Animal Husbandry<\/strong><\/p>\n15. Do you keep livestock? Yes<\/p>\n
16. What animals do you keep?<\/p>\n
Chickens (list breeds): Cornish X for meat
\nDifferent Layers every year currently Australorps and mixes<\/p>\n
Ducks (list breeds): Mixed laying breeds<\/p>\n
Turkeys (list breeds): Commercial broad breast (usually bronze)
\nHeritage Narraganset and Burbons<\/p>\n
Other Poultry (list type and breeds): Christmas Geese (last year Toulouse<\/p>\n
Cows (list breeds): Mixed Breeds including Hereford, Simmental, Limousin, Jersey and etc.<\/p>\n
Goats (list breeds):<\/p>\n
Pigs (list breeds): Mixed including Large Black, Duroc, Berkshire, Old Spot, Hampshire and etc<\/p>\n
Sheep (list breeds): Mixed, including Texcel Ram<\/p>\n
Other Animals (list type and breeds):<\/p>\n
17. Do you use antibiotics? No<\/p>\n
18. Are the animals pasture-fed? Yes<\/p>\n
19. How much and for how long: Animals live on pasture year round.<\/p>\n
20. Do you practice managed grazing? Yes<\/p>\n
21. Do you apply compost or compost tea? Yes<\/p>\n
22. Do you apply other soil amendments? No<\/p>\n
23. Do you use supplemental feed?<\/p>\n
For poultry (list type): Mixed feed, served wet and fermented including (and by percent weight):
\nSpent Brewing Grain
\nNon-gmo Corn
\nWheat byproducts
\nFlax
\nSunflower
\nOats
\nFishmeal
\nKelp
\nAragonite<\/p>\n
Summer vegetables especially zucchini<\/p>\n
For cows, sheep, and\/or goats (list type): Local Winter Hay
\nIntermittent Spent Brewing Grain
\nWhite Salt Block
\nKelp<\/p>\n
For pigs (list type): See poultry<\/p>\n
Also, various planted crops including corn, brassicas (rape, turnips etc) winter squash\/pumpkins, and zucchini
\nRestaurant vegetable cuttings
\nBrewers Yeast<\/p>\n
Raw Milk<\/strong><\/p>\n24. Do you supply raw milk? No<\/p>\n
25. Do you keep your barn and milk room clean?<\/p>\n
26. Do you keep the cows clean\/teats washed?<\/p>\n
27. Do you thoroughly wash your milking equipment after every milking?<\/p>\n
28. Are cows with mastitis or other health problems excluded from milking?<\/p>\n
29. Are cows tested for disease?
\nWhich tests, and how often:<\/p>\n
30. Is the milk routinely tested for pathogens, coliform count?
\nWhich tests, and how often:<\/p>\n
31. Is the farm water routinely tested?<\/p>\n
32. Are milk and milk products kept well chilled?<\/p>\n
33. Other\/Explain (list any other routine practices, or explain any of your answers above?<\/p>\n
Butchering Practices<\/strong><\/p>\n34. Do you sell milk? No<\/p>\n
35. Meat butchered at a USDA-certified or state-certified abattoir? Yes<\/p>\n
36. Meat butchered on the farm? Yes<\/p>\n
37. Describe or explain any butchering practices: Poultry are processed on site by us, using clean practices, many rinses and prompt cold dunk in water. Products are vacuum packed and sold in parts or whole.<\/p>\n
Farm Products<\/strong><\/p>\n38. Please check off the products you sell and list current prices<\/p>\n
Raw whole milk:<\/p>\n
Raw butter:<\/p>\n
Raw cream:<\/p>\n
Raw ice cream:<\/p>\n
Raw sour cream:<\/p>\n
Raw yogurt:<\/p>\n
Raw kefir:<\/p>\n
Raw cottage cheese:<\/p>\n
Whey:<\/p>\n
Cheese (list types):<\/p>\n
Other dairy (list):<\/p>\n
Beef\/veal: Ground Beef $7\/lb
\nGround Sirloin $8.50\/lb
\n1\/3lb Hamburger Patties(4pack)$9.50\/each
\nRib Steak, Rolled Rump, Sirloin, Flank, Skirt $9.00\/lb
\nBrisket,\u00a0 Cube Steak,Chuck Roast,English Roast, Kabobs\/Stew, Tongue $7.50\/lb
\nT-Bone, Porterhouse, NY Strip $12.00\/lb
\nTenderloin\u00a0\u00a0 $16.00\/lb
\nLiver, Heart $4.00\/lb<\/p>\n
Pork: FRESH PORK
