Kinloch Farm

09/22/2023

The honeybees provide pollination services for our native meadows, flowering hardwoods, and perennial pastures. At the same time, the honeybees provide us, humans, with the incredible fruits of their labor: their honey!

On Saturday, October 14th, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. visit us at Archwood for our Fall Farm Tour and learn more about our honey & apiary. You'll also be able to pick up a jar of our Perfectly Raw Honey at our Farm store, which will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the tour day.

📷: Hugh Kenny

09/19/2023

Who else loves cool autumn mornings as much as we do?

📷: Hugh Kenny

09/16/2023

Have you ever wanted to be a part of a team that values creativity, collaboration, community, dedication, passion, and humility. If so, you may want to apply for a job at Kinloch Farm?

We are currently hiring for the following positions:

Conservation Manager
Farm Store Sales Associate
Maintenance Technician (Estate)
Assistant Gardener (Estate)
Head Gardener (Estate)

You can read the full job descriptions, including benefits and compensation, and apply on our website at kinlochfarm.com/jobs.

📷: Hugh Kenny

09/14/2023

As we navigate one of the most significant droughts our area has experienced in over 40 years, we are in a consistent state of observation and adaptation. We adapt our rotations based on a lack of water. We’re cognizant of where our animal density and impact is ideal and where the environment is a little too brittle at the moment. Oftentimes in periods of drought or weather uncertainty, it can be common to take all the grass that you see while you have it, but that decision has a series of cascading and compounding effects that will be felt for years to come. That stresses the plant, root system, and causes more bare soil. While the environment is brittle, we have to remain steadfast in our efforts to manage our land adaptively. We continue to rotate, we continue to alter stock densities based on the paddocks that we’re in, and we continue to stay the course.

One unforeseen outcome of this hot and dry period is how quickly it set our calving season into overdrive. We started calving earlier than normal and the pace never slowed down. Over the last 3 weeks, we’ve had 101 calves born. It’s been an incredibly efficient calving season so far. This is important so we don’t have calves being born staggered through multiple different seasons and stretched out over 3-4 months. They’re all being born within the same window, which is ideal. This season we’re just 3 weeks ahead of schedule. We’re theorizing it’s heat, drought, and/or stress related, but we can’t be certain. The stress is manageable, but something for us to be aware of now—the plants are stressed, the animals could be warm and stressed (although during the last heat stretch, we parked them in a field with multiple water sources and one of their favorite shade spots!

One of the changes we’re implementing this fall to adjust our management to adapting climate conditions is that we’re planning to alter our calving season next year, so we won’t start calving until mid September. Subsequently, our fall breeding season this year will have an accommodating time frame. If it stays hotter longer, we want to try and calve outside of those high heat windows. It’s just a safer and more comfortable time for the calves to be born.

📷: Hugh Kenny
📝: Mike Peterson

09/12/2023

Capture fond fall memories with us during this year's Fauquier County Agricultural Development Fall Farm Tour on Saturday, October 14th, from 10 am to 2 pm (Farm store open until 6 pm)!

One of the attractions you won’t want to miss is the hay wagon ride & playground. During the wagon ride, family & friends will be taken on a ride through our pastures at Archwood where our cattle graze.

Returning this year we’ll also have our hay playground set up, where kids (and kids at heart) can jump around and explore, as well as live music, educational activities, food, and more!

The event is FREE to the public with parking available on site.

📷: Hugh Kenny

09/09/2023

By the calendar, the official start of fall is still a few weeks away. As the seasons progress, we are allowed an opportunity to pause and witness one of nature's most beautiful transitions.

Whether you live local or are in search of a weekend getaway, visit our farm store for new staples like our own beef bone broth, your favorite cuts of Kinloch Farm 100% grassfed & finished beef, and Virginia-grown products from our friends and neighbors.

Online preorders (with select items available for shipping) are available at kinlochfarm.com.

📷: Hugh Kenny

09/07/2023

We are counting down to the Fauquier County Fall Farm Tour! On Saturday, October 14th from 10 am to 2 pm, join us for a day on the Archwood Parcel of Kinloch Farm for lunch, featuring grass-fed burgers, music by Fiddlin’ Dave and Morgan of Furnace Mountain Band, educational activities, hay rides, and more!

