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LOCAL FAMILY FARM OFFERING BEEF & PORK CUSTOM BUTCHERED FOR YOU
About Us
Middle Fork Farms is a generational family farm. Danny, Nick and Michael Kleaving along with their spouses and parents -Gilbert and Margie Kleaving- operate neighboring farms.
We are carrying on the farming tradition in a modern world with old fashioned values. We believe in hard work, fairness, and practice compassionately raising our animals on the land our relatives tilled. We raise beef and pork as well as the hay and grain crops.
Featured in National Magazine
"Danny and Gilbert have a 30-head brood cow heard, Simmental-Angus cross...."
"On his Indiana farm, Nick Kleaving raises hogs, in a 1,000 head feeder to finish operation...."
"On his Indiana farm, Nick Kleaving raises hogs, in a 1,000 head feeder to finish operation...."
Middle Fork Farms is part the "Kleaving Farms Hoosier Strong" headline article.
Left to Right - Michael, Nick, Danny, and Gilbert Kleaving.
"On his Indiana farm, Nick Kleaving raises hogs, in a 1,000 head feeder to finish operation...."
"On his Indiana farm, Nick Kleaving raises hogs, in a 1,000 head feeder to finish operation...."
"On his Indiana farm, Nick Kleaving raises hogs, in a 1,000 head feeder to finish operation...."
Our farm family was pleasantly surprised to be featured on the latest cover of National Farmers Magazine. The full story can be viewed here
The feature story talks about our umbrella company, Kleaving Farms. Middle Fork Farms LLC, is a division of Kleaving Farms. NFO - National Farmers Organization has been an integral part of our farm family since our grandpa joined decades ago.
The organization helps independent farmers, such as us, with marketing, sales, and much more. Independent farms such as Kleaving Farms and Middle Fork Farms utilize the help of NFO in an environment where small boutique operations benefit from a collaborative effort in competing with corporate factory style farms.
We produce"Beef and Pork for your Fork" with compassion and care. You can taste the difference.
Bye Barn - You've been a good one.
1800s-2022
The inside of an old barn is often more intriguing than the outside. The idea of constructing these barns being constructed without motorized machines but by a group of men lifting and steadying hand-hewn logs, which grew hundreds of years ago, is nearly unimaginable today.
They often joined the large beams with nothing more than a mortise and tenon joint - inserting one shaft into the other beam and gravity holding it in place.
Did you know:
•There is a historic barn tax deduction for barns built before the 1950s with mortise and tenon construction Indiana Heritage Barn Deduction
•There is a Heritage Barn Registry in Indiana
•There is an organization that hosts historic barn tours each year
•There are grants available to help preserve your historic barn
Check out Indiana Barn Foundation on Facebook or their website www.indianabarns.org for more information on all of the above.
The Indiana bicentennial barns website showcases the top 10 barns in Indiana and historic barn registry. www.200indianabarns.com
It's history that is worth preserving.
Unfortunately flood plain map changes placed our barn in a sad situation and we had to say goodbye.