At Nectar Hills Farm our goal is to provide food with great vitality that
imparts health and well being. Food being the fuel of our very existence has a
huge effect on our overall health. We can't do this alone. We need the SUPPORT
and COMMITMENT of our community. Your membership will help us tremendously to
deal with the winter, season that is always challenging in more than one way. We
need to make our second cutting of hay and hire somebody to do it, buy the grain
we need for the winter, repair/tune up the tractors and fix the manure cleaner
in the barn. We also have a very OLD FARM HOUSE that still needs a lot of work
to be warm and comfortable. We have to finish a chimney in the living room,
replace a couple of front doors and repair quite a few windows in the house and
in the barn. Of course we have to mention that we also need a newer car since
our truck is on its last leg.
There are 3 levels of membership:
It's easy to become a member, as soon as you send the fee for your membership, you have the freedom to get your goods in any way it fits you and your family. With the full share you could get around 120 lbs of meat. The next one will give you 70 lbs of meat and the single share 30 lbs. Some customers like to get 1/2 or 1/4 of a cow to fill their freezers for the winter, while others prefer to get a combination of different kinds of meat on a weekly or monthly basis, it is up to you.
With winter coming, it is good to think about filling up your freezer and get ready for cooking great roasts and broths, soups and stews.
You can come and get your share anytime at the farm by calling and setting an appointment (contact info here), on weekends in our store in Cherry Valley or at the farmer's market in Cooperstown. There is no expiration date for your share, it is good until you spend your balance.
By becoming a member, you are committed to Nectar Hills Farm and investing in a healthy future.
We would like to share with you some of our thoughts on farming, nutrition, community, etc. because we think it is important for you to know your farmers, who we are and what we believe in.
In the times we are living in, with the problems we are facing in the future, we think it is very important to get involved and to be informed about where our food comes from and where our money goes, especially on issues like genetically modified seeds, feedlot beef, How many miles has the food travelled? How was it produced? Pesticides? Fertilizers? Drugs? Hormones?
Currently our farm is certified organic but our goal is to become certified biodynamic by Demeter. Biodynamic agriculture was develop by Rudolf Steiner in the 1920s.
"...Nutrition as it is today, does not supply the strength necessary for manifesting the spirit in physical life. A bridge can no longer be built from spirit to thinking to will and action. Food plants no longer contain the forces people need for this."
This is Rudolf Steiner's quote to a question from one of his students during the agriculture lectures.
He also said that when the science and medical community realize how the constellations and the starry world affect the substances on Earth, they could cure many illnesses, or adulterate the food to control the masses.
Carl Stegmann, in his book
The Other America
A long time ago, friends and I were on a biodynamically run farm. The owner of the farm showed us a small square plot of land divided into 4 equal parts. Four different people had sown wheat - each on one square. The soil was the same on all four, it had been worked the same way, the weather conditions were identical. All four took their seeds from the same sack of wheat. Only the four human beings differed from each other. And the half-grown plants on the field's four sections were just as different. On one, they had grown quite tall. On another, they were still small; on yet another, growth seemed stunted and in delicate shape. On one, the plants were strong and healthy. It made quite an impression when the farmer said: "For once, I wanted to determine a person's influence on a plant."
Something flows from a person into plants. Rudolf Steiner stated in the agriculture lecture:
"The delicate pulsations inherent in a person's life of will and attitude will increasingly blend with, and fit into what a man produces. It will not be a matter of indifference whether you receive a prepared substance from one person or another."
A basic and healthy economy is based on land, labor and goods. We are giving up all our power to big banks, big food companies, pharmaceutical companies, letting the speculators play with our future. The same way knowledge and prevention is true health insurance instead of giving up our power to a third party, to take care of us. To awaken to social responsibility you should start with your local community, growing our food, improving our educational systems and our way of life.
