Better Beef4u

Arcadia Farm Circa 1659. Located in the heart of Kent County, Maryland, offers Happy, Grain & Pasture fed, natural, steroid-free Angus-cross Beef. No added hormones or antibiotics. Know your farm(er) and let your conscience guide your tastebuds. Stop by and visit sometime.

Saturday, January 26, 2008

Life on the Farm

Life on the farm. My mother tells me she never thought I'd be a farm girl. After living here for the past 15 years, I can't believe I would be anything else.
Arcadia Farm has been in Pete's family for many generations. The land was part of the Arcadia Land Grant from the King of England in 1659. "They" say the first meeting of St. Pauls' Church was held here in our dining room. Even once a peach orchard, this was a gathering place on many occassions of family and friends from far and near. Pete's grandfather "Daddy Pete" as he was called by apparently all of Kent County was a fun-loving, hard-working, family man. Many stories have been told of the long days in the field, with his best worker, a man named Melvin. Arcadia was a dairy farm for a while too; until the milking barn caught fire one year. When Pete and I took over the farm and starting working on some projects, we found some of the charred beams from the old milking parlor. We hope the heritage and tradition of the farm carries down to our children. Teaching them that hamburger, fruits and vegtables don't just appear on the shelves of the local grocery store, has been an enlightening experience to say the least. Getting back to basics, that's what we are doing. There is no better place to raise a family than on wide, open spaces. Steers and chickens to feed, eggs to gather, weeds to pull, squash to pick, waiting patiently for the cantaloupes to ripen, trees to climb, dirt clods to throw, fences to fix, Johnson grass to spray, grass to mow. This is the good life. Glory to God.