Family farm in Vevay, Indiana. Pasture-raised meat shipped frozen nationwide, plus garlic, herbs and home goods. Regenerative and integrated. Agritourism
Vevay, Indiana
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You can scroll through here and feel a degree of forced optimism prompting you to confront the absolute real trauma and sorrow present in your own memories and experiences.
You should never misunderstand - though the temptation exists - you should choose hope.
Hope is not an emotion, or a happenstance, it is a decision.
And it is most presently and clearly a decision in times, and memories, of incredible and visceral sorrow.
There is so much pain in the world and in our own individual lives that we must confront it or we risk falling into patterns of basic survival.
Take a real, honest, deep, palliative breath. Breathe again. It’s okay. I’m sorry it happened. You will choose to be strong and hopeful.
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We are ecstatic to be included in this giveaway and encourage you to consider entering. This is an honor to be mentioned amongst such phenomenal brands - really, people.
In the next two weeks we will be announcing a product first - an entirely different line of products, and a specific Christmas bundle. We hope this serves as a launch point for the example of what Cottage Pastures can be in a world yearning for honesty, transparency, community and hopefully for all - Heaven.
Thank you @polderfamily for making this happen. This is exciting!
Our American Made Giveaway is ending tonight at 11:59pm EST! If you haven’t entered for a chance to win, hurry over to our pinned post and join the fun! nitter.siddz.com/polderfamily/status/21…
We teamed with small businesses across the US to give away over $1,500 in American Made goods! 🇺🇸
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Now that is one way to stretch the wings and wake up into the morning sunshine!
Let’s get to rocking and scratching!
Hopefully these folks start laying eggs in a week or so!
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I am a bit taken aback - I am seeing pictures of my children from when we first moved to this farm.
It really wasn’t that long ago, but the pictures I’m seeing suggest it was nearly a lifetime ago.
We are preparing a new chapter for the farm business for what looks like it will be significant to us and customers so I’m looking through pictures for the new website and more.
I’m just at a loss for words. I’m not going to share them here because they are of my children, but I am just humbled, thankful and amazed.
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When do you begin creep feed?
Honestly - as soon as they develop the confidence to begin eating what momma is showing she eats.
I am not pretending I’m trumping the wisdom of farmers who have figured out the efficiency equation for pigs - I am saying I’m observing what naturally occurs.
I believe there is a ceiling for production on our farm for meat, produce and herbs. I appreciate and like that. Whatever that production ceiling equates to in revenue and profit is what I believe is one position of economic honesty.
My pigs are delicious and nutrition rich - it’s in the fat and the muscle - all across the country people recognize it. They are not the most economically efficient and honestly I’m okay with that.
My goal is to build an agricultural business that retells the family story - not the production bank heavy money rich story.
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Just a quick drink and a snack - a roaming Cornish cross chicken and a Berkshire boar.
When you visit us next year (event info soon to be announced) this is an example of what you might see.
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Did you know all of this? Black walnuts are one of the best trees to spot in your land and are a bit of a treasure.
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Slice across the top so that every clove it just barely exposed - pour olive oil on top, cover and put in oven and it becomes a tacky garlic spread.
Peel the clove, cover in honey.
Look up a fire cider recipe and make the most pungent one you can handle to keep all things sickness away!
Plant garlic 2 - 3 inches, one clove, wrapper on, pointed up, base down, mulch with leaves some other organic matter - enjoy more garlic.
Open clove, bite clove, eat clove raw.
Chop clove finely, brown in a pan, add butter, use on steak.
Making food? Did you forget the garlic - add garlic.
Give garlic to friend and family as gift.
Join me for more garlic information - we're planting next week!
Please tell me, again, everything I should do with this. I’m going to plant. But I would love more instruction on preserving it, making honey garlic cough syrup, making fire cider, pickling, or anything else you would do if you had 50 heads of American grown garlic. I’m planting Inchelium Red Softneck, again. I have my new canner I still haven’t opened.
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For those wanting to build out enterprises on their farm and homestead - bring in some side money or begin to build serious revenue to do it full time - get creative, bold and make it happen!
We are already looking to get our recipe done for a Cayenne hot sauce, maybe a Thai chili one (though harvest is difficult for those).
I’m ecstatic for what’s coming in 2027 and we are pushing onward to make this a full time agricultural business. It began with garlic and meat - and those are growing - and there is much more to come!
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Still producing and it’s almost the end of October!
This will be big for us next year. We have now an established restaurant client, a wholesale client we can work with and it’s going to continue!
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We’re working through the final tomato and pepper harvest tomorrow - late autumn is a unique period of extra farm work in preparation for the following season and a conclusion to the current.
Goodbye now and hello future.
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My eldest children are discussing marriage…
I’m losing my mind here. Help!
9 and 7. Help.
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Can’t make this up - that’s a Cornish cross chicken resting a top a boar.
The comedy of farm life is brilliant.
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We genuinely produce what is arguably some of the most nutrient dense meat possible - it's at the point of diminishing returns ecologically, health wise, nutritionally, etc.
And yet I find all food to be subjected to a degree of reasoning with regards to the permanence of the soul and the nature of the human person.
You do not need to strive for perfection in temporal nutrient intake. You do need to strive for perfection in holiness. And sometimes those seem in contrast.
