08/23/2023
Massimoo loves her Mama, Freckles! That is how you get a real cowlick!
Our family-owned dairy farm offers a variety of products located outside of greater Richmond! Not sure if you're interested in a herd share?
White Oak Meadows holds a mission that allows for your family to experience the freshness of owning your very own farm without having to leave your house through raw milk herd shares. When you buy a herd share from us you're buying a portion of our dairy cattle and in return, you receive locally produced raw milk every week! Raw milk has a variety of benefits due to its high amounts of amino acids
, probiotics, and an array of many other beneficial enzymes. We offer a variety of other products such as farm-fresh honey, grass-fed beef, free-range eggs, and even lumbar products. Please reach out or visit our website for more product and herd share information.
Massimoo loves her Mama, Freckles! That is how you get a real cowlick!
Buttercup shared her lunch with Dove and Brooke after we stole theirs for our herdshare members. Lily is such a good mama and our high-speed milking machine!
Hershey and her heifer calf. Welcome to the world!
Cuteness sighting of the day! We hope everyone is enjoying these adorable photos as much as we are! 😃
Hope everyone is having a great Thursday so far! We are super excited to announce that we have added a new drop location!
This location is at Willow Glen Rd, Midlothian, VA 23112.
Please reach out to us if you have any questions, we would be happy to help! 🐮🐓
Freckles’ new heifer calf meeting Inferno! 🐮
Welcome to the farm! Freckles' little heifer calf!
Mama eats good thanks to White Oaks Meadows Farm 😉
*Photo courtesy from one of our lovely customers!
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY EVERYONE!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸
From our family to yours, we hope you all have a great day!
Buttercup, Dove, Magnolia, and Brooke checking out the new guy this morning. Joy was beside the baby keeping a close eye on the situation. 🐮🐄
Joy and her new bull-calf born late yesterday afternoon!
From our White Oak Meadows family to yours, we hope you have a great Christmas! We’d love to wish everyone a very happy holiday season! Thank you for all of the support this past year. 🎄🎅🏼
Coral, now six days old, is mimicking her momma, Millie. "What the heck is this stuff?" She's not actually eating it yet, but is mouthing it and makes little hay spit balls.
Wanda had her little heifer calf early this morning. We should have a break now before the next one is due. It's been a whirlwind these last three days!
Millie and her heifer calf! Yes....that is a fourth calf just born!
We are so happy to welcome our new additions to the farm! Ginger calved last night, and June Bug this morning 🥰
Pattie and her bull calf. She was thoughtful enough to wait until all this rain "mooooved" out to calve.
Willie had her heifer calf on December 7th, Pearl Harbor Day. So of course, the baby's name is "Pearl"!
NEW UPDATES: River Street Market Status and New Drop Location on East Side of Richmond!
We have a new location for delivery on North Lake Ave, Richmond, VA 23223, which may be convenient for many of you who visited us at the Dorey Park Farmers Market each Saturday. This location will allow you to pick up herdshare dairy products (milk and butter), as well as eggs, honey, beef, and chicken. We plan to be back at Dorey Park Farmer's Market beginning in June 2023.
In the meantime, we wanted to update you all on the status of the River Street Market in Petersburg. Several of our Dorey Park customers had planned to come to visit our set-up at the River Street Market to purchase their products after the Dorey Park Farmers Market closed for the season.
We were approved by the River Street Market board on October 12, 2022, with our first date to set up as a vendor on November 19, 2022. Following approval, we began receiving vendor emails from the market manager, which included concerns that many vendors were not showing on Saturdays. Due to cancellations, we were offered a spot prior to our November 19 assigned date but then it was withdrawn when the market manager realized she would not be able to give us access to electricity at that spot. We understood that decision since we do require electricity.
We were required to obtain a permit from the city of Petersburg to sell at the market, which we did. However, on November 12, we received an email from the market manager telling us that other vendors and customers complained of another vendor selling meat, so she was withdrawing the board's approval. Our approved application clearly stated we would be selling our 100% grass-fed beef and pastured poultry, in addition to our free-range eggs (non-GMO and soy-free supplemented poultry feed). We can understand other vendors being concerned about competition, but we do find it interesting that customers would complain about having choices.
We reached out to the board since these decisions are made by the board and not the market manager. To date, no one from the board has bothered to respond. As such, we will not be setting up at the River Street Market.
If you are interested in getting more information on this location, please let us know and we'll be happy to provide specifics.
Say "hello" to Maybelle and her heifer calf!
Happy Thanksgiving, from our family to your home!!
To our customers who have asked us when we will be at River Street Market in Petersburg. Unfortunately we will not be there this Saturday as planned this week. Apparently the Market has some internal unfinished business they need to address before we can be there. We greatly apologize for the inconvenience. Please let us know if there was something you were looking for and we will try to accommodate you on our regular Richmond area deliveries next Friday.
