Author: Jkl Moser

We are taking beef orders for 2025.  We butcher every month – January, February, March and April.  Then we plan to butcher again in September.  Our beef is all grass fed and finished.  Our beef is USDA certified.  It comes frozen, shrink wrapped, weighed and labeled.  Typically there are 3 banana sized boxes of beef per quarter.  Quarters weigh from 160 – 200 lbs hanging weight.  Give us a call or send an email to get your name on our beef list.  We require a $150 deposit to confirm your quarter.  We’d love to have you as a customer.

Saturday, September 21 we were a part of Ellington Farm Day.  We opened our doors to the public and invited everyone in.  We were pleased with the turnout from 10:00 – 3:00.  The favorite activity for our guests was to feed the pigs.  Young and old enjoyed this opportunity.  You can hold an apple to them, and they will take a bite out of it, just like we do.  It’s fun!

Our pigs are Berkshires and we are very pleased with their meat.  We have repeat customers coming back, so we think our customers are enjoying the pork as much as we are.  We get our piglets at 15 – 20 pounds from someone right here in Ellington.  The Iowa turned Connecticut farmer has enjoyed his hobby of farrowing pigs for many years.  We are fortunate to be his customer.  We have a great relationship with him, especially since our daughter married his son.  We are keeping the farming right in the family.  (We also share 2 adorable granddaughters!)

We raise the pigs all summer and butcher in October.  The pigs will weigh in between 175 – 225 lbs.  It’s amazing to watch them gain weight from 15 lbs to 200 lbs in 6 short months!

The rest of our Farm Day included watching the cows, learning about the bedded pack barn, and Touch A Tractor, which is popular with the little ones.  Maybe you will be able to come next year!  We’d love to have you!

It’s been awhile since we’ve put an update on the site.  Life gets busy with the day to day, and time slips by.  We are in the last weeks of caring for the pigs here at Sunset Valley Farms.  This Saturday our first load of 10 will be heading to Colchester to the butcher shop.  Tim does a great job and we appreciate the relationship we are building with him.

They are somewhere around 200 lbs, with a few pigs a little less, and a few pigs a little more.  We will get some help on Saturday – loading 10 pigs into the trailer is a work of art!  There will be some juicy tomatoes and delicious apples to entice them in.  They love their fruits and vegetables!

October 24, 2023

While in Colorado this summer on vacation, we ate dinner at an amazing restaurant called Grassburger grassburger.com

We were in Durango, Colorado enjoying the beautiful weather, amazing scenery and very good eats.  We were drawn to this restaurant for obvious reasons … grass fed beef!  Check out their site and learn amazing facts about grass fed beef and the health benefits of including grass fed beef in your diet.

Durango is known for its stunning natural beauty.  We took the train from Durango to Silverton on the narrow gauge railroad.  The beauty was magnificent.  At the end of the day, enjoying dinner at Grassburger’s delicious restaurant, was a perfect ending to our beautiful day.    

We have 25 piglets this year.  Well, not sure how long we can refer to them as piglets.  We got them at about 18lbs each, and they are pushing 100 lbs.  Does that officially make them a pig?

In this picture, the piglets are still pretty little.  Our grandson  loves to go to see the “piggies” and offer them some food.  Soon they will be eating apples, peaches and other fresh fruits and vegetables from a local market.

We can only say lazy days of summer because we just finished our 3rd hay cutting.  Thanks to the abundance of rain in July, our cutting was full and lush.  We have enough hay now to carry us through the winter months.  

We need extra this year because we anticipate expanding our herd so we will have more beef to offer to our customers!  That’s You!  Thank you for your past (and future) business.  We love selling our grass fed beef to our faithful long time customers, as well as some new ones we’ve met in the past year.  Right now we are accepting deposits for February, 2024.  If you are interested, please contact us and let us know what you’d like.  The deposit will hold your quarter or half for you.

Our cows are grazing on our pastures for the summer.  We move these Angus / Charolais / Holstein  beef from pen to pen about every 10 – 12 days.  Once they’ve “mowed” all the grass in the pen, we move them to the next pasture.  After we move them, we mow the pasture to cut down any weeds there might be, allowing lush and nutritious grass to grow.  We continue rotating the beef throughout the summer and into the fall, when eventually, we move them to the barn.  Then they feed on the hay we cut during the summer months.  This diet allows us to sell completely grass fed beef to our customers, who are looking for a healthier diet.  Let us know if you’d like to get on our customer list! 

Fall is here, and the temps seem to be dropping more quickly than usual!  We butchered our first group of pigs, and our second batch goes to the butcher this week.  Chores are winding down for the season and we are ready for a slower pace!  

We did our final beef butchering of the year, finished our hay and are ready for the next season.  We have grass fed beef available by the quarter, half or whole beginning 2023.  Currently, our beef is sold through March, so if you want some spring beef, please give us a call at 860-670-0495 or email us at jklmoser@gmail.com and we will get you on the list.  We are now accepting deposits of $150 to reserve your quarter.

