Friday, November 23, 2012

Egg Prices

We will be increasing our egg prices to $4 per dozen beginning 12/1/12.  We have been at $3.50 for a number of years with the feed price going up steadily throughout that time.  So, at this point it's either raise the price a bit or stop doing it.  Our new batch of laying chickens we bought last summer are finally beginning to lay much better.  As a result of that we have lifted the maximum 2 dozen purchase.

We hope your Thanksgiving holiday is the best!

Vicky and Steve

Saturday, November 3, 2012

It's a wrap


We have pretty much wrapped up the year on the farm. All the fields have been tilled and our cover crop, winter rye, has been planted. Winter rye will germinate down to 34 degrees, will help with soil erosion and is nice organic matter to be tilled back into the soil next spring. We have taken out our strawberry patch and planted 500 new strawberry plants in a new location. they will be ready for picking next spring. We have replaced 40 blueberry plants, built and planted another large asparagus bed and cut back the current asparagus plants to get ready for winter.

We are down to two beehives and have prepped them for winter. The chicken is all sold out and we don't have the indoor facilities to grow any more during the cold weather. The egg layers are doing a bit better. Our egg supply has been holding pretty steady and eggs are available here everyday. We still are doing a two dozen maximum.
Vicky and I want to thank all of you for supporting us this season. It was a difficult year for us both as I toughed it out on the farm while she was immersed in the accelerated nursing program at Harford. The good news is she is now a Registered Nurse, the bad news is I don't ever want to see the farm again! Just kidding..about the farm part.

We're not sure what next year will bring for the farm, but you guys will be the first to know.

Have a wonderful holiday season and keep buying local!

Thanks again,


Vicky and Steve

Friday, October 19, 2012

This Weekend


Things are winding down on the farm, but we do have a few organically grown veggies available this weekend and of course our eggs. We're set up for self serve Saturday and Sunday 9a-6p for the veggies and eggs. The eggs are available all week,as well, on a self serve basis. This weekend we have:

Cabbage
Cauliflower
Turnips
Green Beans

Have a nice weekend,

Vicky and Steve

Friday, October 12, 2012

This Weekend



This weekend we will be open with self serve items as we work to get our strawberries and garlic in for next year. Available Saturday and Sunday 9a-dark:

Green cabbage, many of the heads weigh nearly 5 pounds $3 per head
Spinach, $3 per bag
Turnips, $2 per pint
Eggs $3.50 per dozen
Green Beans $3.50 per quart, the fall beans are beautiful!!
Romaine Lettuce $3 per bag
Sweet peppers $2 per quart

Have a great weekend!

GO ORIOLES!!!

Vicky and Steve

Sunday, September 30, 2012

This week


We will be totally closed to customers this week and will reopen Saturday and Sunday 9am until dark both days with eggs, green cabbage, Chinese cabbage, salad mix, spinach, peppers and chicken legs at $2.25 per pound.

Have a nice week.

Vicky and Steve

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Farm Update


 The new Asparagus bed
 These are the Asparagus Crowns, basically asparagus roots that you plant (weird looking)
One of the new laying chickens seemed to like one of the peach trees!


We will be closed, with the exception of self serve eggs, until more of the Fall crops come in. Feel free to call ahead to see if eggs are available 410-215-6776. Remember there is a limit of two dozen per customer.

Vicky and Steve

Monday, September 10, 2012

This Weekend


Beginning this week and running through the Fall season we will be open 9a-dark Saturday and Sunday only. Thank you to all of you that made this summer a busy and successful one!

This weekend we will have:

Roma and San Marzano plum tomatoes
Arugula
A nice mild salad mix
Young red Russian kale
Green peppers
Jimmy Nardello sweet peppers
Sweet potatoes
Fresh Basil, Rosemary, Tarragon, Oregano, Lemon Thyme, French Thyme
We have a small amount of chicken left
Eggs

Vicky and Steve

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Fresh chicken


This weekend will be our final fresh chicken weekend until next spring. The chicken will be available from Thursday at 3 (a little later than normal) until Sunday evening, when what's left goes in the freezer.

We still have tomatoes, although I wouldn't wait to much longer to get them, as they are fading fast in the field. Our fall crops are coming along well. We should have some lettuces soon and sweet potatoes in two weeks.
We will be open our normal hours this week 9a until dark and then beginning next week we will only be open Friday, Saturday and Sunday 9a until dark. If you need something during the week please don't be afraid to call us at 410-215-6776.