\nSausage (Italian and Breakfast),
\nGround Pork\u00a0 $7.00\/lb
\nBulk Sausage or Ground Pork (10 +lbs)\u00a0 $6.50\/lb
\nSausage Links Italian or Breakfast\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 $9.00\/lb
\nMaple Sausage $9.00\/lb (local)
\nBratwurst, Kielbasa, Italian Brat $9.50\/lb (local)
\nPork Steak, Pork Chops, Boston Butt,
\nHam Roast, Shoulder Roast, Country Style Ribs\u00a0\u00a0 $7.50\/lb
\nLoin,\u00a0Bnls Pork Chops, Cutlets\u00a0$8.50\/lb
\nSpare Ribs\u00a0$5.00\/lb
\nBaby Back Ribs $7.00\/lb
\nTenderloin $13.00\/lb
\nBones $1.50\/lb
\nLiver, Heart, Lard\u00a0$4.00\/lb
\nSMOKED PORK
\nSmoked Hock $5.00\/lb
\nBacon\u00a0$9.50\/lb
\nJowl Bcn,Cottage Bcn,Lunchmeat $9.00\/lb
\nHam, Smoked Loin $8.50\/lb
\nCanadian Bacon\u00a0$5.00\/pkg(1\/2lb packages)<\/p>\n
Goat\/kid:<\/p>\n
Mutton\/lamb: Shank\u00a0\u00a0$9.00\/lb
\nStew Meat, ground\u00a0$10.00\/lb
\nLeg Roast\u00a0$12.00\/lb
\nBoneless Leg, Chops, Rack $14.00\/lb<\/p>\n
Other meat:<\/p>\n
Chicken: Whole $4\/lb
\nDrum $5\/lb
\nThigh, Liver $7\/lb
\nBreast $11\/lb
\nFeet, Backs $2\/lb
\nStewing Hen $3\/lb<\/p>\n
Duck: Duck $5\/lb
\nWhole Only<\/p>\n
Turkey: Turkey $5\/lb
\nThanksgiving Only<\/p>\n
Other poultry: Geese $5\/lb
\nChristmas only<\/p>\n
Eggs (list type, chicken, duck, etc) : Chicken $5\/doz
\nDuck $6\/doz<\/p>\n
Honey: Offered in Mason Jars
\n1\/2 pint $5
\npint $9
\nquart $16<\/p>\n
Produce (list typical offerings): Please inquire<\/p>\n
Prepared foods (list typical offerings):<\/p>\n
Other: Raw wool
\nSheepskins<\/p>\n
Additional Information<\/strong><\/p>\n39. Do you only sell animals that are raised on your farm at the address listed?
\nYes<\/p>\n
39a. Details:
\nEverything we sell is from our farm<\/p>\n
40. Are the animals born on your farm at the address listed? Yes<\/p>\n
40a. Details:
\nWe occasionally buy animals directly from other farmers to grow our farm, but are careful about what farm they come from; and always have a substantial waiting period on our farm.<\/p>\n
41. Do you ever purchase animals from auctions or from your processor or do you ever buy parts from your processor (whole pork bellies…)? No<\/p>\n
41a. Details:
\n[textarea farm_41a]<\/p>\n
42. Do you personally attend to your animals at least once a day or do you hire help or farmers to do that for you? Personally Attend<\/p>\n
42a. Details:
\n[textarea farm_42a]<\/p>\n
43. Do you purchase pre-mixed feed from an elevator or do you grind your own? Purchase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1. Name of farm: Provision Family Farm 2. Farmer’s\/Farm Family name: Luke and Caitlin Eising 3. Street address: 5274 E 6 Mile Rd. 4. City: White Cloud 5. State (2-letter abbreviation): MI 6. Zip: 49349 7. Phone number:\u00a0231 689 0457 8. Email:\u00a0provisionfamilyfarms@gmail.com 9. Website:\u00a0provisionfamilyfarms.com Type of Farm\/Farm Practices 10. Are you Certified Organic? No 11….<\/p>\n
Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":26,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-545","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/grandrapidsmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/grandrapidsmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/grandrapidsmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/grandrapidsmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/grandrapidsmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/grandrapidsmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/grandrapidsmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}