The Cupp Farm is located in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia with views of both the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountain Range. A variety of crops, produce, and livestock are raised in this beautiful, natural setting.
The Cupp family sold their third generation, grade A dairy herd about ten years ago and Mike now runs a brood cow operation (mostly Angus) raising beef on the family farm where the dairy was at one time. In addition to pastured beef, Mike grows and sells quality hay both in square and large round bales. During the warm season, Mike loves to work in his large garden where he grows produce to sell from his farm stand. In addition to the spring and summer vegetable garden, he puts out about three acres of potatoes every year which he sells directly from the farm. Some of his potato and vegetable customers have been buying from him for many years and he has an established relationship with a number of families in the community who enjoy the harvest from his crops season after season. Mike is carrying on the farming tradition of his father and his grandfather who farmed this very same land.
While Mike's love of farming lies mostly in growing crops and produce, Tammy's passion is with the animals. Tammy has a small herd of "family" cows that includes standard size Jerseys registered with the American Jersey Cattle Association as well as Miniature Jerseys registered with the American Miniature Jersey Association. She also has a small herd of Miniature Nubian dairy goats dual regsitered with The Miniature Goat Registry and the Miniature Dairy Goat Association. Tammy uses the milk from the cows and goats to make cheese and other dairy products for her family.
Other animals on the farm include a mixed flock of free range hens (transitioning over to all Speckled Sussex this year), Calico Turkeys, and seasonally raised feeder pigs. All of these animals enjoy a diet that includes the nourishing milk from the cow's and goats.
Of course, no farm would be complete without the farm dogs. Three Miniature Dachshunds, a Pembroke Welsh Corgi, and a Great Pyrenees livestock guardian dog make their home here on the farm as well.
Although Tammy was raised for seven years on a farm as a child and worked at a dairy when she lived in Alaska as a young adult, her farming ventures did not begin in earnest until she married Mike in 2005. T. Cupp Miniatures is her addition to the existing, generational Cupp Family Farm.
Together, Mike and Tammy have a partnership that includes love for each other as well as a love of the land they farm together. Both of them bring different dreams, ideas, goals, strengths and expertise to that partnership. Together they seek to live a sustainable life, raising their animals humanely with a deep amount of gratitude to their Creator for allowing them to be the caretakers of a small portion of what He has created.
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tcuppminiatures@yahoo.com
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