The Raising Chickens class originally scheduled for this Saturday has been rescheduled to Saturday, 4/28 from 9-11am due to the snow prediction for this weekend. Please Contact Us if you’d like to register for the class on the 28th!
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Raising Chickens Class Rescheduled for Saturday, 4/28 at 9am!
Posted in Layers, tagged chickens, eggs, food, hens on April 4, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
April Farm Store Hours and How To Classes
Posted in Ducks, Farm Store, Layers, Rabbits, tagged chickens, eggs, farm store, hens, homestead, Rabbits on April 2, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
Farm Store Open This Saturday! April 7th 12-4pm Come shop for local, healthy offerings this Saturday! We have amazing pork and rabbit we’ve raised ourselves. Fresh eggs and duck eggs are in stock, too! As always we have a wonderful selection of natural soaps and bath products, candles, teas, and household goods. Address and directions are on our website […]
Raising Chickens Class: Saturday, April 7th 9am!
Posted in Chickens, tagged chicken, chickens, chicks, eggs on March 20, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
UPDATE: CLASS RESCHEDULED TO SATURDAY 4/28 DUE TO WEATHER. SPOTS STILL AVAILABLE. Are you starting a flock of laying hens this spring? Come learn tips and tricks to succeed! We’ll take you through the chicken rearing process, from chicks to adult laying hens. You’ll learn it all, from the basics of feeding and watering to […]
Visit This Saturday for EGGS!
Posted in Farm Store, Food & Beverage, Layers, tagged eggs, farm store on March 1, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
Farm Store Open This Saturday! March 3rd 12-4pm UPDATE (3/3/2018): Yes we are still open from 12-4pm despite the wind! This Saturday stock up on products to help your health: 50% off your first week’s order when you sign up for a weekly egg pickup! A weekly egg pickup is where we agree to have eggs available for you […]
October Newsletter
Posted in Farm Store, Layers, tagged chickens, eggs, farm store on October 3, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
Farm Store Open Saturday, October 7th, 12-4pm This Saturday come say hello and do some shopping! This month’s special is 20% off egg purchases of 5dz or more! Read all about our delicious, healthy eggs below. In the farm store we’ll be fully stocked with all of our amazing offerings: soaps and bath products, pork, rabbit meat, chicken and duck eggs, […]
Brewing Grain Available!
Posted in Chickens, Hogs, tagged american guinea hog, chickens, hens, hogs, meat, pork on September 21, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
Local farm friends: we have a brewery connection on Route 15 that needs a farmer to pickup its spent brewing grain. Must have a truck. This stuff is great livestock feed, and the brewer is easy to work with. If you’re interested, contact us.
Farm Tour This Weekend!
Posted in Farm Store, Food & Beverage, Layers, Meat, tagged chicks, eggs, food, pork, rabbit meat on May 16, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
Visit Us During the Loudoun Farm Tour This Weekend May 20-21, 10am-4pm We are looking forward to welcoming new and returning visitors during the Loudoun Spring Farm Tour May 20-21 from 10am-4pm. The farm store will be stocked as always with rabbit meat, pork, eggs from our free range chickens and ducks, organic bath and […]
Friday on the Farm 3/24/17: Hen Roosts, Pig Troublemakers
Posted in Friday on the Farm, Hogs, Layers, Meat, tagged eggs, hens, hogs, meat, pork on March 24, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
It’s spring! In typical springtime fashion, temperatures are about freezing this morning, but we should have a high of 64 today. As the weather warms up, our outdoor chore list is exploding. We have so many exciting things to do, and finally the weather is nice enough to do them! Here are the adventures from […]
Homemade Chicken Rollout Nesting Boxes
Posted in Layers, tagged chickens, eggs, homestead on December 27, 2016 | 1 Comment »
We’ve been trying some new setups for laying hens this year, and creating a new hen house meant making new nesting boxes. I used the opportunity to make improvements on prior designs, and here’s a summary of what resulted. Key Characteristics: 4ft long 4ft high 2 levels 15″ deep Roll-out style (tilted floor, covered egg […]
Weathering the Winter: Water
Posted in Chickens, Ducks, Goats, Hogs, Rabbits, tagged american guinea hog, chickens, ducks, goats, Rabbits, water, winter on December 19, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
Every winter we work hard to ensure the animals have access to water. With several animal pens, this can be a challenge. It can be frustrating to refill a water bowl with fresh water only to have it freeze in a matter of hours. Here are some tips we’ve learned along the way that may […]
Fall Farm Tour Coming Up!
