Chase's Organic Dairy - Farm Blog

The spreader arrived and we can now begin spreading the wood ash from New England Organics.  The wood ash helps balance soil PH and adds nutrients like magnesium and potassium to the soil.  It’s similar to putting lime on the ground.  Vaughn and Lew are very impressed with the big spreader and wish they had [...]

Well, today is the last day of September and that means it’s the last day of our organic contract.  We will be shipping our milk conventionally for a bit.  We hope to have everything in place to ship organic milk again in about a month’s time.   Maine’s Own Organic Milk Company (MOO Milk Co.) is [...]

Someone is doing better today!
If you look closely, you should see her milk mustache, or rather a milk beard?  Regardless, we are very relieved that she is strong enough today to feed herself some of her mother’s milk.  Thanks, McKenna family, for helping us locate a lamb bottle to feed her with yesterday.  “Lucky” didn’t [...]

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A moose must have gone through the fence again.  We had just gotten home from the barn when a neighbor called to let us know a couple of cows were out on the crossroad.  Thanks go out to Steve, Larry and Leslie, who hung around and – not only didn’t let any more cows get [...]

No matter how early they start the day, sometimes Vaughn and Lew still need to be at the barn late at night… to help bring a new calf into the world. Welcome, little one! She had a difficult birth but is doing very well now.

The barn kitties are growing and changing every day, and are having lots of fun with each other.  We all enjoy watching their antics.  They also serve an importance purpose on our organic farm.  Our barn cats catch lots of mice and even an occasional rat, eliminating the need to use poisonous chemicals on the [...]

We were sitting in front of the milk house drinking coffee after chores one morning, looking at the hole under the manure stacker and thinking it was about that time of year again when we would need to have a few loads of gravel hauled in to level it up.  Too bad we have to [...]