📷: Hugh Kenny

09/04/2023

Today, is a day to celebrate hard work, pause and reflect on the beauty that surrounds us, and savor everything Mother Nature has to offer.

Happy Labor Day! We hope you enjoy this well-deserved day with family and friends, you earned it.

📷: Hugh Kenny

08/31/2023

By the calendar, Labor Day weekend marks the honorary end of summer. It’s a time to gather with family and friends, enjoy the outdoors, and savor the gifts of nature raised right here.

Our Kinloch Farm store is fully stocked with all your favorite cuts of our 100% grassfed and finished beef, as well as pork, lamb, and poultry from our neighbors at Living Pastures Farm, Rucker Farm and Hidden Creek Farm LLC.

Visit us this Thursday to Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm. Or, save time by preordering our beef online at kinlochfarm.com.

📷: Hugh Kenny

08/30/2023

What did the mama cow say to the baby calf?

📷: Hugh Kenny

08/26/2023

You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your FARMily. Our team comes together each day to serve as stewards of the land. From that land, we are so very humbled to be able to share the gifts of nature with you!

You can meet our team by visiting our website, kinlochfarm.com, and then click “about us.”

📷: Hugh Kenny

08/24/2023

Looking for our 100% grassfed and finished beef in Virginia? You’ll now find a curated selection of our restauraunt & retail cuts, beef snack sticks, and ready-to-eat meals at these shops and restaurants.

The Red Fox Inn & Tavern, Middleburg
Provender Garden Kitchen Events, Middleburg
The Market at Bluewater Kitchen, Upperville
Living Pastures Farm Store, Marshall
Artemesia Farm & Vineyard, Bentonville
Erin's Elderberries, Warrenton
4P Foods, Warrenton
The Black Twig, Sperryville
Sumac, Sperryville
Great Country Farms, Bluemont
The Hamilton Mercantile, Hamilton

If your favorite spot is not on the list, we would love for them to join our community. Leave us a comment below, or send us an email at [email protected] to suggest your favorite restaurant or retailer.

📷: Hugh Kenny

08/22/2023

Kinloch Farm is now hiring for two positions: Conservation Manager and Farm Store Sales Associate. Please feel free to share or tag someone who might be interested, and learn more online at kinlochfarm.com/jobs

Conservation Manager: Oversee conservation programs for native meadows, riparian zones, and woodlands. Work alongside the Farm and Conservation Director to enhance the farm's existing conservation ethics. This hands-on role also requires computer skills for communication and data entry. A related degree or eight years of experience is needed.

Farm Store Sales Associate: Assist the Farm Store Manager & Sales Director in operating the retail market. Role includes in-person shifts and off-site tasks like meat pickups and deliveries.

You can read the full job descriptions, including benefits and compensation, and apply on our website.

📷: Hugh Kenny

08/22/2023

Just over a year ago, our Farm Store became friends & neighbors with Laura Goley of Swallowtail Ridge Farm & Botanicals.

Laura’s handcrafted soaps, salves, and body butter are made with care, intention, and ingredients harvested right here, like our tallow.

On September 29th, we cannot wait to help share the new fall line from Laura & Swallowtail Ridge, with you!

🍂My kids started back at school today and I’m in full production mode for the Fall Collection coming September 29th! I’m looking forward to the return of Harvest Soap made with farm-grown butternut squash, the beloved Elderflower Charcoal Facial Bar, refreshing Blue Mountain Mist Toner, Comfrey & Chamomile Lotion Bar, Vanilla Pumpkin Lip Tint and some exciting new tea blends with freshly dried herbs from this summer’s harvest. Plus, Whipped Tallow Body Butter, featuring tallow from , will finally be back in stock!! I know many of you have been anxiously awaiting that. Email list subscribers will get first access to ordering and an offer code for the Fall Collection direct to their inbox on the release day. If you want to join, follow the link in my bio to sign up. I’d love to have you follow along 🥰.

