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A fat guy tired of being fat tries every fad diet and exercise program available and fails miserably. After playing that game for a couple years, same fat guy gives real food a chance at the urging of his skinny doctor and a 560 cholesterol level. During this journey, fat guy realizes that finding real food in Havasu is damn near impossible so regularly travels to farms/ranches and farmers markets to buy what he needs. Fat guy really likes the people he’s meeting and admires the life they live and asks fat guys wife if she’d be interested in starting a farm. Fat guys wife is cool as shit and says, “absolutely.” This excites fat guy in his pants. Too bad fat guy can’t see this excitement without bending over. Fat guy is determined to fix this.
The story behind the “why” really is that simple. How a fat, Coors Light guzzling river rat turned aspiring first generation farmer came to feed 500+ families annually while holding on to the offseason dream of eventual cab-over camper living on the Parker Strip with an old Hallett flatty buoyed offshore, not so simple.
A lot of you have met my wife, Amy. She’s one in a million, and I intend to grow very old with her, which meant getting my shit together physically. After seven years of practicing what I preach and eating what I sell, I’ve made it. Am I the chiseled picture of perfection? Nope. Saggy skin, some stretch marks, and a good 10-12lbs of cushion on the love handles to keep Amy happy- that’s me. But, I’m down 60lbs and have kept it off for a few years now, and my blood work comes back perfect every six months. My cardio is great; muscle mass is decent for my age too. I can outwork most 25 year old’s, wear my granddaughter out and (mom, cover your eyes) bang my wife good enough to make her walk like a baby giraffe several times per week.
To me, “I’m there” means a balance of staying active and eating clean but also having a couple nights per month with frozen Patron shots, too many Coors Lights, and about 7 million pounds of chips and salsa. The following morning is typically started with a “fuck me,” then a decent meal and sweat my way through the days chores, and then I’m back on track till the next round of bad choices.
Hopefully, this thread will entertain you late 40 somethings that feel the pains I used to feel and give me an opportunity for shameless plugs for our farm business.
From 261 down to 185
Me and the wife who refuses to wear clothes in the summer. I started doing push ups and light workouts with a set of adjustable dumbbells' a couple years ago and put on about 15lbs of muscle. The nearest gym is an 80 mile round trip so I do what I can (it ain't much) but add in loading my own hay and 5000-6000lbs monthly in 50lb sacks of feed while upping my protein intake with eggs, ground beef and extra steaks. I've held 200-205 longer than I can remember
Fast forward to today, our most popular weekly offerings for home delivery. (Home delivery way before Covid made it cool!)
After raising thousands of Cornish cross meat chickens on grass pasture, we have it down to near perfection. Raising and processing them like we do produces a flavor and tenderness not found anywhere else. Horror stories of unsanitary conditions and illnesses are eliminated.
$25.00 Whole birds, frozen and ready to cook, delivered to your door.
$15.00 Cornish game hens, frozen and ready to cook, delivered to your door.
$16.50 Grass-fed ground beef in 2lb packages. We grind an entire steer, leaving all the prime cuts in for a flavor and texture you can’t find anywhere else. Brisket, sirloins, chuck, tri-tip, rib-eye, T-bone, porterhouse- it’s all left in there, dry-aged for tenderness and flavor before being ground.
Specialties like beef and chicken liver and heart, beef tongue, oxtail are typically in stock as well.
Raw food diet for your dogs? Beef bones, heart, liver, kidney, sweetbread, and chicken organs are always ready for $5.00lb.
$25.00 for Amy’s super popular do it yourself beef bone broth kit. 5 meaty pounds of bones plus organic spices and Amy’s simple recipe, and you’re getting a blast of healthy collagen to repair the damage you did to yourself over summer!
Not weekly, of course, but year-round we custom raise beef by the ¼ ½ and whole. We try to have the wait times down to just a couple months now. $100 per ¼ deposit gets you going. We have a ton of happy references and repeat customers right here on RDP.
A smaller 1/4 we kept for ourselves in a 14cu ft standup.
We also raise honeybees and sell about 6 gallons of honey each year.
We’ll go into detail in future posts regarding what and how we raise things along with the mechanical process of how all this works. Lots of learning, changes, and ridiculous failures getting to this point and I'll talk about them all.
Hit the website at fortrockfarms.com to sign up for the email or message me here and I’ll add your address manually. Like our Facebook page as well since we seem to update that more than anything. I’m available for questions or orders anytime at 928-486-4043 or Amy 928-208-0611.
