Michael and Karma Glos began their small, diversified organic farm in Berkshire, New York, located 20 miles east of Ithaca, in 1996. Since then, three of those years have included commercial operations.
They specialize in producing free-range organic meat (poultry, pork, beef) and organic herbs and specialty vegetables, and are certified by NOFA-NY Certified Organic LLC. All the vegetables, herbs and poultry are certified; the pork and beef are raised according to organic standards after 6 weeks of age.
The Glos' launched their business with no formal training, but relied on a love of farming and their experiences as farming apprentices.
The first year that we started out we really did not know that much about raising poultry for meat, but Karma had raised chickens for eggs although mostly just for home use. So our way of testing the waters was to raise just about fifty birds, and it ended up we raised about one hundred that year....(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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