Bossie Cow Farm

06/12/2026

06/07/2026

The laying hens are once again living on pasture for the rest of the 2026 growing season. Living ON pasture and access to pasture are not the same thing! Our girls love forage and chasing down insects, giving their eggs that tasty flavor that can’t be beat.

06/01/2026

Some of our youngest animals got out on pasture for the first time this weekend.

Sound ON. (This group is very vocal!) 🐄

Putting young animals out on pasture is fun but also chaotic, and stressful! We fence trained all of them beforehand, but when the wide open pasture calls, the need to run kicks in, and we hope they remember what a hot fence is! The youngest one are those in the background with the zoomies: running crazily and doing laps. The older animals in the foreground are the “cool teenagers” who stand around watching the crazy young ones.

In the end, the fence was tested but respected, and all of them did calm down and start grazing later in the afternoon. Now they are ready for the rotational grazing life!

05/31/2026

05/27/2026

Our first cutting hay for 2026 is done and DONE!! It’s a great feeling to know the winter feed supply is in process. Yes summer may be around the corner, but farmers are always thinking all year long.

This year we even got to put our oldest tractor on the farm to use. The old Minneapolis Moline got to pull the bale wrapper for a hot second! That tractor was the first tractor my grandpa ever had.

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05/21/2026

Happy world bee day!

Pollinators are so important for the health and well-being of our natural ecosystems. One of my favorite pollinators has been bumble bees, and I’ve been tracking them on our farm for the past several years. This photo is one of my favorites I’ve ever taken as it’s the endangered rusty-patched bumble bee. I spotted this one a few years back, right here on our farm!

05/20/2026

Sometimes the most fun things are the unexpected!

Yesterday we had two hens show up with some unplanned babies…6 of them exactly! And while I’m fairly certain neither mom knows exactly which chicks are actually theirs, they seem to be doing a great job with the co-parenting thing!

I had a frazzled hour of running around like crazy to get the coop chick-proofed, but all is good now. Once the chicks get a bit bigger, we will get them out on grass.

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05/13/2026

Some evening goat shenanigans during a gorgeous sunset. Say hello to Claire, Luna, and Cosmo, the youngest of the Bossie Cow Farm goat gang.

05/03/2026

The grazing season has begun in 2026 on Bossie Cow Farm!

This weekend the Bossie Cows (and Nugget the goat) were eager to get out into our green pastures for the first time this year. As a rotational grazing farm, this is always one of our favorite days of the year. Watching the cows (and farmer) frolic in the green sward is a special experience for sure, and we appreciate being able to share the moment with you! This was also the first year the overzealous cows successfully knocked over the camera tripod!

From your farmers at Bossie Cow Farm, enjoy our 2026 pasture let-out!

04/30/2026

Promoting wildlife diversity on the farm, one nest at a time.

Last year we put up 8 bluebird nest boxes to try and entice the bluebirds we saw passing through in the early spring to stop and nest at OUR farm. And the plan worked! At least half the boxes are occupied with active nests!

Bluebirds aren’t a species I recall seeing on the farm growing up, mostly because we didn’t provide the habitat they needed. Or I didn’t know where to look! They need cavities such as tree hollows to nest in, and providing artificial nest boxes helps with that. They also require open areas with a few trees or shrubs, and our farm with its acres of open pastures and trees in the fence lines provides that ideal habitat. Let’s go bluebirds!