Delivery is typically Tuesday but we try to do one weekend delivery per month for out of town customers. About half our RDP customers have Amy just load their fridge or freezers during the week so the farm goodies are there for them when they show up for the weekend.
We’d love it if any of our existing customers chimed in on this thread as well. Always love seeing your meal pics.
The story behind the “why” really is that simple. How a fat, Coors Light guzzling river rat turned aspiring first generation farmer came to feed 500+ families annually while holding on to the offseason dream of eventual cab-over camper living on the Parker Strip with an old Hallett flatty buoyed offshore, not so simple.
A lot of you have met my wife, Amy. She’s one in a million, and I intend to grow very old with her, which meant getting my shit together physically. After seven years of practicing what I preach and eating what I sell, I’ve made it. Am I the chiseled picture of perfection? Nope. Saggy skin, some stretch marks, and a good 10-12lbs of cushion on the love handles to keep Amy happy- that’s me. But, I’m down 60lbs and have kept it off for a few years now, and my blood work comes back perfect every six months. My cardio is great; muscle mass is decent for my age too. I can outwork most 25 year old’s, wear my granddaughter out and (mom, cover your eyes) bang my wife good enough to make her walk like a baby giraffe several times per week.
To me, “I’m there” means a balance of staying active and eating clean but also having a couple nights per month with frozen Patron shots, too many Coors Lights, and about 7 million pounds of chips and salsa. The following morning is typically started with a “fuck me,” then a decent meal and sweat my way through the days chores, and then I’m back on track till the next round of bad choices.
Hopefully, this thread will entertain you late 40 somethings that feel the pains I used to feel and give me an opportunity for shameless plugs for our farm business.
From 261 down to 185
Me and the wife who refuses to wear clothes in the summer. I started doing push ups and light workouts with a set of adjustable dumbbells' a couple years ago and put on about 15lbs of muscle. The nearest gym is an 80 mile round trip so I do what I can (it ain't much) but add in loading my own hay and 5000-6000lbs monthly in 50lb sacks of feed while upping my protein intake with eggs, ground beef and extra steaks. I've held 200-205 longer than I can remember
Fast forward to today, our most popular weekly offerings for home delivery. (Home delivery way before Covid made it cool!)
After raising thousands of Cornish cross meat chickens on grass pasture, we have it down to near perfection. Raising and processing them like we do produces a flavor and tenderness not found anywhere else. Horror stories of unsanitary conditions and illnesses are eliminated.
$25.00 Whole birds, frozen and ready to cook, delivered to your door.
$15.00 Cornish game hens, frozen and ready to cook, delivered to your door.
$16.50 Grass-fed ground beef in 2lb packages. We grind an entire steer, leaving all the prime cuts in for a flavor and texture you can’t find anywhere else. Brisket, sirloins, chuck, tri-tip, rib-eye, T-bone, porterhouse- it’s all left in there, dry-aged for tenderness and flavor before being ground.
Specialties like beef and chicken liver and heart, beef tongue, oxtail are typically in stock as well.
Raw food diet for your dogs? Beef bones, heart, liver, kidney, sweetbread, and chicken organs are always ready for $5.00lb.
$25.00 for Amy’s super popular do it yourself beef bone broth kit. 5 meaty pounds of bones plus organic spices and Amy’s simple recipe, and you’re getting a blast of healthy collagen to repair the damage you did to yourself over summer!
Not weekly, of course, but year-round we custom raise beef by the ¼ ½ and whole. We try to have the wait times down to just a couple months now. $100 per ¼ deposit gets you going. We have a ton of happy references and repeat customers right here on RDP.
A smaller 1/4 we kept for ourselves in a 14cu ft standup.
We also raise honeybees and sell about 6 gallons of honey each year.
We’ll go into detail in future posts regarding what and how we raise things along with the mechanical process of how all this works. Lots of learning, changes, and ridiculous failures getting to this point and I'll talk about them all.
Hit the website at fortrockfarms.com to sign up for the email or message me here and I’ll add your address manually. Like our Facebook page as well since we seem to update that more than anything. I’m available for questions or orders anytime at 928-486-4043 or Amy 928-208-0611.
Delivery is typically Tuesday but we try to do one weekend delivery per month for out of town customers. About half our RDP customers have Amy just load their fridge or freezers during the week so the farm goodies are there for them when they show up for the weekend.
We’d love it if any of our existing customers chimed in on this thread as well. Always love seeing your meal pics.
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