We have made some decisions about our egg production, which has been a problem all summer, that we will discuss in another posting

We have built a new large bed for more asparagus that will be planted this fall. We have ordered 500 strawberry plants we will plant this fall, 40 new blueberry bushes to replace those that have petered out in the blueberry field and have 40 pounds of garlic that we will be separating the cloves to plant this October. The forty pounds should yield about 2000 bulbs of garlic next June!

One other thing....can any of you that juice, tell me what juicer would juice grapes with seeds. We just bought a Breville juicer to primarily juice our grapes and find out it's not recommended to juice grapes with seeds and many of ours have seeds. Any help would be appreciated.

As always, we thank you for choosing us as your farmer.

Hope you all had a nice holiday weekend!

Vicky and Steve

Monday, August 27, 2012

Tomato Deal


We had a fairly slow weekend and have a lot of tomatoes available. So taking a page out of our economics book having to do with supply and demand......

This week through Sunday all tomatoes will be .99 cents a pound. We still have most varieties. If you want a large quantity, a 30 pound crate of tomatoes is $28.

We will not be getting the Miller Farm corn this weekend, but will have some of our own on hand.

The next fresh chicken weekend will be 9/6-9/9 and will be the last for this year.

Have a great Labor Day weekend.

Vicky and Steve

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

This week on the Farm and half priced chicken


We are having a half price sale on wings and drumsticks now through the weekend 8/26.  Wings and legs will be $2.25 per pound!!

We are really in that transitional period of the summer produce winding down and the fall produce just starting to grow. All the late season plantings are doing nicely in the cooler weather we've been having. We will keep you posted on how things are coming. We do have chicken in the freezer and our next fresh chicken weekend will be 9/6-9/9. Our egg production is still not good and we are deciding what steps to take to remedy that situation.

We have plenty of tomatoes and wanted to remind anyone that is interested in canning or making sauce that we sell a crate (30 pounds) for $28. We had a family purchase 180 pounds last week, here's a picture of the results of that purchase


















This week we have:

Tomatoes
Onions
Green Beans
Herbs
Kabocha (winter squash like butternut)
Grapes (a limited amount of a variety some seedless and some not)
Our corn(picked fresh upon your arrival)

Vicky and Steve

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

This week on the farm


All the Fall plantings are in! Last night with the storms going through the area, we sat with the lap top watching the radar in hopes we wouldn't get a downpour that would wash away everything we had just planted. Things look fine this morning. The last couple of weeks have been very busy (thank you!) and we have sold out of many things. We are out of boneless breasts and thighs, but still have wings, legs and whole chicken available. We still have a few beets, onions and potatoes. We still have plenty of tomatoes, although the heirlooms have really slowed down. We are selling our own organically grown corn now. There is a limited amount. We will pick it on request, so if you come for some, plan on a ten minute picking time. We have dug all the sweet potatoes and they look beautiful. We will let them cure for a couple of weeks to build up the sugar content. We also have a few of our grapes that are ripe and delicious, more will ripen through the next couple of weeks. We planted a variety, some seedless table grapes, some juice grapes with seeds. The bean beetles have devoured the green beans, we have more coming in a few weeks. We will have plenty of corn this weekend, as usual, from the Miller Farm.

Available this week:

Tomatoes
Onions
Corn
Beets
Potatoes
Kabocha Squash (winter squash)
Basil, Rosemary, French Thyme, Lemon Thyme, Oregano, Tarragon

We will be closing at 5p on Thursday. Vicky has her pinning ceremony! She has made it through nursing school!!! She worked her, you know what, off and did incredibly well. I'm really proud of her.

Steve

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

This week on the farm


This will be a fresh chicken weekend at the farm. Beginning Thursday at noon until Sunday sundown, we will have our fresh chicken in the cooler. Whole, cut up whole, boneless breasts, thighs, legs, wings will be available. Of course Sunday what isn't sold will go into the freezer. Since we sold out of thighs and boneless breasts the last time, we have gotten a few more this time.

We will have corn this weekend from Friday at 1 through Sunday. Our own organic corn should be ready in a couple of weeks. Currently the corn is the only thing we have for sale that we don't grow ourselves here on the farm.