Posted in Chickens, Ducks, Farm, Food & Beverage, Goats, Hogs, Rabbits on October 7, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
We are excited to be a part of Loudoun’s Fall Farm Tour this year! We have participated in the past two spring farm tours, and we think this year’s fall farm tour will be just as fun. As always, we’ll conduct tours of the farm so visitors can learn more about local agriculture. There will […]
Homestead Things I Love
Posted in Animals, Chickens, dogs, Ducks, Goats, Layers, Uncategorized, tagged chickens, dogs, ducks, eggs, food, goat milk, goats, raw milk on August 22, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been so busy recently, I haven’t had the time to post about all the amazing things we’re doing! The posts will come, I promise. Still, I wanted to spend a few minutes sharing some homestead things I love right now. Roll Out Nesting Boxes If I could go back in time, I would have […]
New Poultry Feeder Setup, Great for Chickens and Ducks!
Posted in Chickens, Ducks, Farm, Layers, Meat Chickens, Uncategorized, tagged chicken, chickens, ducks, eggs, feed, feeder on August 4, 2016 | 1 Comment »
With so many animals and only two farmers, we are constantly looking for ways to be more efficient with our farm tasks. Efficiencies in daily tasks such as feeding and watering pay huge dividends. A customer recently shared a poultry feeder design that we’ve implemented with great success! Here are a couple links (Link 1, […]
August Events at the Farm
Posted in Goats, Meat Chickens, Rabbits, tagged chicken, chickens, goat milk, goats, homestead, meat, rabbit meat, Rabbits on August 3, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
Goats 101 Class Saturday August 13th, 10am! This month we are again offering our popular Goats 101 class! We’ll focus on goats as pets or dairy, land clearing, and proper fencing. This class is family friendly, with opportunities to brush the goats, and get a squirt or two of milk out of the does, too! The class will […]
This Weekend’s Activities
Posted in Food & Beverage, Goats, Hogs, Layers, Rabbits, tagged chickens, ducks, eggs, food, goats, homestead, Rabbits on May 18, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
We have a lot lined up for the Loudoun Farm Tour this weekend! Our ducks will be out front to welcome you upon arrival. Ducklings will be showing off their antics in a pen. Then we have goat kids and piglets that are ready to be fed and petted. For the daring, the adult pigs and […]
Weathering the Winter: Chickens
Posted in Chickens, Layers, tagged chickens, eggs, winter on March 9, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s the latest (and final) installment in our Weathering the Winter series! Today we’re talking about how to winterize chickens. Here you can see our chicken yard in all its winter glory. Chicken wire on the sides and top of the enclosure provide predator protection. The chicken wire on the top provides protection from hawks, […]
Surviving the Snowstorm!
Posted in Animals, Ducks, Energy, Farm, Goats, Hogs, Layers, Rabbits, tagged american guinea hog, ducks, feeder, goats, homestead, snow, tractor, winter on January 27, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
Along with much of the East Coast, we just endured a record-breaking snowstorm. When you live on a homestead with livestock, weather is a big deal. The livestock need to be cared for every day, and that means getting to them, and making sure they can get around, no matter what the weather. As we […]
Look What Was Eating Our Eggs!
Posted in Animals, Layers, tagged chicken, coop, eggs, snake on May 30, 2015 | 1 Comment »
We had a visitor in our front yard chicken/duck coop this morning. The ducks and chickens were making a big ruckus outside the coop so we knew something was amiss. We ran over and found this “little” visitor… A large (over 5′ long) black snake was caught choking down one of our chicken eggs!
Hog & Chicken Symbiosis
Posted in Chickens, Hogs, tagged chicken, forage, hogs, symbiosis, woods on May 25, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
One of the benefits of our natural farming methods is that our animals benefit from livestock diversity. This is a perfect example, chickens wandering into the hog pen in the woods to forage and help pick pests off of the hogs!
International News Coverage!
Posted in Chickens, tagged chickens, eggs, factory farming, layers, news on May 15, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
We were recently featured in an international news piece about the avian flu that has been going on in parts of the US. Seeing the contrast in the factory farming operations in parts of this news segment with how we operate is a good reminder for us as to why we do all this work […]
Cornish Game Hen Chicks
Posted in Meat Chickens, tagged chicken, chickens, chicks, food on April 16, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
Spring is a busy time of year as we get started on our poultry meat production. This year we’re doing duck and chicken. We get the ducklings and chicks as just two day old chicks, and take them all the way through processing ourselves. In the video you’ll see our meat bird chicks, destined to […]
Friday on the Farm- 4/10/15
Posted in Ducks, Goats, Layers, Meat Chickens, tagged chickens, chicks, dogs, ducks, eggs, goats on April 9, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
Oh my goodness do we have some fun stuff going on at the homestead! All kinds of livestock fun has been going on, read about it below! Chicks! So Many Chicks! And Ducklings Too… Over the past few weeks we have had so many chicks! We’ve had laying hen chicks, meat chicken chicks, meat duck […]
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