Bottle Hill Maple and Beef

09/05/2026

We had a new moo out in the pasture yesterday! 🐮 This bull calf is very happy, healthy, and heavy! He needed a ride back tho the farm in the gator since we couldn’t carry him through the mud!

Stop by Matt's Hilltop Harvest this weekend for some sunflowers, maple products, visit the animals and try the corn mazes!

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09/01/2026

🐮🐮🐮Vote for your favorite calf name!🐮🐮🐮

We picked 6 names people came up with. Unfortunately quite a few of you wanted Daisy, but one of our piglets has already claimed that name!

Dottie, Dolly, Margie, Moolinda, Olive, and Minnie.

⬇️⬇️Comment your top 3 votes and help us name our calves! Whichever 3 names have the most votes will be chosen. Wednesday at 5 pm will be the end of voting.

Our barn friends are still getting used to their new homes. With a little patience and time, they’ll be just as curious about you as you are them! And we can’t wait!

🎉We also can’t wait to finally have names for our calves! Happy name voting!

08/22/2026

08/20/2026

Lucy and her calf, Oreo 🍪🐮

08/19/2026

We had a busy afternoon Monday canning up 80 more gallons of syrup for this fall! 🍁 Pick up yours anytime at the self-serve stand at the sugarhouse (304 CR-3) or order online for pickup or shipping anywhere in the 🇺🇸! Check out our website! 🍁🥩 bottlehillmapleandbeef.com

08/18/2026

We got our automatic cow chow dispenser rebuilt and installed last week! Our old feed bunk had seen better days and fallen apart, so we replaced it with new precast sections and a wooden structure to hold the conveyor. We don’t use a mixer wagon or bunk silos, all of our feed is dispensed automatically from our upright silos, across a system of conveyors and to our stationary mixer or directly to the feed bunk pictured. If all works smoothly, the cows are fed by the flip of a few switches while other barn chores are being accomplished!

08/13/2026

We woke up to TWO surprises in the field this morning! 🐮🐮We have a large group of the far off pregnant cows and heifers in a pasture near the pumpkin patch (about a 1/2 mile from the main farm) and it turns out that a couple of the cows were not so far off! Sometimes breeding dates aren’t always 100% accurate, our records showed these girls due to calve the end of September. 🤷‍♂️ Both calves are full term and the pairs are happy and healthy!

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Freezer beef available in October and January!

08/01/2026

This week has seen some big changes, including the end of an era! We milked cows in our barn for the last time on Thursday, ending 90 years and 4 generations of DeJager dairy farming. It’s been a sad week of lasts- the last time turning cows in and out of the tie stalls, the last milk pickup, the last time hearing the vacuum pump go through its cycles and the uncoordinated pulsing of the milkers, and the list goes on.

Though this is the end of one era, it’s also the beginning of a new one! We now begin our new full time adventure in the beef industry!🥩 With that, it has also been a week of firsts- our first time actually trying to get a calf to drink from her mom, our first time letting cows and calves free roam through the barn, and our first time treating our heifers to the best feed we have, which used to be for the milk cows. Change can be scary, but it can also be exciting. We are excited to begin this new journey that can provide for us, provide time for us to grow our other businesses, and provide us more time to relax and enjoy life a little more.

If you’d like to support us as we begin our new venture, we still have plenty of shares of beef 🥩 available, some as soon as September! And don’t forget about our maple syrup 🍁 either! Syrup can be bought and shipped and beef can be reserved easily, right from our website: bottlehillmapleandbeef.com! Want to stop in for a visit? Pumpkin season is right around the corner and we would love to see you at Matt's Hilltop Harvest! Lots of big changes are in store for this fall and we cannot wait to share them all with you! 🎃🌻

We would like to send a huge thank you to everyone who has stood behind us and supported us to this point, you are appreciated!

~Art & Matt

07/23/2026

Some nice custom work today in a field I have seen all my life with a view of the farm I’ve never seen before!

05/16/2026

Out with the old and in with the new! We had long outgrown our reverse osmosis machine and this year we positioned ourselves to be able to make the leap into something larger! This new-to-us machine is over double the capacity of our old machine, and has the capability of building onto it and doubling the size of it as it sits now! There is still lots of work to be done this summer to get it permanently hooked up, but it will be able to serve us well for years to come!