Thanks for your support throughout 2022!

Maggie had her third litter on July 6!  We are so EXCITED.  She is the best mom and doing such a good job feeding and caring for her puppies!  She had 3 girls and 6 boys.  We are looking for loving forever homes for our puppies.  Let us know if you are interested in adding one of these friendly and lovable puppies to your family!  Give me a call at 860-324-2520.

We have just finished our last butchering of beef for the year.    Our pigs are butchered.  Our hay is cut, baled and wrapped.  It’s starting to look like we are ready for winter!  We’ve got 120 round bales to feed our cows through the winter.  We are extremely thankful for a wonderful hay harvest this year, thanks to the right amount of rain and sunshine.

Soon we will be moving our beef into the barn for the winter.  We’ve gotten a couple of good frosts the last two nights, so we will be opening those round bales before we know it.

We wish to thank all of our customers from this past year.  We butchered a total of 17 cows, providing delicious grass-fed beef to over 60 customers!  We also want to thank our pork customers.  This year we raised 20 pigs and sold our pork to 31 customers.  Again, thank you all.  Without you, we wouldn’t have an operational and productive small family farm!

Thinking ahead to 2022, our January butchering is sold out, but we still have beef available in February and March.  We will be purchasing our piglets in April, so give us a call or send an email to let us know if you are interested in either pork or beef.  You can call Steve at 860-670-0495 or email us at jklmoser@gmail.com.

Holiday blessings from our family to yours!

We have a large quantity of beef bones and organ meat.  Please give us a call if you are interested in purchasing some.  The bones make a great bone broth or beef stocky for soup.  

The bones are also great for dog bones!  Just enough meat left on them to make a happy dog!

It’s that time of year already!  We are taking orders for pork for 2021.  We will be reserving our piglets in April, and they will be arriving at the farm the third week of May.  It’s always exciting to see them at 18 lbs and then watch them grow!  We feed them all summer and butcher in early October.

Their diet consists of grain and seasonal foods.  We love giving our pigs fruits and vegetables from a local market.  They devour it and are always ready for us to bring more!  We know what goes it affects the quality of the meat, so we are sure to keep them on a healthy diet.  

Let us know if you’d like to stop by and visit the farm.  Bring the kiddos … they love to see the pigs!

Call or email today to reserve your 1/2 or whole pig.  Steve can be reached at 860-670-0495 or you can email Jan at jklmoser@gmail.com.

We are waiting for your call!

So far this year, we have butchered 6 steers, and have 17 still in the barn.  They are enjoying the hay we harvested last summer.  3 of these will be heading to the butcher mid-April, and beef will be ready in the beginning of May.  Most of these slots are already filled with customers waiting for that delicious grass fed beef!  Covid has certainly kept us busy here at the farm!

After butchering the 3 in April, we won’t be butchering again until August.  We have some customers on the list for that time, so if you are interested, please give us a call or email us to put your name on a quarter.  

We missed a couple of weeks posting pictures and we are sorry about that!  Lots going on in our lives and family.  We’ve been enjoying the pups every day and wonder what it will be like when they are no longer “ours”.  We will miss them, that is for sure.  We are excited about all their future families.  We feel confident they will be well cared for and loved!

We’ve begun feeding them 3 times per day and Maggie is only nursing twice a day, and will soon be done.  They are growing into roly- poly puppies!  So fun to watch them play together.

Today we decided it was time to add a little “beef” to our puppies.  We put all their food in these cow dishes, and they went after it!  They are being raised on a beef farm, after all!  Check out the photo gallery for more pics…

We are excited to say that all of our puppies have found new homes.  We feel they are being adopted into wonderful family homes that will love them and care for them!  Formal adoption day is January 25, and until then, we will love and enjoy our time with them in our home.  

We have begun a list of future adoptive families, so if you are looking for an AKC golden in your future, feel free to reach out to us and we will add you to our list.

A big Thank You to each and every one who has reached out to us these past weeks to inquire about our puppies.

We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Healthy & Happy New Year!

We are now accepting deposits for these adorable AKC puppies!  Just give us a call or send an email and we can set up a visit.  Two of our puppies have loving families waiting to take them home on January 25.  In the meantime, we are enjoying every day with them!  We look forward to hearing from you at 860-324-2520 or jklmoser@gmail.com

We added a bit of holiday cheer to Maggie with a bright red festive bow!  She didn’t seem to mind!  The pups are growing quickly.  Their eyes are mostly open and they are beginning to walk.  It’s fun to watch them explore their world and try to navigate their box.

We are excited to soon be meeting their future owners.  Looking for good, loving homes for these sweet pups!  Check back next week for more photos!

One week old! It’s hard to believe our Golden Retriever AKC puppies are 1 week old already.  This week has flown by watching these little ones grow.  Beauty may be in the eyes of the beholder, but we definitely think our puppies are adorable!  We can picture them with red and green bows around their necks, all dressed up for Christmas!