WAGON CREEK CREAMERY
  • Home
  • Products
    • Stores & Markets
    • 100% Grass Fed Beef
    • Grass Fed Dairy
    • Pastured Eggs
    • All Natural Granola
    • Pastured Veal
    • Specialty Items
  • Contact Us
    • Our Story >
      • Why Grass Fed?
      • Photo Gallery
    • Farm News Blog
  • Shop Now




​What's Up at Wagon Creek?

Springtime at Wagon Creek Creamery

9/8/2015

 
It has been a beautiful spring here on the farm. We’ve had more than ten inches of rain over the past month, and the pasture is as green as it gets. The swales, the creek, and the pond are full, and they’re busy spreading moisture to the surrounding soil. We’re thankful that the rain has been spread out evenly, and that we’ve been spared the heavy flood rains that have hit OKC recently.

 
Springtime is calving season. We milked very few cows over the winter (we’re transitioning to a seasonal milking model), but we’re back in full swing now. We’ve had sixteen calves already, with eight more on the way. The new mothers are milking well, especially given the cool weather and abundant pasture. Springtime is a great time to be a cow!


 
More milk means more grassfed yogurt, butter, cream, and cheese. Stop by the farm, visit one of the Enid, Tulsa, Edmond and OKC locations listed on our site, or order our products online at http://www.oklahomafood.coop/.


 
We’d be remiss if we didn’t mention the chickens! We have around one hundred layers and sixty broilers ranging around the farm right now, and we’re planning to add even more. They’re a relatively new addition to the farm, and we’re amazed at the positive impact they’ve made over the past few years. They provide excellent weed and insect control around our dairy barn and hugelkultures, and their manure gives a nice boost to our pasture fertility, as well. Plus, their entertainment and aesthetic value is off the charts!


 
We’ve been working hard to develop some drought mitigation measures here on the farm over the past few years, and one of our main strategies is improved water catchment. Here in Northwest Oklahoma, it’s not uncommon to get four inches of rain in a single night, followed by a month and a half of hot and dry weather. This means that we want to keep as much of that four-inch rain as possible on our land and soaking into our soil.


 

Last spring, with the help of some good friends, we used a backhoe and a road grader to beef up our pond and dig out a few of the swales that stretch across the farm. Both have filled up very nicely this spring, and have been doing wonders for the surrounding grass as the water seeps downhill through the soil.

 
If you’d like to learn more about what we have going on here at the creamery, send us an email at wagoncreekcreamery@gmail.com, or stop by! We enjoy visitors, and like all small farms and local producers, thrive on community interest and support.



Comments are closed.

    Authors

    Written by members of the Crain family.

    Archives

    July 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    March 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    September 2015

    Categories

    All
    Beef
    Cheese
    Dairy
    Grass-fed
    Raw Milk

    RSS Feed

Wagon Creek Creamery
Grass-fed Dairy & Beef
wagoncreekcreamery@gmail.com

(580) 496-2447
11690 County Rd. 710 
Helena, OK 73741
  • Home
  • Products
    • Stores & Markets
    • 100% Grass Fed Beef
    • Grass Fed Dairy
    • Pastured Eggs
    • All Natural Granola
    • Pastured Veal
    • Specialty Items
  • Contact Us
    • Our Story >
      • Why Grass Fed?
      • Photo Gallery
    • Farm News Blog
  • Shop Now