I'll happily meet you at a fast food restaurant for a burger and a soda if it means we talk about what matters more than temporal sustenance. And there are so many instances of this.
For the daily nutritional needs of my family, friends, community and customers who I love dearly - I will produce the highest quality, best tasting food possible - mostly because I think it supports the latter - community and holiness.
People think I’m crazy…
Not just for chugging honey daily, but for how I travel in general. Idk if you’ve seen the reactions to me bringing coconuts through security.. 😅
But let me say this…
When you’re on the go without preparation, this is where it’s most likely for us to get tripped up.
You’re hungry and your only options are airport McDonald’s, Starbucks, or seed oil soaked bar food… BRUTAL.
For me, I’m just not taking that risk. Why?
My health is my #1 priority.
Feeling great is my #1 priority.
Mental clarity is my #1 priority
Sleeping well is my #1 priority.
I love the work I do. I love helping people heal themselves through diet. I love educating about how to live optimally. For that, I need to be sharp every single day, no excuses.
I love surfing, being in nature, moving my body, and having endless energy. I love feeling my absolute best. Adequately fueling my body to continue doing these things. It’s a non-negotiable.
I will never sacrifice how I perform and feel for a quick treat. I mean it when I say I haven’t had a cookie or slice of pizza in over 10 years.
Let me be clear… I do understand I am on the extreme end here 😂 but I think knowledge is power, and so many people are suffering today with chronic illness, obesity, diabetes, bloating, fatigue, low energy, brain fog and bad sleep.
Being INTENTIONAL about your diet is, in my opinion, the SINGLE most powerful lever you can pull to reverse all of these things.
So call me crazy all you want, but I’ll take crazy for daily mental clarity, focus, energy, and a life lived to the fullest.
Eat like a human. This is how you thrive.
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This is why we keep primarily dark feathered chickens.
Does it really make a difference - anecdotally it seems to work.
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In my adult life I had never eaten a pork chop because I only recall it being flavorless, tough and unpalatable.
Now, I savor a pork chop from our pigs - the quality difference is so incredible it makes me question much of modern meat supply.
The color is beautiful, the fat is delectable, the cooking quality is incredible. And i was so turned off from pork chops when we had our first pigs processed we skipped all pork chops.
The modern industrial meat supply does not favor what is optimal, but what is economic. Not what is healthful, but what is abundant and efficient for feeding masses.
I’m disappointed this is what it has come to be - our agricultural business will continue to grow and show a better way forward - out of respect for the dignity of the human person.
I would be excited for any of it but the pork would be the best, knowing where it comes from. We don't eat pork otherwise.
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Very excited to be included in this giveaway and looking forward to getting some of the highest quality meat shipped to a winner!
In the very near future our farm is expanding into new product lines - it’s happening slowly behind the scenes and so we will have much more to offer very soon.
Until that announcement is made - I am excited to be included amongst these people and their respective businesses as the commitment we have to quality American production is the same for them as well!
American Made Giveaway 🇺🇸
Christmas is in 67 days! We’re excited give away over $1,500 in American Made goods from small businesses across Vermont, Idaho, Virginia, Indiana, and Alabama. We’ve teamed up to give away a handcrafted leather rifle stock cover, set of hand carved Dreamware utensils, a beautiful wool pillow encased with organic American-grown cotton, an elegant Farmhouse Pottery taper candle holder, and a box of pasture-raised chicken or pork (your choice).
To enter for a chance to win something from one of these amazing small businesses:
1. Follow @thewoolshire, @OldHollowTree, @FrontPorchGoods, @Mathew_Winters1, and @polderfamily
2. Like and share this post
3. Comment and tell us what you’d be most excited to win from this incredible lineup
The purpose of this giveaway is to spread some cheer (there will be 5 winners!) and also to help each of you give quality, American Made gifts this year! It’s convenient to go shop at big box stores, but we all know how disappointing that usually turns out to be. Shop small and support real families; we know you’ll be thrilled with your purchases.
Bookmark this post so you can easily come back and shop with the small businesses that brought you this giveaway. The link to each of their websites is in their bio.
Open to the 48 contiguous states. Giveaway ends at 11:59pm EST on October 24, 2026.
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The presence of death is palpable in the countryside across small farms, homesteads and the roadways leading them to the cities.
It’s a bitter reality sanitized from much of modern life where people might not even recognize that beef comes from a cow that lived and breathed and grazed.
Where pets are afforded domestic lives longer than ever expected in nature - neither predator or starvation considered a possibility for many households.
In some ways I suspect this is one of the challenges of modern man - where death is forgotten, rarely considered or not regularly wrestled it can become a mere though or idea - somewhere far off in the future or reserved for others, not me.
This is one of the greatest gifts I have experienced from the rural life - I did experience a unique amount of family death at a young age due to a terminal illness passed through to myself (though I am not afflicted), but even then it was isolated to a few instances - a friend passing young here, grandparents, a cousin, etc.
But out here, death is everywhere. The forest is littered with bones from animals, the roadway captured many lives of the domesticated and wildlife.
My children experience this and it builds strength in them and a natural awareness that death comes for us all. And that the value of the life of a human is inherently dignified and yet we must all ponder and be prepared to die, and to die well.
This cat passed yesterday cross the street, I’ll bury him today. I was more upset sharing the news with my children as they cherished that cat.
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