Duran's Farm Fresh Products

We are pleased to see all the interest you have in our little farm by the number of visitors to this site and our blog. 

We will have cabbage, pumpkins, winter squash, carrots, peppers available until they are all gone or sold. And corn stalks for those of you who have asked for them.  A bundle is only $1 for about 12 or so stalks.

Our 60 new hens arrived on Thursday as day old chicks, so that we can keep up with your demand for the brown eggs. They will be ready to lay in 6 months--March 2010. That should bring our total flock up to about 140 or so.  Blaine has picked up 2 calves so far from Pot O Gold dairy of the 12 we are getting to feed out for you and your freezers.  We will offer them the same as our pigs.  You can pay by the month while we raise them for you, or pay in full at any time.  Delivery to 1 of the local butchers is always FREE.  Our 2 litters of pigs born last month will be ready to tag this weekend.  We've already had 1 customer wanting to buy all of them, but since I know that several of you have asked for one, we had to turn him down.  He wanted all or none.  These pigs should be ready for your freezers about Feb/Mar 2010.  You will need to contact us asap if you want one.  We will be tagging and setting up accounts on a first come, first serve basis.  When they are all tagged, we will not have anymore due to farrow until spring and those, most likely, will be sold to local 4H youth for next fall's fairs.  Pigs take about 3 months, 3 weeks and 3 days to farrow once they are bred.  So more will always be available.

REMEMBER, when we close up the stand for the winter months, we will STILL HAVE BROWN EGGS AND POT O GOLD MILK AVAILABLE ALL YEAR ROUND. It will be available here at the house, and we try out best to accomodate your's and our busy work schedules. ( we both have full time outside jobs). Contact us anytime to purchase, order or if you just have questions.

We have contacted a builder and are working with Gannon's small business development center to open our full time store hopefully in the spring.  We will have the same quality items you buy now: eggs, milk, seasonal produce and garden plants but we will be adding bulk food items, lunchmeats and cheeses, and freezer cuts of beef and pork rather than having to purchase an entire animal. It will be processed through Walter's meats who is USDA inspected.

We expect to be busy enough to repay the loans needed to build the building and cover the increased insurance costs as well as try to do some adverstising.  We have seen our customers grow in numbers by just word of mouth, so if we add the formal advertising, we should be able to keep busy enough to be successful.

We always like to hear from you, so feel free to contact us anytime!

Blaine & Karen

Hello All!

Just an 'almost' end of season update. The sweet corn is done as of Friday, and mostly what is left in the garden is : carrots, green and hot peppers, cauliflower, onions, and some eggplant.  I have a several small pots of fresh herbs available: cilantro, parsley, thyme, sage. 

Since I don't  need to work as many hours in the garden, I am able to catch up on some "requested" baking.  Seems the breads and baked goods I offered you last year were a hit and you'd like more! I baked on Monday, so there are HUGE brownies, Fresh breads, and our famous WAGAON WHEELS (cin rolls) in the stand for your pleasure.

We will have butternut squash available when it's ready, hoping to find the blue hubbard squash that someone requested we grow, and maybe a few pumpkins.  (we don't usually sell alot of pumpkins, and we have a friend/neighbor who has plenty, so we don't plant or grow very many).

We usually keep the roadside stand open until about Halloween time, then it's time to close it up for the year.

PLEASE NOTE : WE WILL STILL HAVE FRESH BROWN EGGS AND MILK FROM POT O GOLD DAIRY AVAILABLE ALL YEAR!!! We will have them available here at the house in a small refrigerator on the porch for your convenience.

Pigs/Pork update: We had a total of 12 pigs born in the 2 litters on 8/23 and 8/25.  About 1/2 are spoken for already. We are NOT accepting any money for them until Oct 1st when they are 6 weeks old.  If you are interested in having us raise one for your freezer, contact us asap as they will not last long. Most people will come out Sept 27th or Oct 4th to tag their animal. They will be first come, first serve.  We know you will not be disappointed with the quality and the taste!

Thanks for finding us and as always, we appreciate your support, your comments and suggestions!

Blaine & Karen