4L Farms

06/17/2026

This weekend is Father’s Day, already! If you’re wondering what to gift the fathers in your life, meat is always a great start! For the man that needs nothing but loves a good steak we’ve got you covered! We have tomahawks, rib steaks, ribeyes, New York’s and more.

We’ll be at the Wood River Farmers Market in Ketchum tomorrow from 12-4 and Hailey this coming Saturday from 10-2. Come down and check out your local producers.

We will also have chicken back in stock starting Saturday!!

06/06/2026

Good morning! Today kicks off the first farmers market of the season for us! We’ll be in Hailey at Roberta McKercher Park from 10-2!

What’s new? Our location is now in the larger park across the street from last year’s location. Market hours have changed, we start and finish an hour later than years past. We will have the same great vendors everyone loves and some new additions.

Come down and say hello. We can’t wait to see everyone!

06/05/2026

06/05/2026

We’ve been making hay all week and have a lot more to do but it feels good to see the stack yards filling again!

05/28/2026

Baby chicks arrived yesterday! They are happy and healthy, staying toasty in their brooder. In a few short weeks the first batch of birds will head to the processor and these ones will be headed to the pasture tractors. We are on faster growing this year. More birds with less time between batches will hopefully help our stock up.

On a side note, peonies are finally blooming, I anxiously wait every year for these beauties and they do not disappoint!

05/23/2026

The warm weather is pretty nice!! The newly planted alfalfa is up and looking great! This is planted where the corn was this past year. Hard to believe the transformation.

We have officially started first cutting of hay. We start in the grass hay then move on to alfalfa. I didn’t get a great picture because of the angle, I wasn’t in the right vehicle but there are some nice sized rows of grass hay out there.

The meat birds are just a few weeks away from processing. It all goes so fast. Our next batch of chicks come on Wednesday. I can’t believe it’s already the end of May.

Butcher steers are coming along nice. These big boys will be processed in the fall.

Have a wonderful and safe Memorial Day weekend!

05/12/2026

Some of our butcher steers are happy to assist in cleaning up the excess grass in the mule pasture. The mules are unimpressed but they all segregate and it works out. 95* today, I think they’re also loving the sprinklers. LOL

05/12/2026

Chickens are four weeks old tomorrow! This morning they moved from the crowded brooders in the barn to spacious chicken tractors in the pasture. The tractors are moved daily so the birds have fresh clean grass. They’ll remain on pasture until mid June when they’ll be processed and ready to sell. Sunshine, fresh grass,
bugs and space will give them a jump in growth as we move forward. Our next group of day old chicks will arrive May 27th and the process will start over!

The chickens are at a very awkward stage in growth. Meat birds grow at an extremely fast pace and their feathers struggle to keep up at this age. They will begin to look better within a few days. They look like older chickens but are still very much chicks, making a funny chirping sound.

We are excited to get this batch processed, we are out of chicken even in our own freezer. Fresh pasture raised chicken is a sign that summer is upon us.

05/10/2026

Happy Mother’s Day!

05/05/2026

Yesterday was a big day for us and we’re feeling relieved and accomplished this morning. For the first time ever we worked cattle with just Nick and I and our two employees.

Usually cattle working is an orchestration of a whole crew of people, working around schedules and always on a Saturday or Sunday due to family and friends having town jobs. Due to the mild, warm winter and sunny spring our pastures are ready NOW. We decided we would try to work calves one day and cows the next. If it didn’t work we would wait for this coming Saturday when our oldest son and a few others could come help. Calves went so well yesterday morning we worked cows in the afternoon and are done. It was surreal last night as we wrapped our minds around what we did. Could be a one time fluke but we did it with a crew of four and can take a deep breath. For reference, we sorted and handled a little over 100 head of cattle. It’s not that it couldn’t have been done this way in the past, it’s just always been a huge family and friend affair with lots of people, food and well, yelling. LOL If you know, you know.

Our herd is VERY anxious to eat the yummy green grass on the other side of the fence. Today we will start pushing them through our pastures to the Big Wood River pasture. Once they are at the river it will take approximately 4-6 weeks to move them through our pasture system and get them back up to the corrals, then the grazing cycle will start over.

Thank you everyone who has helped through the years, offered to be here this year and as always, Jerry and Susan for your continued dedication to provide help even in retirement. Susan and Jerry had hot lunch and ice cream ready for us when we broke for lunch. We are blessed and thankful! God is good.