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Posted 4/30/2020 9:04am by Kinley Coulter.Coulter Farms' milk tanks are almost overflowing with rich, creamy, sun-golden 100% Grassfed Organic milk these days.  We call this time of year 'the Spring Flush.'  The pastures are in their explosive growth phase and the...

Posted 5/22/2020The 'Milk Bottling/Cheese Processing Room' at Coulter Farms has been taken over by the 'Ice-Cream Making Team'.  We have just packed up 75 gallons of farm fresh ice-cream, made from our Certified Organic, 100% Grassfed Jersey Milk.  Actually, call it...

Posted 6/12/2020     As the balmy Dog-days of summer wax long and the summer solstice approaches... it is intuitively obvious to the most casual observer that summer weather has arrived.  After some extensive interviews with our milk-cows, we have discovered that the...

Posted 6/13/2019 11:07am by Kinley Coulter. I have recently read several books about America's food processing industry, and the health issues arising from processed foods,  and got inspired to share a few quotes with you all. If you are already purchasing some of...

Posted 5/29/2019 7:26pm by Kinley Coulter.     Last week had started out rather well.  But the week that came in like a lamb was destined to go out like a lion. We had beaten the rain and gotten all  63 acres of hay safely baled just as the clouds decided to dump...

Posted 4/4/2019 10:01am by Kinley Coulter.     April at Coulter Farms often arrives cloaked in deception.  Warm sun seems to offer an early spring, but cold nights and blustery days wipe out much of the sun's warmth.  The grass is brilliant green, luring the cattle...

Posted 3/29/2019 10:05am by Kinley Coulter.Ahhhh… April at last!  Spring has sprung at Coulter Farms and our new laying hens are swinging into major egg production mode.  The hens' innate drive to lay prolifically  in the spring fits the start of our three spring farm...

Posted 3/13/2019 3:41pm by Kinley Coulter.Right from the beginning, our stated goal with the 'Hoop Building Project' here at Coulter Farms was to absolutely, positively, ‘no matter what’...finish it in time for our March Lambing Season As usual with most of our big...

Posted 12/27/2018 2:12pm by Kinley Coulter. A few weeks ago, you were given an insider's peek into our project to erect a hoop building for lambing our ewe flock of sheep, and storing round bales of dry hay. We had just finished erecting a foundation with steel hoop...

Posted 11/28/2018 2:50pm by Kinley Coulter.One of our most trying challenges here at the farm is making tough decisions.  We find ourselves between a rock and a hard place and end up paralyzed by indecision.  Can’t pull the trigger… but can’t NOT pull the trigger.   ...

Anxiously Anticipating Autumnal Arrival of Always Appreciated Pumpkin Spice Drinkable Yogurt!

     A few weeks ago, the family was trying to finish up breakfast and get the day started here at Coulter Farms.  I was gazing, forlornly, into my empty tea mug, knowing that once the tea cup is empty it’s time to get up from the table and fight that day’s...

I was casually skimming an article about cheese recently, when a confident assertion by the author caught my eye: ‘Of course,' (she opined) 'no cheese is naturally orange and milk has no orange pigment in it.’        With all due respect to the food writer… this dairy...

Posted 8/10/2018 2:31pm by Kinley Coulter.The Summer of 2018 seems to have its mind set on making it into the record books.  In nineteen years that we have been farming here in Juniata County, PA,  we had never once made it through an entire summer without seeing the...

Posted 7/4/2018 9:50am by Kinley CoulterThe recent hot weather, while bringing summer fun for dogs and children here at the farm, also brings some challenges for farmers, equipment, animals and even for the lowly grass that our whole farming operation is built on.    ...

reposted from 6/20/2018     Spring is winding up, and summer officially begins tomorrow... the soil here at Coulter Farms is still gulping down vast quantities of 'April Showers.'  The cold wet spring has stretched itself into the bottom half of June, and we are...

reposted from 5/9/2018Among the blessings and new beginnings spring brings on our farm are new lambs; new piggies; new seedings for fresh pastures; and new blossoms against bright blue skies. Another spring blessing is an upcoming wedding!  Lord willing, Jason and...

reposted from 4/25/2018      Confession time...Cheesemaking at Coulter Farms has evolved into more of an exercise in  ‘art-full chaos' than ‘ high-brow food-science.'     Our typical response to the common request that we make a new variety of cheese is ‘why not?’...