well and bouncing all over the place on these warm days!

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“May God give you of heaven’s dew and of earth’s richness…”

Genesis 27:28

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Judah,

For Cadwell Agriculture

More details below:

Hi friends,

We made it through the annual sub-zero temps this month, thankfully without very many challenges. This week we have been enjoying the very warm, almost T-Shirt weather we’ve been having. It has been very hard to stay indoors this last week.

This month we were able to go to a couple conferences related to building health in our land, using animals. We were also able to build a second chicken tractor, which will allow us to run even more chickens on pasture, to provide even more high-quality, organically-fed chickens to more wonderful people.

If you would like to get a great deal on your chicken for this next year, We are are offering a 10% discount on all Pre-orders made by February 14th.

Whole chicken available for $4.95/lb. (Usually $5.45/lb)

Whole chicken cut up into 8 Pieces available for $5.22/lb. (Usually $5.74/lb)

We are also Offering:

Chicken feet (cleaned) $2.50/lb (Usually $2.75/lb)

Necks: $3.50/lb (Usually $3.85/lb)

Hearts: $12.00/lb (Usually $13.20/lb)

Livers: $12.27/lb (Usually $13.50/lb)

If you are interested in ordering any of the above products to secure this deal, you can go to our Pre-order form or contact us via the contact form.

“Nature Is Cruel, but we don’t have to be…”

Temple Grandin

Judah,

for Cadwell Agriculture

Welcome to 2025!!

This has been somewhat of a slow month in regards to most of the visible farm work, but we are excited to be doing a bit of planning for next year, including getting ready for the farm’s first lambing coming this spring! (Sometime in March or April.)

Most of our work this last month has been looking at records and making a lot of the scheduling decisions for this next season.

The sheep do not seem mind the cold at all these days. In fact, they seem to like it!

Thankyou for reading this very short newsletter. I’m looking forward to sharing the joys of another farming season ahead!

“How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!”

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Judah,

The weather is cooling down quite a bit these days. And the pastures are not growing quite as quickly, and along with this comes the slowing down of the season and a time where I can look back and enjoy the accomplishments of the summer.

We are extremely blessed this year to have had lots of rain to really get the grass to keep growing quickly well into August, which provided great pasture for the chickens and the sheep.

The sheep are doing well and grew a lot this summer on pasture.

I’m looking forward to seeing the pastures get better and higher-quality as we continue to have them out there.

We are moving into the fall corn harvest season, so we will be shifting from a lot of animal work to more work with tractors. This is something that I enjoy doing, and it has helped with a lot of the farm startup costs.

“It feels good at the end of the day to know you made a product that other people are going to enjoy.”

Jericho Sanchez

Judah,

for Cadwell Agriculture

Crazy to think we are halfway through the year! It has been a nice busy month but not quite as crazy as it was in early spring when everything starts at once. Here is a little bit of what we’ve been up to.

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The sheep are continuing to grow and enjoy the green grass on pasture.

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And as the sheep have been grazing, we also have been doing a bit of hay-making, gathering some feed for winter.

This month we also butchered our first out of 3 batches of broilers for this year. We still have a few available. You can order yours here.​

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“Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.”

Madam C. J. Walker

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Judah,

for Cadwell Agriculture

I’ve really been enjoying an early spring this year, which has been very nice. Although the weather has cooled down, the grass is still growing like crazy.

The sheep (and myself) are getting antsy to get out in the pasture. They got a little taste of the green grass this week as a test, but I’m excited to have them out on pasture full time on the fresh grass, where they can start harvesting their own feed and we can start rotational grazing, which helps the land and grass to rest and recover in between grazing times, and also helps the sheep to be healthier and happier.

Earlier this month we wrapped up the mower project. Since then, we have been focusing on preparations for the summer, which includes getting ready for the broilers that will be coming later this month and making sure that the chicken tractor and other supplies are all ready to go after sitting all winter.

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“The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.”

Stendhal

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Judah,

for Cadwell Agriculture

(Click ​here​ to watch a video version of this update)

We are only 15 days away from spring, although we’ve been enjoying plenty of spring like weather for the last couple of weeks.

Late January we purchased 3 lambs. 1 ram and 2 ewes for our starter flock. So this month has been spent watching them and making sure they settled in nicely. They have been doing great and are acclimating very nicely.

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We’ve also been spending quite a bit of time in the shop doing maintenance on various machines. We have also been working on getting my grandpa’s old mower up and running smoothly and updating it to modern safety standards.

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“Some call it the middle of nowhere; we call it the center of everything.”

Author Unknown.

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Judah,

for Cadwell Agriculture