In case we hadn’t learned it beforehand, the past year taught us the hard way that we should never take anything for granted. While the tragedy of losing Jen’s dad, Rod Croft, prematurely last December has been balanced out somewhat by watching our now adult sons truly start to spread their wings in both life…
Welcome to the CCNF spring show season redux. Though we technically just competed in three different shows over April Fool’s weekend (a joke that writes itself on multiple levels), it honestly felt like a lot less work. It was certainly less stressful than what we are usually accustomed to this time of year. Look, a…
Happy November! At least as happy as one can be in a generally dark and brown month around here. You know, I’ve lived in Vermont for roughly 39 of my 51 years on this earth and though I am fully smitten by our little state, this region generally, and its many seasonal rhythms, there will…
The past year has been challenging at times here at Cas-Cad-Nac Farm. Though having come through it all, we are grateful to find ourselves changed for the better and now dealing from a position of strength and clarity. Last fall, after several months of running the farm shorthanded, we concluded the search for our new…
We are thrilled to announce that Cas-Cad-Nac Farm LLC was just named the 2022 Futurity Huacaya Large Breeder of the Year! In addition to that accolade for our breeding program overall, CCNF Bataclan (CCNF Daliance x CCNF Elixir) won the 2022 Futurity Light Herdsire of the Year and Irish Meadow’s Elite Max (Ivy’s Honeysuckle x…
That was fun. Well, parts of it anyways. Look, we make no bones about the fact that we were intent on returning to the Futurity Show in Kansas City, MO, for the first time since 2019 (aka, the before Covid times), specifically to pursue the Large Breeder of the Year honors, as we have done…
