CSA: Thimbleberry Farm & Fleece

Thimbleberry Farm & Fleece is pleased to announce the launch of our Pasture Raised Poultry Community Supported Agriculture Program, providing sustainable, nutritious, humanely-raised chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and game birds for our members at preferred pricing plans.

Currently, we raise both commercial (hybrids or artificially inseminated ) and Heritage (natural breeding, antique) breeds, offering Poultry shares combining the best of both types or only Heritage breeds. Although we raise both varieties in a natural, pastured environment, producing the most robust flavor, maximum nutrition, and incredible meat texture, we encourage our members to support the heritage breeds for a true culinary delight and to increase community awareness of sustainable farming practices in our Northern Michigan climate, as done in generations past.

So...How does this all work?

Think of us as your Personal Farmers!!!! We are responsible for the brooding of the chicks, the daily hauling of feed and water to the day range shelters, the midnight predator patrols, etc. Everything it takes to put a nutritious, flavor packed bird on your supper table!!!

Poultry Share Members, by purchasing ahead and in monthly installments, provide the capital necessary to purchase the day old chicks, the feed and other supplies. In exchange, members receive a preferred CSA discount, first attention and choice of harvested poultry, and are encouraged to visit the farm and see for themselves how the very food they put on the dinner table is grown.

The goal of the Thimbleberry Farm’s Poultry shares is not only to provide our members with delicious, natural locally-raised poultry, but also to work toward a wholly sustainable farming practice of breeding and maintaining critically endangered Heritage Breed Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, and Geese. Additional benefits of our goal will reduce the carbon foot-print of air-lifting day old poultry from the hatchery to our farm and help to re-establish the small family diverse products farm-to-table link that was pushed nearly to extinction in the 20th century’s rush to one product manufacturing style corporation farms.