So when his family's farm became available, they bought it. How many of us have wanted to do something like that? Purchase the place where we grew up? Well, they went and did it. Now they live and work in the Chicago suburbs during the week and hang out at the farm on weekends.
Needless to say they have help. There's the guy who plants the fields and brings in the crops. And another guy who tends to the cows. That's because they decided to raise grass fed Angus and harvest [the new euphemism for slaughter] a few from time to time for people who have room [and money] for half a side of organic beef in their homes. Meanwhile, they've been focused on completely renovating the original farmhouse and outbuildings.
I tasted the beef and it's delicious. I have also tried Bill Kurtis' Tall Grass beef, but that beef tastes like fescue in comparison. As if someone took a perfectly good piece of meat, then covered it with the smell of grass clippings.
With the farmers' markets getting under way, I just thought it would be nice to show some solidarity with a way of life that's fast becoming extinct -- the family farm. I love the barn they restored. And they added this Amish fence.
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