RTJ Farm & Beanblossom Acres

08/28/2026

🎶 Back to school…back to school to prove to dad that I’m not a fool…I got my shoes tied tight…my beef in the freezer… 🎶
(or something like that🤪)
To help get us prepared for those busy fall days that are just around the corner we are offering ground beef bundles!
Let’s start the 2026 school year feeling prepared by having beef on hand ready to grab for those busy fall dinners! I love the feeling of having beef in the freezer for the many easy but nutritious meals that can feed the whole family.
100% grassfed & grass finished ground beef in 1 lb chubs.
Raised from birth to butcher on our family’s farm in Custer, Wa!
USDA processed by Del Fox in Bow, Wa.
20lbs for $190 or 40lbs for $370
Message me to arrange pick up!
Thank you friends for supporting local farmers❤️
(Butcher dates are July & August. This picture is just an example)

**valid until labor day**

08/27/2026

Thanks Dolly💕

07/22/2026

When we started we didn’t fully know the direction we were going so we were doing all the things. I have since evaluated what is serving our farm and what isn’t and these are a few of the things we have changed since the start.
1. We bought a herd of registered ADGA (American Dairy Goat Association) dairy goats. I paid to transfer all their paperwork. I registered the kids the next year and then I realized it really wasn’t for me. I couldn’t keep up with the paperwork, tattooing and the financial aspect never showed a return. We don’t show our animals and are content with a commercial herd although we started with some pretty significant bloodlines. I consider it a great foundation and will probably always buy registered bucks so I can track the genetics coming in. We are a closed herd (except the bucks) and our goal is healthy goats aimed for extended milk production.
2. The first couple years we milked EVERY milking. Morning & night. It was so exhausting so we started hiring help…and then a little more. Now I am considered back up for all the afternoon milking shifts. We have a great crew of high schoolers who are scheduled and it’s been great!
3. Oh the YouTube channel..🤪 It is still active if you care to see where we came from. I quickly realized it was way more time spent on every video than I had in my schedule. I had great hopes of documenting the whole transition of our farm from cow dairy to goat dairy and that would have been AMAZING but I got overwhelmed with it. We wanted to be respectful of the previous owners of the herd who had a hard time letting go of years and years of work. So we didn’t film the transition. Then we were so swamped with the reality of milking the goats and figuring out our new systems that it got put on the back burner. Someday I will post some update/follow-up videos on there but for now I enjoy the short format videos of Instagram & Facebook.
4. It is true! You don’t have to breed your goats every year to continue milk production. There are some great studies out on extended lactations! We have half our herd milking for 2 years instead of 1. It’s been great! More later…

07/11/2026

5,560 +1,449 people. 🧔🏻‍♂️👩‍🦳👳🏾‍♂️🧑‍🌾👨🏽‍🍳👩🏾‍🎨👨‍🦽🧑‍🏫🧑🏼‍🏭👨🏽‍🚒
That’s our instagram & Facebook following! Truthfully, if I had to stand in front of this crowd of people in our field I would throw up. 🤮
Am I outgoing and social? Yes! I ❤️ people!
Do I like public speaking? Not so much. I am a recovering stage fright speaker.
I feel like I can’t communicate well and people won’t understand what I am trying to say. That my jokes will fall flat even though I would say I am a pretty funny person. If I do say so myself… 🤡
My biggest fear is that the most important things I am trying to say will be in my head but not come out of my mouth. I present you with exhibit A: I gave the maid of honor speech for my sister’s wedding…I got up and just started crying 😭 and said “don’t move to Arizona!” I am sure there were other words in there…or at least I hope there was something of our great sisterly bond but my mom stood up and wrapped up the embarrassment with a toast “to the bride and groom”😂🫥 (Sorry Alison!)
Thankfully, I have recovered from that public speaking set back to have some really great experiences!
But 7,009 people?! That blows my mind. I show up on here every day to a crowd of people who have shown interest in what we do. People who have valued what I had to show or say.
That means the world to me and I love being a voice for family farming. I hope I do it justice because not enough could be said about how vital these families are.
Thank you for being here. I would hug everyone of you if I could. 🤗
Every like, comment or share encourages me to continue fighting for our family farm so we can feed our community. Thank you.
❤️ Love,
Farmer Ashton👩🏻‍🌾

06/24/2026

Continually posting anyways… 😏

06/17/2026

We don’t shy away from the hard realities of raising animals for food around here. But that doesn’t mean we take it lightly.
As farmers we stand in the gap for consumers so they don’t have to deal with that reality. We take pride in raising our animals from birth to butcher on our family’s farm. They are born here and the custom exempt butchered animals get done here. We partner with Lynden Meat who does a fantastic job of butchering them on our farm. The USDA butchering has to be done at a USDA facility so they are hauled to Del Fox in Bow, Wa and we do that with the same standard of care we give them here. They have been excellent to work with as well.
We commit to giving our animals the respect they deserve every day of their life. From beginning to end.
If our kids want to learn about the process then we answer every question they have. They asked this morning to see the process and the butchers were great at explaining it to them. We strongly believe in the next generation understanding that food doesn’t magically appear on a grocery store shelf.

06/13/2026

06/09/2026

05/31/2026

Trying to keep up with the algorithm is exhausting.
Just here to share our farm👩🏻‍🌾✌🏻
Thanks for following!😘

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