Hi Friends,

Thank you to everyone who was involved with the chicken pre-orders! We completely sold out on what we had available this year!

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I’m excited as we move into this next month. As things are starting to ramp up, we are figuring out some of our final details for the season, and we are enjoying the wonderful warm weather!

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The orange marks on the lamb and ewe are paint markings for record keeping.

On Sunday, February 16th, we also had our first baby lamb arrive. We are so happy to have this next part of the sheep journey underway! The lamb is doing very well and bouncing all over the place on these warm days! 😍

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“May God give you of heaven’s dew and of earth’s richness…”

Genesis 27:28

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Judah,

For Cadwell Agriculture

Chicken pre-orders now available:

More details below:

Hi friends,

We made it through the annual sub-zero temps this month, thankfully without very many challenges. This week we have been enjoying the very warm, almost T-Shirt weather we’ve been having. It has been very hard to stay indoors this last week.

This month we were able to go to a couple conferences related to building health in our land, using animals. We were also able to build a second chicken tractor, which will allow us to run even more chickens on pasture, to provide even more high-quality, organically-fed chickens to more wonderful people.

If you would like to get a great deal on your chicken for this next year, We are are offering a 10% discount on all Pre-orders made by February 14th.

Whole chicken available for $4.95/lb. (Usually $5.45/lb)

Whole chicken cut up into 8 Pieces available for $5.22/lb. (Usually $5.74/lb)

We are also Offering:

Chicken feet (cleaned) $2.50/lb (Usually $2.75/lb)

Necks: $3.50/lb (Usually $3.85/lb)

Hearts: $12.00/lb (Usually $13.20/lb)

Livers: $12.27/lb (Usually $13.50/lb)

If you are interested in ordering any of the above products to secure this deal, you can go to our Pre-order form or contact us via the contact form.

“Nature Is Cruel, but we don’t have to be…”

Temple Grandin

Judah,

for Cadwell Agriculture

Hi all,

Welcome to 2025!!🎉🎉

This has been somewhat of a slow month in regards to most of the visible farm work, but we are excited to be doing a bit of planning for next year, including getting ready for the farm’s first lambing coming this spring! (Sometime in March or April.)

Most of our work this last month has been looking at records and making a lot of the scheduling decisions for this next season.

❄ The sheep do not seem mind the cold at all these days. In fact, they seem to like it! ❄

Thankyou for reading this very short newsletter. I’m looking forward to sharing the joys of another farming season ahead!

“How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!”

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Judah,

Hi everyone,

The weather is cooling down quite a bit these days. And the pastures are not growing quite as quickly, and along with this comes the slowing down of the season and a time where I can look back and enjoy the accomplishments of the summer.

We are extremely blessed this year to have had lots of rain to really get the grass to keep growing quickly well into August, which provided great pasture for the chickens and the sheep.

The sheep are doing well and grew a lot this summer on pasture.

I’m looking forward to seeing the pastures get better and higher-quality as we continue to have them out there.

We are moving into the fall corn harvest season, so we will be shifting from a lot of animal work to more work with tractors. This is something that I enjoy doing, and it has helped with a lot of the farm startup costs.

“It feels good at the end of the day to know you made a product that other people are going to enjoy.”

Jericho Sanchez

Judah,

for Cadwell Agriculture

Hi friends,

Crazy to think we are halfway through the year! It has been a nice busy month but not quite as crazy as it was in early spring when everything starts at once. Here is a little bit of what we’ve been up to.

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The sheep are continuing to grow and enjoy the green grass on pasture.

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And as the sheep have been grazing, we also have been doing a bit of hay-making, gathering some feed for winter.

This month we also butchered our first out of 3 batches of broilers for this year. We still have a few available. You can order yours here.​

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“Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.”

Madam C. J. Walker

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Judah,

for Cadwell Agriculture

Hi friends,

I’ve really been enjoying an early spring this year, which has been very nice. Although the weather has cooled down, the grass is still growing like crazy.

The sheep (and myself) are getting antsy to get out in the pasture. They got a little taste of the green grass this week as a test, but I’m excited to have them out on pasture full time on the fresh grass, where they can start harvesting their own feed and we can start rotational grazing, which helps the land and grass to rest and recover in between grazing times, and also helps the sheep to be healthier and happier.

Earlier this month we wrapped up the mower project. Since then, we have been focusing on preparations for the summer, which includes getting ready for the broilers that will be coming later this month and making sure that the chicken tractor and other supplies are all ready to go after sitting all winter.

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“The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.”

Stendhal

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Judah,

for Cadwell Agriculture

Hi friends,

(Click ​here​ to watch a video version of this update)

We are only 15 days away from spring, although we’ve been enjoying plenty of spring like weather for the last couple of weeks.

Late January we purchased 3 lambs. 1 ram and 2 ewes for our starter flock. So this month has been spent watching them and making sure they settled in nicely. They have been doing great and are acclimating very nicely.

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We’ve also been spending quite a bit of time in the shop doing maintenance on various machines. We have also been working on getting my grandpa’s old mower up and running smoothly and updating it to modern safety standards.

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“Some call it the middle of nowhere; we call it the center of everything.”

Author Unknown.

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Judah,

for Cadwell Agriculture

Hi friends,

This last month was fairly slow, but things are starting to pick up as we start getting ready for summer. (Yes, I’m getting ready for summer in January)

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A lot of January was spent working on final preparations and scheduling for this year’s production. We finished getting all the feed that we will be using for the sheep this winter, and we also got all of the feed that the meat chickens will be eating this next summer.

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I’m so excited to announce that after just over 2 years of working, planning, and researching, we finally have some sheep on farm! These lambs were born last fall and were weaned just a few weeks ago. We still have a long road ahead of us before any of the sheep will be available to sell, but we are very excited to have this very crucial part of our farm growth journey underway.

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“A meadow without sheep is just a field of unfulfilled dreams”

author unknown

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Judah,

for Cadwell Agriculture

Hi friends,

We have wrapped up another year. We had lots of growth, and we finished a lot of projects that we were wanting to work on. And now as a review…

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This year we raised 30 broilers. And thanks to God’s amazing blessing, the rains were timed to come at just the right time so that the pasture was ready for them, even in the midst of a drought.

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We also did lots of work on preparing our property for sheep! Including spending a month on a sheep farm helping them with lambing!

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As usual, we also helped a few farmers with corn harvest this fall.

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I’m looking forward to another amazing year!

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“Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.”

Laura Ingalls wilder

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Judah,

for Cadwell Agriculture