Farm Tours & Hopes for First Calves
- Allie@FoothillFrolicFarm
- Apr 3
- 4 min read
SPRING FARM TOUR & TASTING DATES
First thing first....we want to remind everyone about our Spring Tour Line Up and we hope that if you are a new mailing list subscriber or have been thinking about signing up for one of our wonderful Live Animal Custom Beef Shares, you will SIGN UP and come on out and join us to learn more and see for yourself what we are all about!
Or it could be you are already a Custom Beef Shareholder and have never gotten to make it out for a Farm Tour yet and you have been wanting to...please take hold of the perfect opportunity, especially if you do not think you will be able to make it to the custom beef shareholder Spring Fair, Preview Day.
Our first up and coming Farm Tour is just around the corner and will be this Saturday, April the 5th from 2-4 pm. The weather is to be abnormally warm, in the upper 80's and not raining so that makes for a wonderful early spring tour day!
If you are already a Custom Beef Shareholder and have placed an Order for the 2025-2026 custom beef season, you can bypass the farm tours because you are invited to join us for our first annual Exclusive Shareholder Spring Fair, Preview Day. Please keep the weekend of April 25th, 26th, 27th open and on your calendars. As we get closer to the date, we will narrow down to one of these dates based on weather and animal rotations.
Spring does seem to have arrived, but very slowly this year. Impart due to the real winter season that consisted of consistent freezing winter temperatures, to the lack of precipitation in the last weeks of winter and early spring, and to the unknown seasonal beauty that makes every years seasons unique and magical. Grasses and wild spring growth seem to be a little behind this year from an observational standpoint.
The end of season dryness though we hope has taken a new leaf as spring rains are becoming the new and desired norm. We had our best soak of 1.2" on the last day of March and it appears that we have a wonderful chance of getting another wonderful soaking this weekend on Sunday. Rains mixed with this added warmth really will amplify the warming of the soil and its living biome to create the marvelous blanket of living green that we here at Foothill Frolic Farm can never get enough of! Brilliant fresh and lime green hues, shimmering amidst the sunshine and breezes of the East TN landscape, with cattle dotted within, always brings about such a feeling of positive and renewing energy. Sunlight, Soil, Bacteria & Fungus, Water, Insects, Grass, Tree, Bird, Cattle, Human....Ten broad and simple components within a renewable, organic closed system cycle....CARING, NOURISHING, and FEEDING!
All of our herds are gently starting their quick and broad spring rotations and we are all happy about that.
Currently we are awaiting our main cow herd's seasonal show of spring calving. Each year we have managed our main cow herd to calf one week later, with hopes of not calving till the first day of spring. Well this year we made a 2-3 week jump, and not intentionally per se. So any day now we are hoping for calves to start popping out left and right, from up to down and all a round. If all goes well we are hoping for our Mamma's to birth about 58 spring calves and 10 fall calves.
A Slider of Photos of just a glimpse of our expecting Mamma's...Dot Spot, Swiss Girl, Milkseed, Crossing Khaki, Sweet Gallienne, Birthday Snowfall, Bhrama Mamma 20, Twin Mamma, Morning Glory, First of Fall Rambler Mamma, Spring, L12, Dazzle Dash, Lickidisplit Mamma, Garden Call, Lovely Lady L10, High Tail, Black Joy, and Gemima May
To keep this Journal Post short and sweet, best photo summation from the past month...
Eastenn Dutch free play amidst work, Cleaning and putting Sign back up after super strong winds took it down, Centered Sun within circle of 2024 calves, Spring Pear Blooms and Steer Herd, Fire in the sky at Dusk with Heifer Herd, Frosty Spring Enjoying her hay, Yoga in the forest, 2024 calves cozy and resting, Many Manure Spreading Days, Holston Mt. in background of Heifer Herd on Maple View, Calves on Pose in Forest, Rainbow Bright highlighted in front, Shagbark Hickory and 2024 calf.
LIVE ANIMAL CUSTOM BEEF SHARE AVAILABILITY
....ORDER NOW
Lastly but not Least, after making sure all folks that had signed up for our waiting list have had the opportunity to place their live animal custom beef shares for this up and coming 2025-2026 season, that will run from harvest starting in July of 2025 all the way through March of 2026, we still have some custom beef shares available and have opened our Live Animal Custom Beef Shop up now to new customers! Please take this opportunity to place your Order soon if you have not got your order in yet or have been thinking about placing an order. Apologies if somehow we missed you or you never knew the Custom Beef Shop was open and the good news is is that you can order now. We are currently filled up, all the way until January of 2026. It is pertinent to think ahead and place your order now before all our available live animal custom beefs are sold and spoken for.
ONE PER SEASON, YOUNG COW POP UP OFFERING...
Also, just right around the corner, we will be harvesting our, one per season, Young Cow "Crazy" Pop Up on April 22nd. Her cuts will be sold are individually by cut and per pound at pick up, but all her available cuts are listed in our Beef Shop for PreOrder. Lots of Cuts have already sold out, but here is what is still available below. Hopefully her cuts will be available for on farm pick up around May the 9th.
Until Next Time, Eat Well and Be Well and Please Pass Along through your favorite media!,
(even though we have held off on having a social media presence, we are perfectly fine for our readers to share.)
Allison Mills Neal of Foothill Frolic Farm
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