Belding Hill Farms

08/31/2026

Putting the Komo xl to work this afternoon. Any guesses of what all this fresh milled flour will turn into?

08/31/2026

Oh to live the life of a free range piglet..

08/31/2026

Whatever you do, don’t play hide-and-seek with Lucie Irene. 😂🐄

Yesterday at noon, we started what we thought would be the fairly simple job of bringing three cows and two brand-new calves home from their summer pasture.

We finally finished everything around 8:30 last night.

And a good chunk of that can be blamed on this little girl. 😂

I had seen Lucie Irene Saturday evening, so we knew she was there and doing just fine. But when we went looking yesterday? Nothing.

Six of us searched at one point. We walked through an 11-acre piece of pasture and woods, and by 4:30 we had spent hours looking without catching so much as a glimpse of her.

The funny part was that Willow, her mom, wasn’t worried at all.

And that’s because Willow knew exactly where her baby was.

Cows can be a lot like deer when they have a brand-new calf. Mom will tuck that baby away somewhere safe, the calf will fill its belly with milk, curl up and go into what I call a full-blown milk coma for hours—and Mom knows right where she left it.

Unfortunately, she can’t tell us. 😂

Eventually we admitted defeat for the moment. We unhooked the trailer and left it in the pasture, and Jill and I headed to Dairy Queen for a quick supper.

And yes, after spending the afternoon chasing the Dairy Queens, apparently we went to Dairy Queen. 😂

While we were finishing our meal, the phone rang.

The landowner said, “Willow and her calf are standing out in the field.”

We took off like a scalded cat.

After HOURS of searching for that little calf, it took us probably less than three minutes to get Willow and Lucie Irene loaded once they decided to show themselves.

This video is Mom and baby finally stepping off the trailer and arriving home at Belding Hill Farms many hours after the adventure began.

Welcome home, Lucie Irene. ❤️

And seriously… never play hide-and-seek with this calf.

Here’s to keeping real food simple, and sharing the journey with our community.

08/30/2026

Meet Lucie-Irene ❤️🐮

Another new baby from our Dairy Queens!

This is Willow’s new little girl, Lucie-Irene, hanging out with Mom at their summer pasture alongside Aubrey and Lena.

And this little girl already has a name with a bit of meaning behind it. We chose Lucie-Irene in homage to the woman whose property these girls are calling home right now. We’re incredibly grateful to the people who allow us to use their land and pasture our animals, and this seemed like a pretty special way to recognize that.

Welcome to Belding Hill Farms, Lucie-Irene. ❤️

Here’s to keeping real food simple, and sharing the journey with our community.

08/30/2026

🐄 The Dairy Queens have been busy! ❤️

You might remember Willow, Lena and Aubrey — our “Dairy Queens” who are spending some time on pasture down on the Lower North Shore Road (and who made a bit of an adventure out of it a few weeks ago when they decided the grass might be greener on the other side of the fence 😂).

Well, sometime over the last few days, two of the girls have had their calves!

I went down yesterday to have a look and managed to catch a little video of Aubrey and her brand-new bull calf. She wasn’t overly interested in showing him off and eventually took him back into the woods, so he’s a little hard to see in the video — but he’s there!

Mom and calf are looking good, and we’ll be bringing the Dairy Queens and their newest additions back home to Belding Hill Farms in the next few days.

Always nice to find a couple of new little faces waiting for you in the pasture. ❤️🐄

Here’s to keeping real food simple, and sharing the journey with our community.

08/29/2026

📧 Bulk Ground Beef Orders — Check Your Email!

What an incredible response to our 2026 Bulk Ground Beef Release. Thank you so much to everyone who placed an order!

We’ve now sent out emails confirming the orders we expect to be able to fill, so please check your inbox. If you don’t see an email from us, have a look in your Junk/Spam and Promotions folders as well — sometimes that’s where they end up.

A quick explanation for anyone who received an email saying that we may not be able to fulfill your entire order:

The response was overwhelming, and rather than shutting the order form down the moment we reached our estimated yield, we allowed people to continue placing orders. We’re keeping those orders in the order they were received and will work our way through them as far as the actual yield allows.

And that’s the important part: we don’t know exactly how many pounds of ground beef we’ll have until the animal is processed. We can make a good estimate, but with an individual animal, there’s no way to know the final number until the beef is actually in front of us.

So if you received that message, your order is still on the list and there is absolutely still a chance we’ll be able to fill it. We just don’t want to promise beef we don’t yet know we’ll have.

One other thing worth mentioning: because this ground beef is coming from one individual animal, the fat-to-meat ratio will simply be whatever that animal produces. We expect it will likely fall somewhere around lean to medium-lean, but we won’t know for certain until it’s processed.

Unlike most grocery-store ground beef, which can be blended from multiple animals to achieve a specific fat percentage, there’s no adjusting this one to a recipe. This is simply the beef from this animal, ground as it is.

Thank you again for the incredible support. We knew there was interest, but the response to this release exceeded what we expected.

So check your email, check those Junk and Promotions folders, and make sure you know where your order stands!

Here’s to keeping real food simple, and sharing the journey with our community.

08/29/2026

Alex has the garden open today!

08/29/2026

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08/29/2026

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08/28/2026

The Belding Hill Farms section at Hampton Corner Grocery is looking pretty full today! 🥩🐑🐖

I grabbed a quick walk-through of the meat shelf to show you what we’ve got available right now — including some Belding Hill Farms lamb for the first time!

🐑 Lamb:
• Lamb chops
• Lamb shanks
• Whole legs of lamb — they’re a good-sized leg, so while the price tag might look a little intimidating at first, there’s a lot of meat there!
• Rosemary, Garlic & Pepper Lamb Sausage

🐖 Pork:
• Pork chops
• Spare ribs
• A nice chunk of pork belly if you’ve ever wanted to try making your own bacon

🌭 Fresh Sausage:
• Rosemary, Garlic & Pepper Lamb
• Korean BBQ
• Donair
• Country Hot — sort of along the lines of a medium Italian sausage

And something quite a few people have been asking us for — loose sausage meat!

We packaged a couple packs of each flavour without casings. That makes it really handy for a quick stir-fry, pasta or meat sauce, breakfast hash, pizza topping, or anywhere else you want all that sausage flavour without having to take it out of the casing first.

It’s all there on the shelf at Hampton Corner Grocery, formerly Kredl’s Corner Market. Drop in and have a look!

Thank you, as always, to everyone who has been buying our meat, trying the new flavours, and supporting what we’re doing. It really does mean a lot to us.

Here’s to keeping real food simple, and sharing the journey with our community. ❤️