Sweetwater Farms

11/22/2022

Rios Ranch has terrific hay. Give them a call!

Hay, Hay, Hay!! Happy Holiday's Everyone! Current customers please help our small business out and refer a friend.
We still have hay! We currently have the following ready for delivery or pick up.
Alfalfa $23
Mix 50/50 (Meadow/Alfalfa) $26
Orchard $28
Call or text 530-301-4652 to place your order or schedule a delivery. We deliver and stack for less than the cost of fuel. If you haven't tried Rios Hay, try us out. To our current customers, business is really slow for us. We are asking for your help to keep afloat. Refer your friends to us please. Our hay is barn stored and guaranteed to be free of mold and noxious weeds/foxtails. Thanks Everyone!

05/20/2022

All the piggies waiting patiently for their scratches. (sound on)

05/03/2022

Spring has arrived! New icelandic lambs at Sweetwater Farms.

11/25/2021

Today she's thankful she's not a turkey 🦃

11/25/2021

All food comes from somewhere. Do you know where yours comes from? Support a Nevada farmer. Buy local.

11/23/2021

These kunekune piglets were weaned today and seem to be perfectly content.

11/07/2021

This is wonderfully written and exactly how I feel ❤️

The turkeys and chickens we processed today are currently resting in an ice bath. The tables and cutting boards are clean, the feathers and guts buried deep in the compost pile. There are bowls of organ meat in the fridge, and a tired crew relaxed around a bustling table with full bellies.

It’s probably the fact that I’m sharing with you today that has me feeling so reflective about it, but the truth is that days like today send me deep into my feelings. Food is so important to me. And food that nourishes community is a gift so rich that I, quite literally, have oriented my whole life around it.

We grow our own meat —not because it is easy or even cost effective— but because I believe so strongly in the importance of planet and animal welfare, the unmatched nutrition of pastured and free range meats, and even the somber attachment to the lives that are lost to sustain our own.

We grow our own vegetables because I see the magic of a seed in the ground become a dish on the table. The unparalleled flavor of a carrot or tomato or melon picked at peak ripeness, traveling only the distance from the garden gate to my kitchen table.

I bake our bread and make our dairy (and, and, and…) because it just plain tastes better. It’s alive and it’s real and it cannot be replicated on a grocery store shelf.

And then… the most beautiful part.

I set a plate before my children.
My spouse.
My neighbors.

I serve them a plateful of my love, my labor, and my time. The land and the livestock give to us in exchange for all we give to them and it is all so unbearable hard and beautiful and right.

It’s all about the food.

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