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Thanks for a great CSA season

Blog: Rivendel Farms   -   Tuesday October 13, 2009   -   By Ginger

Thank you to all for the '09 CSA season. What do you want in a CSA ????? How much, how offen, where, information, reciepies access to the farm ?????? We want to make your CSA the best possible for the '10 season. Give us your thoughts. What did you like...

The Clover Path Garden

Blog: The Clover Path Garden   -   Wednesday October 07, 2009   -   By Cynda

I am sure you are curious about orgainc and why grow organically. At first, back in the 80's, it was because I was chemically toxic because I had been a historical painter for all of my life and I was toxed out to the max. Lead levels over 25, mecury levels...

Why consider your local agricultural producer firs...

Blog: Lakeview Farm   -   Monday June 15, 2009   -   By Pastured Poultry, All Natural, Brown Extra Large to Jumbo Eggs

Lakeview Farm From Our Happy Hens to Your Happy Home.....Enjoy! Lakeview Farm is a family operation committed to providing all-natural eggs produced by healthy hens who are free to forage happily throughout the day and are then put up for the...

New Additions to the Farm

Blog: Boardtown Organics   -   Wednesday May 27, 2009   -   By Greg

     I was considering getting some baby chicks this fall and raise them through the winter so that they would begin laying eggs next spring.  Well, I ran across a very good deal on 86 Rhode Island Red baby chicks this past...

pastured hoophouse update

Blog: Foxhollow Poultry Farm   -   Saturday May 23, 2009   -   By Tai

Our pastured poultry hoop house is finished. Photos show the completed project with the electric poultry netting, and the chickens.  The chickens are about 3 weeks old and are really enjoying their new digs. The houses seem to be a good design,...

The Best Mother's Day Gift

Blog: Foxhollow Poultry Farm   -   Monday May 11, 2009   -   By Tai

The best mother's day gift is probably a relative thing dependant upon the particular mother in question. My best mother's day gift was made for me this year by my husband. It is a hoop house that we will use to pasture our poulet rouge chickens with the...

Free Range vs Pasture Pens

Blog: Harp Turkey Ranch   -   Wednesday May 06, 2009   -   By Wes

We get alot of emails on how we raise our poultry here on the farm, so decided it would be a good topic to discuss on the blog.  There is basically two different ways to raise your pastured poultry. We are going to discuss both ways.  We raise all...

Chickens on pasture.

Blog: Foxhollow Poultry Farm   -   Monday April 27, 2009   -   By Tai

This weekend we put up the portable poultry netting in the rain. It was a simple process that took a minimum amount of time and made our chickens really happy. They didn't even care if it was drizzling rain, they just roamed around all day and enjoyed their...

Animals have jobs too

Blog: Harp Turkey Ranch   -   Tuesday April 21, 2009   -   By Wes

Here at the ranch all the animals have jobs too. Their jobs are to do the back breaking work of clearing and tilling the land, at the same time fertilizing and spreading it too. The pigs have gotten more done then I first thought they would. They have to till...

Happy Easter

Blog: Harp Turkey Ranch   -   Sunday April 12, 2009   -   By Wes

Wanted to wish every body a happy Easter Holiday. We finished our first batch of Poulet Rouge Broilers last week. Everything went great and the chicken tasted great. We were able to fill every order that we pre sold, leaving only 2 chickens for us to enjoy...

Reality Check

Blog: Great Expectations   -   Wednesday April 08, 2009   -   By Candace

When I get the notion to do something, I like to read all I can about it.  I especially like knowing the potential downside of something.  This is because I can go off on a wild tangent without a second thought if I get too enthused and don't think...

Poulet Rouge Broiler Update - 3

Blog: Harp Turkey Ranch   -   Saturday April 04, 2009   -   By Wes

Would just like to share some photos that i had taken this afternoon of the poulet rouge broilers. They are going to be processed on Wed. April 8 th just a few days away. I'll report dressed weights.    The farm is buzzing now. I start at daylight...

Poulet Rouge Broiler Update - 2

Blog: Harp Turkey Ranch   -   Friday March 20, 2009   -   By Wes

The first batch is now 9 weeks old. I weighed four of them today as the suspense was killing me. 1@4lbs - 2@5lbs - 1@6lbs, Keep in mind that was on a cheapo scale, but I did calibrate it with a 10 lb weight before I weighed them so they should be pretty close...

Cruising the pastures in an RV

Blog: Greene Hills Farm   -   Tuesday March 17, 2009   -   By Stephanie

In a few days we'll be officially launching the "Chicken RV" with the arrival of 300 day-old cornish cross chickens. Jamie had the brilliant idea of rennovating an old travel trailer into the perfect mobile chicken unit. She ripped out the interior,...

A set of twins

Blog: Harp Turkey Ranch   -   Sunday March 15, 2009   -   By Wes

Our third doe had her new kids this morning. Went out for feedings and there they where. A beautiful set of twins. 1F - 1M. So that puts us at 8n ew goat kids this year. 2 more then expected. All in all we have 4F-4M kids. Now means we have 4 new does to add...

Another set of triplets !!!!

Blog: Harp Turkey Ranch   -   Thursday March 12, 2009   -   By Wes

Wow we just had a second set of triplets yesterday. 1F - 2M. What a start to a new season on the new property. We have now have what we expected to get from all three does, but we still got one more doe that is due any time now. Will it be another set of...

2009 Boer Goat Kids

Blog: Harp Turkey Ranch   -   Tuesday March 10, 2009   -   By Wes

Last night we had a doe give birth to 3 new kids !!! 2 girls and 1 boy. Been waiting for her to have her kids for the last 2 days, finally last night sometime she did. Woke up this morning went outside to do my chores and heard a very weird sound. Oh yeah that...

The chickens know what time it is and website.

Blog: Foxhollow Poultry Farm   -   Monday March 09, 2009   -   By Tai

We finally started working on our website. It was an easy process although it is not finished. The main problem I have is trying to get google to index it and list it. I have submitted the Url for their perusal and made sure that it was search engine...

Marans Chicks have Hatched

Blog: Harp Turkey Ranch   -   Wednesday March 04, 2009   -   By Wes

Just wanted to update you on the new Marans chicks that have hatched out in the last few weeks. These are a mix of a few different kinds of Marans. There is Black Copper,Cuckoo,Splash,and Blues in this brooder. I just took out 30 chicks that had hatched that...

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