Category: Pasture Posts

We want to wish all the mothers out there a Happy Mother’s Day!

Here’s the weekly roundup from Watson Farms and your direct connection to your farmer. Enjoy the latest edition of Pasture Posts!

We are excited to announce a month-long promotion for new Pasture Picks Subscription Box sign ups. Check out this informative video with some great scenes from the farm as well as all the details of this special offer.

Did you know that as soon as you subscribe to a Pasture Picks box your price is locked in for the life of your subscription? This is a great feature in times of inflation like we have seen in the past several years. Our Pasture Picks Boxes receive a great discount as well with the average discount being in the $15-$20 range.

Redeeming this offer of a free whole chicken with your first Pasture Picks Box is as easy as adding a product to your cart. The system will automatically add the free whole broiler to your cart!

If you’re in one of our 4 Home Delivery areas (GSP, Columbia, Charleston, or CLT/York County) or wish to pick up at the farm then use the Pasture Picks Box for Home Delivery/Farm Pickup. If you are in another area within the 21 states we serve via UPS then select one of the two UPS Eligible Pasture Picks Boxes.

Pasture Picks Box

This version is available for Farm Pickup and to anyone located in any of our Home Delivery zones. You may also add on eggs!

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Pasture Picks Box (UPS)

This version can be shipped to over 20 states in the Eastern, U.S. We have a 15 and 30 pound version. Tap below to order now.

15-pound Pasture Picks Box (UPS)

30-pound Pasture Picks Box (UPS)

Continue reading A Special Offer for new Pasture Picks Subscribers! – Pasture Posts #116

Here’s the weekly roundup from Watson Farms and your direct connection to your farmer. Enjoy the latest edition of Pasture Posts!

Spring Farm Day went very well yesterday, and we’re thankful to everyone that was involved in making it a success from our staff, the vendors, and you! Here’s a quick video with some special notes from Kelly!

Also check out this video that shows our cow herd being moved across the road to a new paddock. As we discussed on the hayride yesterday, movement is key to regenerating soils!

Continue reading Spring Farm Day Was a Success! – Pasture Posts #114

Here’s the weekly roundup from Watson Farms and your direct connection to your farmer. Enjoy the latest edition of Pasture Posts!

For this edition of Pasture Posts we wanted to turn your attention to a blog series we are writing that gives a layer of transparency that doesn’t exist on many other farms. We call it Today’s Paddock, and each post features a certain group of animals on a certain day. This kind of content gives you a precise, nearly real-time look at how our animals are living at a given time, and our hope is that over time this series will provide an excellent view of the movement and various grazing methods of our livestock.

In these posts we provide data like the type of livestock, how many acres the particular paddock is, and what type of grass is being grazed. We also provide an aerial view with an outline of the approximate paddock, and a current photo of the animals in the paddock.

Can you imagine how mundane this would be if a confinement farm were to do something similar? The turkeys, chickens, pigs, or cattle are in the same barn or pen day after day. No movement, no new scenery, no pasture.

Take a look at some of the posts from the series below and let us know what you think!

Continue reading Transparency in the Food System – Pasture Posts #112

Here’s the weekly roundup from Watson Farms and your direct connection to your farmer. Enjoy the latest edition of Pasture Posts!

We thought for this week’s edition of Pasture Posts we would give you a quick rundown of some things we’ve been up to the last couple weeks as well as a great opportunity to help us out while saving big on our pastured chicken!

Kelly, the kids, and I were able to have a getaway this past week when we visited Cape Canaveral, FL, and Kennedy Space Center. We greatly appreciate our whole team who stepped up to fill the void here at the farm. It’s great knowing that all the tasks will get done when we’re not around and that can only happen with talented, committed team members that care about what they do here at Watson Farms. Thanks guys for keeping everything running so smoothly!

Before we left for Florida we gave our team an opportunity to get together for a meal and a hayride here at the farm. Our team members don’t get many chances to get together like that, and we thought it would be beneficial for everyone to see the production end and hear some history of Watson Farms.

If you and your family would be interested in a similar experience then be sure to make plans to attend our Spring Farm Day on April 29! See more details below!

As we have grown our number of walk in freezers has grown as well. We recently found a great remote-monitoring option that will notify our team if any one unit’s temperature gets out of preset parameters. This takes a great deal of time and hassle of so many daily checks off our table and frees us up to do other things. It also helps me sleep better knowing that I’ll be alerted if a freezer starts to warm.

Moving on to some of what our animals have been up to, the cows truly have it made right now. They are enjoying some of the best forage that can be grown as they graze a mixture of oats, ryegrass, rye, clover, vetch, as well as a variety of other volunteer annual and perennial grasses and legumes.

We recently had our largest UPS pickup ever with around 22 boxes going out! You can see the stack of boxes in the slideshow below. UPS has done a great job in expanding our reach to customers throughout the eastern U.S. Thanks to all those UPS customers for supporting us. We’re glad you found us and we look forward to continuing to ship the best pasture raised meats to you!

Check out the slideshow below!

Continue reading Farm Happenings – Pasture Posts #110

Here’s the weekly roundup from Watson Farms and your direct connection to your farmer. Enjoy the latest edition of Pasture Posts!

The onslaught of misdirection in the egg industry continues with Kroger’s latest iteration of a confinement egg factory.  

Their newest confinement egg complex makes an attempt to mimic the chicken’s natural environment by providing a forest-edge effect with tree-like structures, “natural enrichment,” and a “playground.”  The truth is, of course, that the birds only have access to this “enriched” environment during certain times during a 24 hour period.  You can see this by viewing their webcams during the early morning hours when the hens are shut in the nest box section of the barn. 

Farms should be a vibrant community of people working together towards a common goal of producing food or fiber responsibly with the consumer’s best interest in mind.

And, of course, this stationary confinement barn doesn’t have one blade of grass visible.  They cover for this by claiming that chickens are forest birds and get nervous when they are in open pasture.  While there is some truth to this, the fact is that steps can and should be taken to ensure the chickens’ safety while foraging.  Steps that we take in this regard are 24/7 guard dogs and our mobile pasture coop that the chickens can run back to at any time.  

Take a look at the video and photos from this week which show our laying hens right after we moved them from their winter housing into their mobile pasture coops for the growing season. 

Continue reading A Closer Look at Another Egg Claim – Pasture Posts #108