Elmwood Stock Farm

Nationwide 🥩 shipping. http://elmwoodstockfarm.com/welcome At Elmwood Stock Farm, we have been farming as a family for six generations. We farm 550 acres of prime Scott County Bluegrass farmland that supports abundant diversity. We raise quality food that we stand behind. For example, our Black Angus cows are bred and raised by the Bell family at Elmwood Stock Farm, so we can provide the genetics,

bloodlines and background of each animal to any buyer. This experience and integrity started with Cecil D. Bell at Bel-Clair Farm, also in Scott County. Cecil and his wife, Clara, operated a farmstead typical of many in the 1930s or 1940s. Horses, mules, and eventually a tractor pulled equipment through the fields, the dairy cow gave milk for her own calf as well as for the family. Barnyard chickens gave eggs, a little fertilizer, and eventually starred at the Sunday dinner table. Hogs, lambs, turkeys and beef steers pastured on grass and clover. With a few new, helpful technologies, Elmwood Stock Farm still honors Cecil and Clara's resourceful, sustainable farming practices. Today, electric fencing helps keep our pastured poultry safe from predators, trickle irrigation conserves water and reduces conditions favorable for disease, and lab testing identifies microbial life in our compost. We have always rotated our crops, used cover crops in the off season, “rested” our fields, and maintained livestock as part of the “mix” in an effort to help build on the high-quality land we farm through the blessing on mother nature. Over hundreds of years this land has raised healthy bison, fertile sheep and cattle along with exceptional horses—and humans. Our time-honored, proven practices of diversifying crops and livestock, seasonal rotation, building good soil with compost and cover crops, letting poultry out of the houses onto the pastures, and producing vegetables and fruits in season with the sun and rains succeed because they are what nature intended. Today, Cecil and Kay Bell live and farm full-time at Elmwood. Cecil oversees his Black Angus cattle herd, makes hay, and maintains pastures, barns and on-farm construction projects. Cecil's son and his wife, John and Melissa Bell, oversee all of the vegetable production and the burley tobacco crop. John and Melissa partner in the cattle herd, make compost, and manage the on-farm labor. Cecil and Kay's daughter, Ann, and her husband, Mac Stone, present Elmwood's fine foods at farmers' markets, maintain the organic poultry and sheep flock, and manage Elmwood's acclaimed, growing CSA.