Lau Family Farm Grass-fed meats available on March 12th and 19th
Lori Anne Lau
LAU FAMILY FARM, LLC
Grass-Fed and Finished * No Antibiotics * No Hormone Implants
o March 12th: Salt Lake City @ Rio Grande Depot Winter Market - 10 am to 2 pm
o March 12th: Ogden @ 4 pm in the parking lot behind Grounds for Coffee and Pizza Runner (30th and Harrison)
o March 19th: Logan @ Crumb Brothers Bakery - 9 to 10:30 am
o March 19th: Pocatello @ 420 N Main - 1:30 to 2 pm
o March 19th: Idaho Falls @ Key Bank Parking lot along Broadway - 3:30 to 4:30pm
· We have a good supply of most every cut of lamb and beef, with the exception of marrow bones. Pre-orders are encouraged but not required.
· We are able to take additional quarter and half beef orders, as well as whole and half lamb orders. We are looking at delivery dates in approx. May for these orders.
· We have some meat lambs that were treated with antibiotics when they were very young that we need to find homes for. If you are interested in this antibiotic treated but grass-fed, non-hormone implanted, dry aged lamb let us know. The antibiotics were administered 10-11 months ago. We are looking at a 10% discount on these animals ($5.40 per carcass lb).
· We have several bone-in half leg roasts that would be ideal for Easter or Passover meals. These are 3-4 lbs each, and they are $13 per lb.
· We have a lots of sausage to choose from. Our current flavors include beef andouille, bratwurst, frankfurter, polish and sweet Italian. Lamb flavors include lamb and apple, garlic and rosemary, merguez and Italian lamb with sun dried tomato.
It is hard to believe it is already March and that Spring Break and Easter will soon be upon us. Our snow is rapidly disappearing and we are into the “mud season”. John doesn’t expect to be able to snow machine into the Meadow farm much longer and will soon have to reopen the road so he can take the truck in to feed the mother cows. Hopefully we have enough gravel on the road that it will stay passable and he won’t have to spend huge amounts of time grading the ruts down later this spring.
With the melting of the snow we are into needing to plan our grazing season and decide where to concentrate the animals while letting the rest of the pastures get ahead start. On one hand we have the desire to let them spread out and avoid concentrating them, which keeps them in minimal mud and somewhat helps minimize soil compaction. On the other hand we have the knowledge that grazing every little bit of green as it shows up in the spring is the #1 hardest thing for a pasture to recover from and that allowing that early, early grazing reduces later yields, and over many years degrades the quality of the plants in the pasture. Finding a balance between the two needs, with the added variable of unpredictable soil warming, precipitation patterns, and forage growth, is very hard.
We are enjoying the slowdown in marketing operations that the non-market season affords. It felt very odd to have nowhere to go this weekend, and no coolers to pack on Friday. We went to Pocatello and ran errands and shopped on Friday and still had the weekend to work on chores and projects. All of the farmers markets have put out their applications for vendors so it is time to plan a schedule for the summer and otherwise get our ducks into their rows. It’s time to get the wooly ladies shearing appointments made as well. Our lambs are due several days ahead of schedule since the rams let themselves out a few days early back at Thanksgiving. The main group of calves will be due about Easter too.
We are about 10 days into a “trial” of having a new stock dog. A friend outside Logan contacted me just after we put Jade down about a 4 month old puppy he was taking care of. We think Barney is mostly Australian shepherd but since he just wandered into Larry’s life a couple of months ago we aren’t really sure. I don’t have much experience with training dogs but Barney seems to be extremely smart, willing, loving and very energetic. He is very interested in the livestock, and seems to want to try chasing them but I’m hoping to teach him that we “work” them not “play” with them. Trying to meet his needs for exercise and training is getting me moving more which is a great thing, but it is time consuming.
I’m not sure what I do differently than everyone else but my process of finalizing our year’s accounts and being ready for the tax man seems to take forever. Some of the candidates are talking about doing taxes on a postcard…if they could ever get business taxes down that simple it would save me HOURS of work.
We appreciate your going with us on this journey. Finding a path for our small herd of cattle and sheep and the land we steward to support our family has not been easy. This path still has its inherent challenges, but knowing you are all going along for the ride with us helps so much.
Many thanks for your business,
John, Lori Anne, Tom and Becca
Lau Family Farm, LLC
Grass Fed Beef, Lamb & Wool...A Natural Choice
PO Box 337
Soda Springs, ID 83276
208-709-4981 (cell)