September 2022 Newsletter

New Products and Products on Sale Building on the popularity of our recently introduced “Mild Italian Pork Patty”, we are now making a “Garlic Pork Patty.” Most of you seem to prefer the larger 6 oz. burgers, so we are preparing them in this format – 3 / package, at $9.00/lb. You can order a […]

July 2022 Newsletter

Dog Days of Summer We are right into the heat of July here on the farm, the time of year when we always pray for rain.  If there is going to be a drought, which is devastating for farms like ours that depend on hay and pasture, it usually begins in July and lingers into […]

June 2022 Newsletter

Those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer Yes!  They are back.  Baseball and soccer.  Swimming in the river.  Going to the beach for the afternoon. Camping.  Community dinners and weekend festivals.  Picnics and parties outside.  Friends and family gathering and celebrating together.  Kids running around on the lawn, turning on the water hose and getting […]

April 2022 Newsletter

The Cattle Are Out! Those dreaded words strike terror into the heart of any livestock farmer.  This announcement greeted me as I was beginning my work of putting together orders in the packing room.  My nephew Joe, stuck his head in the door;  “We have a problem.  The gate was wide open and I can’t […]

March 2022 News

March comes “in like a lamb, out like a lion” March – the fair weather friend month is upon us.  For those of you inclined to the Farmer’s Almanac and iconic sayings about the weather, we note that the first day of March was mild and pleasant, definitely lamb-like.  So we should keep the snowblower […]

February 2022 Newsletter

Wow! Is it Cold!… but “if it don’t winter, it won’t summer” As I write this message to all of you, our loyal customers, I am enjoying the comfort of our wood stove, which single handedly heats our small, one story home, even reaching to the spare bedroom at the far end which doubles as […]

January 2022 newsletter

Zettel Family Farms  Certified Organic Grass-fed Beef, Pastured Pork and Chicken Chepstow, Ontario, Canada To Order, Call Ted @ 519-881-8773 or email ted.zettel@gmail.com. Order online at zettelfamilyfarms.ca/storefront   Happy New Year! All the Zettel family sends to you our hope that 2022 brings you peace!  We want to thank all of you who make this farming adventure […]

February 2021 Newsletter

New Walk-in Freezer and Packing Room   We are putting the finishing touches on our new packing facility, (pics) built into our old driving shed on the home farm where Sam and Michelle and their five boys live. This driving shed was built in 1973 when I was 15 years old, for a total cost […]

October 2020 Newsletter

Thanks be to God! The Thanksgiving weekend is a bittersweet event for us here at Zettel Family Farms. It is the finale of turkey production, which means one less chore each morning and night. The absence of turkeys, who inhabited the space between our house and the river, and occasionally visited our patio without an […]