08/20/2023

We recently had Daniel and Morgan from the Robinia Institute, an accredited Savory Institute Hub located in Nelson County, out to Kinloch Farm to perform our Year one audit for the Ecological Outcome Verification program.

We’re ecstatic to be involved in this program with Robinia as it situates Kinloch Farm amongst a group of producers with shared ecological values. The EOV program measures the ecological outcomes of our management and certifies whether or not our ecological health index improves or declines as a result of our management. If it declines, why? Likewise, if it improves. Why?

This program assesses biological soil health, forage species diversity (Including favorable species and ‘undesirable’ populations, water retention, ground cover, plant vigor, among other indicators). If we see a rise in important indicators, then Kinloch Farm would be certified as a farm that is regenerating the landscape.

Coupling this with work from partners such as Clifton Institute and Virginia Working Landscapes that assist in monitoring our grassland bird populations and kestrel populations, we are able to get a clearer picture as to the overall health of our landscape as a result of our management strategies.

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08/18/2023

On Saturday, October 14th, join us at Archwood Green Barns from 10 am to 2 pm for Fall Farm Tour presented by Fauquier County Agricultural Development!

Our program for the tour will touch on our regenerative farming practices across 800 acres of pasture where we implement processes that benefit the animal, ecosystem and farmer.

Visitors may also enjoy lunch featuring our 100% grassfed and finished beef, hay wagon rides into our nearby pasture, farm equipment, and educational activities. Our Kinloch Farm Store will be open from 10 am to 6 pm.

For questions, please contact us at [email protected].

📷: Hugh Kenny

08/15/2023

The art of leathercrafting is a skilled trade that has been around for centuries and is fully embraced in our region via the equine community.

On this we take time to appreciate Pergamena of Montgomery, New York, and Larkins, in Marshall. Both of these makers, are not only experts in their craft but also are helping us to build a more sustainable food system, by taking an item that is seen sometimes as a byproduct of beef production and turning it into something beautiful.

08/12/2023

Mid-August presents an opportunity to savor the last moments of summer. It’s a time for those last-minute trips before the kids go back to school, and a time to enjoy a few more meals under the stars.

Whether you are hitting the road, or live locally, we always enjoy sharing the gift of the food we and our neighbors raise here in the Virginia Piedmont, with you.

Plan your visit to our Farm Store by placing an order for a ready-made quarter or eighth beef bundle on our website at kinlochfarm.com, and clicking “shop now”.

📷: Hugh Kenny

08/10/2023

Notes from the Farm | Looking at the seasons within a calendar year, August presents us with a shoulder season. We’re through with all haymaking, cattle rotations are pretty well dialed in, and we haven’t started calving yet. Now, we have a few weeks to get organized and ready for calving season, get caught up on any fence repairs that we may have temporarily mended during the busy Spring period, and work on some equipment maintenance. We’ll be expecting our first calf by the end of August and then we’ll be calving all the way through the first part of November. We’re expecting 170 calves this year.

📝: Mike Peterson, Farm & Conservation Director
📷: Hugh Kenny

08/07/2023

We welcomed Dr. Pat Keyser from the University of Tennessee Center for Native Grasslands Management to Kinloch on August 4th. We spent the morning with 60 researchers, producers, scientists, local non profits, and industry professionals discussing the importance of Native Warm Season Grasses in a working landscape.

Dr. Keyser shared some great educational material and practical examples of the importance of incorporating Native Warm Season Grasses into a production setting. We then took to the field and spent time in 30 acres of Big Bluestem, Little Bluestem, and Indian Grass while our 33 steers looked on from the comfort of the shade that the Locust Tree casts.

📷: Mike Peterson

08/05/2023

The dog days of summer may be hot, but they’re also full of adventure!

Swing by our farm store in The Plains this weekend. We’re fully stocked on our %100 grassfed and finished beef, with quarter and eighth beef available for same day pick up.

Sunday, our neighbors at the Archwood Green Barns Farmer's Market will be open from 10 am to 2 pm. Pets are always welcome!