Beginning November 19th, White Oak Meadows will be at the River Street Market. We will be selling our grass-fed/finished beef, pastured poultry, free-range eggs, and honey. Please come out and show support for the local community, as well as our family owned farm. We’d love to see you all on the 19th!!
Maddie had her heifer calf this morning after a long night of waiting. Maddie is a Jersey x Holstein and was bred to an Ayrshire, making the baby a Jersey x Holstein x Ayrshire cross.
Willow and her heifer calf born last night. The little spitfire is already hiking around the field with momma in hot pursuit, trying to keep a watchful eye on her!
Silly us! Here we were thinking we'd get an extra hour of sleep last night, but Ripple and her heifer calf had other ideas.
Pie and her heifer calf 🥰
Pie gave us a Halloween treat today with her little heifer calf!
Nascar, Oz, and Heartman enjoying the warm sunny day. Heartman apparently decided the fence around the yuccas had to be removed so he could sit amongst them! He has since been evicted from the yucca patch.
Mommas and babies enjoying a warm fall day!
A busy day on the farm today! Two mammas calved within an hour of one another!
Here’s an update on Nascar!
Over the last week, Nascar had made remarkable progress. He can now get up on his own without any any assistance from us. We still need to ensure he lays down properly because if he doesn't settle on his left side, he does not quite yet have the strength to upright himself and then get up, from the right side. His coordination has greatly improved and enjoys chasing chickens.
The biggest improvement is his ability to nurse and no longer needs to be bottle fed. We initially had to help balance him and support his head in a position which allowed him to eat, but not cut off his air supply. After a couple of days, he figured out the best way to nurse and breathe properly, while supporting himself. We would stand by to help with his balance, only if needed.
At this point he can nurse completely without supervision. In fact, he's been known to sneak a few drinks from Jaimie's mother, but Indy doesn't mind.
We have a GPS tracking collar on him so we can more easily locate him throughout the day to check on him. He's really putting on some mileage! Toward the evening, he gets a case of the zoomies with Jamie and Heartman. One last bedtime snack and then off to his little stall for the night with his stuffed horse, Paul Revere.
Taz and her son, Oz. The latest addition!
The 3 Musketeers! Nascar, Heartman, and Jamie hanging out. 🥰
A new arrival to the farm last night! Molly did a great job with her little bull calf. We haven't named him yet, but it will likely have a theme related to the heart ♥️ on his forehead!
Check this out! White Oak Meadows meat was selected as a "staff pick" at Good Foods Grocery in Richmond. Stop in and try some for yourself!!
A very special shout out to equine vet Dr. Carmen Franck Flippin in Amelia. Even though Nascar is not a horse, Dr. Carmen agreed to squeeze Nascar into her very busy schedule to assess him for chiropractics and acupuncture. His first visit was with her last night. She took radiographs and is reading those more thoroughly before his next appointment. But, she did do some minor chiro adjustment last night and a few acupuncture needles. He fell sound asleep during the acupuncture session and all the way home. She's willing to work with him weekly to help him as best we can and said to continue to do what we've been doing on our end, because it's clearly helping.
Today he is full of s***k and walked around with Jim to help tend to the chickens.
For the medical diagnosis and updates, please refer to Dr. Carmen's page:
Carmen Franck Flippin, DVM
https://m.facebook.com/DrCarmenFranck/
Part of our adorable herd 🥰
Meet Mia's little bull calf, Nascar. He has some physical challenges, so we're working with him throughout the day and late into the night to help him get stronger and give him the best chance for success.
Meet Jamie, the newest addition to the White Oak Meadows herd. She and her mama, Indy, are doing well!
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Thank you to everyone who turned out to the Dorey Park Farmers Market last Saturday! Our White Oak Meadows booth was so popular, we've been allowed to set up in two side-by-spots this coming Saturday, June 11. In addition to 10% of the proceeds from last week's market having been donated to the Northeast Coonhound Rescue, Inc. to support Molly, Marcy, Suder, and Dudley, the four Virginia beagles undergoing heartworm treatment, many of you also donated additional monies to support this worthy cause. We're looking forward to seeing everyone again this weekend. We will be there with our pastured-raised "Phyllis' Phinest" eggs and chicken (soy-free and non-GMO), 100% grass fed/finished beef, raw honey, produce from our Virginia-based partner at Heritage Vegetables and Produce, as well as a few other goodies!
For those of you who don't know, this is Splash! Splash had a bad fall on January 17th and is currently going through rehab until she can walk by herself again. Our vet came out the same night and recommended we use a sling on Splash in the meantime. A special thanks to our trusted veterinary staff and Justin - Splash's current caretaker!