Premium Grind for the Holidays...ORDER NOW
- Allie@FoothillFrolicFarm
- 13 hours ago
- 6 min read
Before much ado, Foothill Frolic Farm on Gammon Creek wants to announce our very unique Holiday and New Year Beef Pop Up. As QTY will be limited to this ONE "Boss Cow", L5 offering, it is advisable to get your Order in as soon as possible to ensure availability.
To read all about this PREMIUM WHOLE BEEF GRIND, the Beautiful "Boss Cow" and to be able to PLACE YOUR ORDER just click on the Products Below.
Keep in Mind, all orders are really just PreOrder Holds and Payment will happen manually when you pick up your order On Farm.
The good note about this PreOrder Pop UP is that pick ups will start very soon, just in time for the best of beef eatings, for Holiday times with family and friends.
The First Round of On Farm Pick Ups will begin on Saturday December the 13th and will go through Tuesday Dec. 23rd. Pick Up Time Daily during this time runs from 5:00pm - 6:00pm.
The Second Round of Pick Ups will start on Jan. 9th, 2026 and run through Jan. 18th, 2026. Pick Up time Daily during this time runs form 5:00 pm- 6:00 pm.
The "Boss Cow" Pop Up products will make for wonderful 'Locally Sourced', 'Environmentally Avid' and 'Farm Based' Holiday and New Year Gifts... highlighting shear utilitarian purpose at its finest!!
Plus, for those of you whom have signed up for our custom beef share waiting list, this "Boss Cow" Pop Up offering is a great opportunity to be able to finally try and enjoy our delicious, high quality 100% grassfed-grassfinished-regenerative-organically raised beef before any possible share openings might be available for our 2026-2027 season that will run from July 2026-February of 2027.
Also, I know a lot of you, our existing shareholder customers, are always asking to let you know if, ever and when we have extra ground beef for sell, so here is your opportunity to stock up so your supplies do not run low before your next season's custom beef share pick up!
Now that the "Boss Cow" Pop Up is Live, Announced, and Available. Let me share a few recaps from our summer and fall seasons. The summer proved to be the most hot, humid, and wet summer season over the last 6 year period I can remember. These conditions of course had a plus side and a minus side. Our three herds grazed endlessly in their rotations on the lush tall jungle like grass, all summer long, but they as well had to endure the thick humid and hot conditions, just like we did and they are covered in black fur! We had our biggest haying year ever, banking in over 1,000 large round bales of cured and stored beautiful grasses, clovers, and herby wild plants, but because of the frequent rains, we cut hay practically every 4 day dry opportunity we had, starting on May 23rd and going till mid October. This was tremendous for our family crew of my Dad, my little boy Eastenn Dutch, myself, and my husband Matthew. There was really no delineation in between first cuttings and second cuttings, we just kept cutting till we made a complete round. Almost all hay fields this year only had to only be cut once, so this was a positive rest year for all of the hay fields, as one cutting actually got to go back to the ground, which is beneficial for long term management of fertility.
It seemed like in between cattle rotations, harvesting, customer pick ups, hay cuttings, and all the other odd ended farm chores and occurrences like fence maintenance and equipement blow outs, etc, etc...We were at it all the time, and our mantra seemed to fall on the long standing saying...."no rest for the weary." (of course other than when we do sleep at night, haha)
Our Custom Beef Season started off with our first harvest on July 17th and we are about to be on our 6th Harvest Date of December 22nd. This year we are harvesting 6 beefs at a time, once a month. It has been another wonderful season of beef shares and customers and as always we are very thankful for both our wonderful beef cattle herds and our delighted customers.
Here is a link to our View the Beef Cattle Page on our website, in order to showcase the beefs we have harvested this year thus far. Each Custom Beef here at Foothill Frolic Farm gets acknowledged with a brief story of their place and time here on the farm.
This year our Mamma Cows produced 60 beautiful calves and for our 2025 born calves we choose for them a red tag color. They have yet to be weened and are still roaming and being hay fed within their Cow/Calf herd. So currently, and like always we have our current beef season 2 year olds pictured with orange tags. Then we have our one year olds that will be our beefs for our next season and they have turquoise tags, and last but not least are the youngest ones born this year with the red tags.
We all turned a year older, Dad 81, Matthew 52, Me 45, and Eastenn Dutch 11. My Mom, I will not mention, as she wouldn't want to be included in the age reveal anyways, but nonetheless, time keeps a movin on and we keep rollin with it. In the below photo slide there is a favorite birthday photo of Eastenn Dutch and I during our birthday celebrations in the late summer. In one of those strong rain and electrical storms this summer we lost a dear and fine and ancient white oak tree that has adorned the bottom along an old lane for centuries. That night was a night for us all to remember as we also found ourselves out on our back hillside with pellting rains and bolts of lightenting, trying to bring in a Mamma and her calf to the barn. We made it and the Mamma and calf made it, but the old oak tree did not have the same fate.
This is the first year I have noticed that I am getting older, as I felt those repetitive manual work motions within my body more than I ever have before, which made me more aware of all the physicalities of year end and year out farming and understanding the need of adding in a little mindful self care to make sure my body holds up till I am the 81 year old farmer like my Dad!! With doing work I love, running, working hard and eating well, I have often thought of myself as slightly invincible, but the year of 2025 was a good reminder that I am not in my 20's or 30's anymore and I think that as a mid 40's woman I might have to be a little more mindful of my normal full on, go at it approach!! HAHA.
Eastenn Dutch had much fun this summer with getting out the old 1950's IH square baler and New Holland Rake and putting up his own small plot of hay with some friends. He also operated his first go at running the large round balers and by the end of the season was completely proficient.
We started feeding some supplemental hay around mid November to our herds and now are practically in full swing winter hay feeding mode. The late fall has been very mild and the ground has come know where near freezing yet. We finally dried out a bit during the fall when we could have had a little bit more fresh forage growth, which is why we had to start supplementing hay feeding come mid November otherwise we would have made it till first of December I believe. The last couple weeks have been wet and dreary over all and so the lovely sunshine today is a marvelous beauty to the senses!
I did not take near as many pictures this year, in our busyness, but here are a few highlighted photos during summer and fall of us and our herds!
Until Next Time, Eat Well and Be Well and have a lovely and dear Holiday Season 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
Comments