📷: Hugh Kenny

08/04/2023

In our riparian areas, we deliberately plant a variety of trees. They provide structure to our soil, shade and habitat for wildlife, limit stream bank erosion, and provide invasive species control. A tall canopy over our wetlands and waterways limits the spread of invasive species that can lead to a monoculture of Japanese Stiltgrass and Arthraxon, both of which love direct sunlight.

We plant between 600-1,500 trees per year, focusing on our riparian areas. We mainly plant live stake willow cuttings, sycamore, persimmon, and hackberry which are species that thrive in wet conditions. We also tag and cage volunteer hardwoods using the theory of “if it wants to be, it shall be.”

📷: Hugh Kenny

07/31/2023

In our online shop, you’ll find your favorite cuts of our mouthwatering 100% grass fed and finished beef.

Order now, by visiting kinlochfarm.com.

Pick-up is available at our farm store in The Plains, Thursday to Sunday, from 10 am and 6 pm, with select items now available for shipping.

📷: Hugh Kenny

07/27/2023

The herd knows how to beat the heat!

📷: Hugh Kenny

07/25/2023

Our store is located at the entry to rural Virginia, nestled within the fields our cattle graze, and just outside the historic town of The Plains. We carry a complete inventory of cuts of our grassfed, grass-finished beef, available for order at kinlochfarm.com.

We welcome you to our shop, every Thursday to Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm. Whether your passing through or have lived here for decades, make a day of it by visiting the shops, restaurants, and attractions that make our community unique.

📷: Bobby Doane

07/22/2023

Some of our bulls, ages 2 - 10, are currently for sale!

Over the last 18 years, we've developed our Kinloch Farm genetic line utilizing Wye, Octoraro, Ballot of Belladrum, and Pinebank Waigroup 41/97. These pedigrees run deep in our current genetic lines. Our bulls are adapted to a low input system and thrive on fescue. They are heavily muscled and moderately framed bulls that will provide generational influence on your herd.

Please visit us at kinlochfarm.com/genetics to view photos and read pedigrees of our bulls for sale. You may also send us a direct message or contact us via email at [email protected].

📷: Hugh Kenny

07/20/2023

We utilize several methods of management within our meadows including prescribed fire, targeted mowing, and specific herbicide applications for non-native species. Fire provides a great reset and keeps our meadows in the young successional phase and prevents the encroachment of non-native woody species in our meadows. Each of these methods we think of as tools within our tool box of management strategies and we utilize them all, situationally, to achieve our goals.

You can learn more about our native meadows and conservation practices at kinlochfarm.com.

📷: Hugh Kenny

07/18/2023

We are always happy to get customer feedback on our 100% grass fed and finished beef. Read what a new customer wrote to us after purchasing a 1/8th beef bundle:

“My wife and I just had our first steaks, and I cannot tell you how great they tasted. Amazing quality steaks, amazing quality beef all around. I’m so glad to have found a farm with high quality beef. If you could send my praise across the Kinloch Farm team that would be great. Looking forward to finishing this 1/8, and sharing the quality with my friends and family.”

Savor the same experience by preordering your 1/8th or 1/4th bundle on our website, or contact us directly at (540) 253-5266 or [email protected].

📷: Hugh Kenny

07/15/2023

Our Farm Store serves as a place to share our 100% grass fed and finished beef with you, and a location for our friends and neighbors to share their food, too!

Garret & Isabelle Heydt, of Rucker Farm Rucker Farm in Flint Hill, are just two of the farmers that provide our Farm Store with chicken. As regenerative farmers, Garret & Isabelle’s flock are rotated daily onto fresh pasture, and supplemented with non-GMO, non-medicated feed sourced locally here in Virginia.

In the words of the Heydts: “There are no antibiotics, hormones, or any inhumane interventions. Just high-quality feed, bugs, fresh water, and sunshine!”

We are happy to have Rucker Farm as part of our extended FARMily, amongst the interwoven web of producers including ourselves that call the Virginia Piedmont home.

You can learn more about our farm store and producer partners at: kinlochfarm.com/farm-store/

📷: Bobby Doane

07/13/2023

“Just grazing and enjoying the view..”

📷: Hugh Kenny

07/11/2023

Taco Tuesday! Chef Ryan Ross, shares her recipe for Kinloch Farm Chipotle Beef Carnitas.

