Here’s the weekly roundup from Watson Farms and your direct connection to your farmer. Enjoy the latest edition of Pasture Posts!
Ag+Art Tour is Coming!
We wanted to make sure you knew about an upcoming opportunity to tour Watson Farms! We’ve participated in the Ag+Art Tour for a number of years now and it has been successful each time. We love the opportunity to offer a level of transparency that is rare in agriculture today, and we love having the various discussions with you as we travel across the farm seeing various groups of livestock.
Isn’t it interesting that regenerative farms often welcome transparency while industrial farms despise it? The fact that we can stand amongst our pigs or chickens or cows and barely smell anything is a big reason why we enjoy showing our farm to people. Compare that to the fact that many people don’t even want to be within a mile of a factory farm due to the stench. Of course, this is fine with the contract growers as their integrators make them sign contracts that preclude the general public from being allowed on these industrial farms anyway. We believe that when animals are raised correctly, the result is farm that is aesthetically and aromatically pleasing. In other words farms should be people-friendly.
So please make plans to come to Watson Farms on Saturday, June 24 from 10am to 4pm as part of the Ag+Art Tour! We will have vendors, a food truck, and hay rides around the farm. We also encourage you to tour other farms in various counties around South Carolina. Head over to their site for more details!
Stay tuned for more details coming next week!
Farm Photos of the Week
The cattle herd has done a wonderful job preparing the pasture for these young broilers who were turned out to pasture this week. They do better when the grass is short and the cows know exactly what to do when the grass is tall – EAT! The result of mob grazing followed by broiler groups over time has been a plethora of volunteer white clover in this particular field which is excellent forage for any of our animals and the bees love it too!
Product Spotlight
Last Chance! Tomorrow is the end of our big Pasture Picks Promotion where we are offering a free whole broiler with any new Pasture Picks Box signups. We’ve seen a good response so far, and we look for even more of you to take advantage of this great offer as word gets around. Check out the video below for some great information about our farm and this special deal!
Order Deadlines and Store Hours
Here’s a friendly reminder to get your orders in by the deadline. We have changed our workflow some to help reduce errors, so we have to begin the process of staging orders for the next day’s delivery very soon after the deadlines below. Help us serve you better by ensuring your order is placed in time!
Charleston Area: 12 noon Mondays
UPS Orders: 12 noon Mondays
Columbia Area deliveries now occur on Wednesdays.
Deadline for the Columbia Area: 12 noon on Tuesdays
GSP: 12 noon on Wednesdays
Charlotte/Fort Mill/Rock Hill Areas: 12 noon on Fridays
Farm Pickup: Please wait until you receive an email stating that your order is ready to be picked up (usually 1 business day from when you place your order). Farm pickup is done during store hours:
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 10am to 6pm
Saturday: 10am to 2pm
Closed Sunday and Wednesday
Tell a Friend!
It’s now easier than ever to Give $15 and Get $15 through our Referral Program. We don’t spend a lot of money of advertising, but rather we focus on producing products that people love and are willing to tell others about. So we depend on word of mouth to find new customers and ultimately to heal more land.
So in an effort to streamline this process we have made it easier to tell others (via email, Facebook, or Twitter) about Watson Farms. And it’s all automated on the backend, so you don’t have to rely on us to issue the store credits manually. Just head over to our Referrals Page and start sharing!
Did you know that we have a webpage that displays all the reviews we have received?
Check it out!
Check out this ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review:
“I ordered several different cuts of beef from them. They were all excellent. Delivery went smoothly. Everything was packaged well and cleanly. I’ll definitely be a regular customer and look forward to trying their other products like ham. It’s nice to be able to buy from a local, family farm.”
We would greatly appreciate it if you would be kind enough to leave us a review. It helps first-time customers purchase with confidence.
Thanks again for being partners in this endeavor of local, pasture-raised proteins that has truly transformed our farm. We look forward to continuing this transition while serving you long into the future.
Sincerely,
The Watsons
Pasture Posts is written by Matt Watson.
[…] Last week we briefly discussed how on our farm, we can literally stand in the middle of thousands of chickens and smell next to nothing. This is due to the mobility of all of our animals which keeps grass under them instead of manure like in the industry. This is one aspect of a regenerative farm that is inviting rather than repulsing. […]