Dear Customers and Friends,
You want a good deal on a grassfed / grassfinished lamb? We still have whole lambs between 34 and 53 lbs ready for the next meat delivery on December, 2nd 2017.
Next year we will also offer single cuts again. But keep in mind that single cuts are more expensive than a whole lamb.
Best wishes
Rainer, Florian and Steffi Krumsiek
Dear customers and friends of Big Bear Ranch,
our first pigs from the 2017 litters will be butchered this Thursday. If you would like to have a custom cut half or whole of our healthy pigs, please email us before Tuesday night, because we want to sort them on Wednesday. These orders will than be ready for the next delivery on December 2nd, 2017.
Our pigs get only certified organic hog grower in addition to their nutritious pasture. Therefore, you can be sure they are GMO free and their feed is not contaminated with glyphosate (ingredient in RoundUp, causing cancer with high certainty). Most Conventional farmers spray grains, sugar beets, potatoes with RoundUp to kill the plant to save on costs for drying.
The growing epidemic of gluten intolerant people is probably one of the early warning signs of this dangerous practice.
Yours
Rainer, Florian & Steffi Krumsiek
Dear friends and customers of Big Bear Ranch!
I intended to write a nice update about life on Big Bear Ranch in this beautiful fall, and send our best wishes for Thanksgiving, but in the last weeks I have been just to tired when I came back to the house late at night . There is still a lot to do before the first snow falls and the weather forecast is really threatening. Anyways, today I want – at least – share a fresh picture of the cows (and horses) on the Big Field.
Dear Customers,
we changed our pick up point in Burnaby. Please pick up your meat at the Parking Lot at the south end of White Avenue parallel to Willingdon Avenue (click here to see the location in Google Maps). Thank you!
Your Team from Big Bear Ranch
Dear friends, customers and followers,
this was (and is) not only a very hot summer, but also a very busy one for us on Big Bear Ranch. I am sorry to have missed several month with our next newsletter, but it was just so much to do and quite a challenge due to the dry season with lots of hot days, no rain and the forest fire – situation in the Cariboo region. Most of our animals did not seem to suffer much by the smoke of the forest fires and the dry weather, except for the chicken. They hardly layed any eggs.
Horsefly was cut off for a while as Williams Lake got evacuated and we were lucky to have virtually all of our food grown on our place. We were very close to the evacuation order area, but so far we were only bothered by the smoky skies with dark days and no growing happening on the field or in the garden. We had to cut 30 % more acres for hay than in other years to get the hay we need for the winter.
Because of some road closures due to the fires we were not able to deliver beef to the butcher in Kamloops. And he had to discard all the lower value cuts of all his customers. This was his only solution to at least take care of higher value cuts because his freezer was filled to overflowing and his customers could not pick up their meat in time. For that reason we are now short on certain cuts and organs, as well as on beef bone broth the next deliveries (all the bones are gone).
But we have now pork bone broth available, because these bones already were in our walk in freezer. Thanks to friends in Horsefly, who lend us their big generators, we could save all our meat in our walk in freezer on the Ranch.
Our Cattle, sheep, horses and pigs depend on the hay to survive the long cold winters up here.
The fires and the smoke are not only frightening, it creates sometimes wonderful pictures.
We hope you are all well and wish you all clear skies and a fresh breeze!
Your team on Big Bear Ranch