Pull-apart Kinloch Farm beef slow cooked with poblano peppers and onions with notes of chili and cumin, you can enjoy this over cilantro lime rice, or pile it all in a tortilla topped with crema, a crumbly cheese and some ripe avocado and fresh herbs. Try topping it with an egg for a great breakfast carnita!

Get the recipe: https://bit.ly/kinlochfarmcarnitas

📝 📷: Chef Ryan Ross

07/09/2023

We've added some new items to our online shop, including Regenerative Leather and Tallow Candles. Each of these items, as well as our Perfectly Raw Honey, can now be ordered online and shipped nationwide when you place an order at kinlochfarm.com.

Throughout the season, additional products, including our 100% grassfed and finished beef, will be added to our online shipping lineup, along with the return of our beef snack sticks.

For special shipping orders, please email us at [email protected]

07/07/2023

A few weeks ago, Mike & Bobby talked shop at Kinloch Farm with Kelly & Andrew of Artemisia Farm & Vineyard.

Artemisia is a small farm and micro-winery located in Bentonville, Virginia that is dedicated to preserving local foodways through sustainable agriculture and intentional winemaking.

Members of the Artemisia CSA can now add select cuts of Kinloch Farm 100% grassfed and finished beef to their weekly home-delivery CSA subscription.

Kelly & Andrew of Artemisia, intentionally take time to bring you the best food from this region. We were delighted when they asked us if they can help share the food we raise here at Kinloch Farm, with you!

📷: Bobby Doane | Artemisia Farm

07/04/2023

Happy Fourth of July! Thank you for supporting all of the small American farms like Kinloch Farm. We hope you take time to enjoy the day with family and share some of our grassfed & finished beef during the holiday.

📷: Hugh Kenny

07/02/2023

The 4th of July weekend is here! Take time to relax and enjoy this special time for our country with family and friends.

Our Farm Store at Archwood Green Barns Farmer's Market is open today, Sunday, July 2nd from 10 am to 6 pm (Farmers Market 10 am to 2 pm).

We just picked up beef and are ready to help you fill the grill with your favorite cuts of our mouth-watering 100% grassfed and finished beef.

📷: Hugh Kenny

06/30/2023

The honeybees provide pollination services for our native meadows, flowering hardwoods, and perennial pastures. At the same time, the honeybees provide us, humans, with the incredible fruits of their labor: their honey!

You can learn more about our honey & apiary at kinlochfarm.com; where you can pre-order a jar for easy in-store pick-up.

📷: Hugh Kenny

06/26/2023

What do you love about summer? Here are just a few things that we love about the season. Grabbing some shade, cool misty mornings, and the bees!

📷: Hugh Kenny

06/23/2023

Our farm has reservation slots for whole and half beef, with fulfillment estimated for August 10th.

You can secure your spot by visiting us online at kinlochfarm.com and placing a $100 deposit. While there, you may also place a preorder for your favorite cuts for in-store pick up, available Thursday to Sunday between 10 am and 6 pm at our Farm Store in The Plains, Virginia.

Welcome to Kinloch Farm! Family owned since 1960, Kinloch Farm represents generations of organic practices and shared values in protected open space, land and w

06/17/2023

Happy Father’s Day weekend to all the dads out there! We appreciate everything you do for your family, friends, neighbors, and loved ones.

On Sunday, savor the day and visit our Farm Store and Archwood Green Barns Farmer's Market in The Plains. Pickup your favorite cuts of our mouthwatering grass fed, grass finished beef and enjoy the sights and sounds of Fauquier Counties 2nd oldest farmers' market.

Our store is open on Father's Day from 10 am to 6 pm, and the farmers’ market will be open from 10 am to 2 pm. See you soon!

📷: Hugh Kenny

06/08/2023

This week our friends from The Clifton Institute shared an exciting update regarding our resident Kestrel population here on Kinloch Farm. We learned, that the Kestrel population on the farm is booming and that each of our Kestrel boxes on the farm were active this year.

On Wednesday, members of our team helped band fourteen Kestrels on the property to track their activities.

Enjoy these photos from the event!

📷: Mike Peterson