Tastes From Our Country Home
Eggs
Our birds live on pasture in mobile fencing and housing. They spend their days doing what chickens do best – scratching around and snapping up any small critters they can find. As a result, our hens lay eggs that are nutrient dense with rich, golden yolks.
Seasonal Roadside Stand
When the weather is fair our roadside stand is open. Asparagus and rhubarb are the first produce of the year and appear in June. As the summer unfolds the produce on the stand progresses through greens, peas, garlic, summer squash, tomatoes, onions, carrots, and winter squash, among other items.
We also have available some items that won’t do well sitting by the roadside all day, buy that we can supply you with, if desired. These include herbs (chives, sage, basil, parsley, hyssop, and dill), as well as cut flowers, and raspberries.
Soup Birds
Since we grow our flock naturally, we have a surplus of roosters on hand. We also have some older hens of dual purpose breeds that will make a great chicken stock. If you’ve a taste for rooster meat or wish to make your own chicken stock, let us know.
Meat Chickens
During the summer we raise slow-growing meat birds out on pasture in mobile housing. The birds are also given organic grain from Halma Organics. After processing, the birds range from 4.5 – 6.5 pounds each and are available as whole chickens.
Share of Beef (1/8,1/4, 1/2)
Our animals are born and raised on our pasture and are grass-fed and grass-finished. We will have available Holstein-Angus cross or Lynch Lineback, which are both dual-purpose breeds with A2-A2 genetics.
Permaculture Orchard
In 2017 we planted several trees each of apples, cherries, pears, and peaches, as well as raspberries, sea buckthorns, haskaps, currants, and elderberries. Already we have enjoyed raspberries, apples, pears, currants and a few plums and peaches. We’ve since added cherries, aronia berries, and hardy kiwis. This will be limited availability, but we will post whatever grows well through-out the seasons.
Honey
Beekeeping is something we are starting to get into. Having an orchard and multiple vegetable and flower gardens, bees are appreciated for their pollination services. Any honey we could get would from them is an added bonus!