Nourishing Family Farm

08/18/2026

08/18/2026

From our fields to your table. Excellent forages make excellent food for excellent cows to make delicious milk for our wonderful customers!

See you tonight in Marceline and Macon!

08/16/2026

Listening to this song while milking cows this morning. It’s my testimony today for sure.

The Good News Music · Light On The Ridge · Song · 2026

08/15/2026

God has blessed us with awesome timely rains. Our pastures are really thriving and all that good grass going into fall will make our cows milk great! They are milking great right now in spite of this heat.

In fact so much so that we are looking for more customers!

If you’re looking for good wholesome food for your family check us out at www.nourishingfamilyfarm.com

We will be delivering to platte city and Liberty on Monday. Check out our meat sticks from our pasture raised pork excellent for school lunches along with other items.

If you join our PMA you can get quality healthy delicious Greek yogurt a perfect breakfast meal that when paired with fresh fruit and real honey is packed full of nutrients and healthy bacteria!

And don’t forget our pasture raised chickens whole or pieces.

Check us out as we continue to grow to serve your wholesome farm direct foods.

Our drop offs make purchasing very convenient.

Look at our locations and pick which one is most convenient and select it we will drop off your prepaid order there or you can meet us.

Thanks to all who have supported us in the past and we look forward to meeting new friends soon!

Farm Fresh All Natural Dairy and Meat to Nourish Your Family!

08/14/2026

Today’s dad joke!

Don’t keep us a secret! Tell your friends you’re a proud supporter of Nourishing family farm!

And if this is the first time hearing about us check out our website at www.nourishingfamilyfarm.com

08/11/2026

Good morning. A little tour before milking.

See you in Macon and Marceleine today.

It’s not too early to get in orders for the rest of the week.

08/09/2026

Why did you start selling milk directly to consumers? And why did you quit the conventional dairy model?
These are questions I get asked sometimes.

Many people are looking for a very pure altruistic answer.

Something along the lines of “for the health benefits” or “I was concerned over pesticides and antibiotics “

There is a hint of truth in those two answers but that’s not the whole story.

We milked cows commercially until 2022. That year in the spring as I read my Bible I kept asking myself do I depend on God for everything like David did?

The answer was a flippant yes but as the spring progressed I couldn’t get away from it. In June I went to the FSA office to certify my acres and be sure I was doing everything possible to get the government money I needed to keep my farm financially going. As I sat in the parking lot I got an uneasy feeling. I’ve always hated these programs but never knew how to farm without them. Our prices are kept low enough that the extra money is needed just to survive. Every banker for every farm has a category for income that is government payments they have different names but they are all just a fix for a broken system.

I went inside and told them what I had planted and where , like I had been doing for 32 years. When I hit the door to exit the building I heard that question again! “Who are you depending on” ? It was clear as I stood outside the USDA building in Brookfield Mo. It was the government.

I sat in my truck and vowed I would never take government money again.

But how? I’m not rich and I have way too much debt!

This is faith.

Then that fall I was confronted by new requirements for our co-op. I didn’t agree with these and had never been asked to report things to battle “climate change”. I wouldn’t sign.

I made a stand on principle about freedom to farm as I had learned and experienced over a long career of farming. The industry’s that I loved was becoming unrecognizable. The consumer didn’t see a change but I certainly did.

In December we were off the milk trucks route. Now I was faced with a choice. It took a few months and out of desperation because I had no income , I started researching selling our milk directly to consumers. This was hard for me. Everything I had done was antithetical to what my new target audience wanted.

But we made adjustments not to many really because this really aligned with the way I wanted to farm. More like my Great grandpa did then what was being pushed by industry gurus and demands of multi national corporations.

I wanted not only to get away from the government but also from the endless connections to input suppliers who promise the world at the expense of your soul.

So my frustration at the faceless industrialization of agriculture is why I started this journey. To meet a customer and engage with them is more satisfying than top yields or best milk quality awards from the co-op.

So I started on this journey to save my farm I stay on this journey to provide an alternative for so many friends we have met and now a love for producing great food. Not a commodity.

Thanks for allowing me to do what I love and you can continue to support us through buying our farm fresh food products available through our website

Nourishingfamilyfarm.com