Available this week:

Tomatoes
Green Beans
Herbs
Potatoes
Sweet Potatoes
Onions
Green peppers
Sweet frying peppers (jimmy nardellos)
Beets
Carrots(what we have left are small)
Honey Orange Honeydews

Here's what we will be planting for fall crops in the next week or so:

Potatoes
A variety of lettuces
Spinach
Kale
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Cabbage
Arugula
Turnip
Beets
Carrots
Swiss Chard
Chinese cabbage
Radish

We hope to see you this week or weekend!

Vicky and Steve

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Farm Update


As many of you know, we didn't plant a huge amount of produce this year. We really wanted to see how operating the farm with just road customers and customers from our mailing list would work before jumping in with both feet and deciding what the future would hold, the CSA or what we're experimenting with this year. We will make that decision at the end of the season. Any comments from any of you would be appreciated and could certainly have an effect on which direction we go.

We may not have planted our usual amount and variety of things this year, but as far as the tomatoes we did. The tomatoes are beginning to come in nicely and we offer all of them for $1.49 per pound. The heirloom varieties we have are: Cherokee Purple, Paul Robeson, Brandywine, Mortgage Lifter, Caspian Pink, Amish Paste and I'm sure I'm forgetting a couple. The more traditional tomatoes we have are: Big Beef, Better Boy, Early Girl, Celebrity, Roma, San Marzano.

We will have corn this weekend from the Miller Farm in White Hall, Friday afternoon through Sunday.

A few blueberries remain to pick, but this will probably be the last week.

Available this week:

Tomatoes
Carrots
Potatoes
Onions
Cantaloupe
Beets
Green Beans
Turnips
Blueberries

Plenty of our chicken in the freezer and next week we will have fresh again.

Vicky and Steve

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Farm Update


The tomatoes are ripening a little at a time and many folks are trying an heirloom tomato for the first time. We have had Cherokee purples and a few Brandywines and mortgage lifters. They aren't the beautiful perfect tomato that has been picked green and gassed to ripen in transit to your grocery store and tastes like nothing. They have the most incredible fresh tomato taste you can find. We are getting a few more each day.

If you're still in the blueberry picking mood, the last couple rows of bushes have a lot of berries on them and they seem a little less tart than they were a week ago. Don't waste time getting over here though, this should be it for blueberries.

Now available

Blueberries
Tomatoes
Green Beans
Zucchini
Potatoes
Turnip
Carrots
Beets
Green Peppers
Jimmy Nardello sweet frying peppers
Onions

Believe it or not, we will begin to plant crops for fall in the next couple of weeks. Things like lettuces, spinach, radish, kale, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, Chinese cabbage, potatoes, etc.

We should have some cantaloupes and honeydews soon.

Don't forget we will have corn from Friday afternoon through Sunday this weekend.

Vicky and Steve

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Farm Update and Corn this Weekend


What is with the tomatoes???? It seems like every one we talk to is in the same boat we are, the tomatoes just won't ripen. My best educated guess is that it's just been to many unending days of extreme heat. Yes, tomatoes love the hot weather, but 95-100 degrees day after day may be too much. The plants are loaded with beautiful green tomatoes, but the ripe ones are very slow to come.

We will have corn Friday afternoon through Sunday (or until it's all gone). The delicious silver king white sweet corn comes from our friends at Maple Border Farm in While Hall.

We have a freezer full of our chicken, whole, whole cut up, legs and wings, but have sold out of breasts and thighs. The next date for fresh chicken will be 8/9 and we'll have another bunch of breasts and thighs then.

Also available now at the farm:

Green Beans
Summer Squash
Zucchini
Turnips
Beets
Herbs
Potatoes (numerous varieties)
Onions
Green Peppers
Tomatoes ( limited supply)

See you soon!

Vicky and Steve

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Fresh Chicken and Farm Update


We will have our latest batch of fresh chicken beginning Thursday at noon and running through Sunday evening. Whole, whole cut up, boneless breasts, wings, thighs, legs, along with some organ meat as well. We always have chicken available, but these are the times you can get it fresh not frozen.

There has been some blueberry picking the last few days as the late producing bushes are slowly ripening. If you want to come and pick, call first and I'll take a look for you before you come.

The green beans have arrived and are beautiful. We are sold out at the moment, but will pick Friday.

We are getting a few more tomatoes each day and hope to have a few to sell this weekend, that is if we can stop eating them!

We have pulled some of our carrots and they are now available and the potatoes, oh the potatoes, probably the best crop of potatoes in 5 years! Our large sweet onions are beginning to find their way into the crates along with green peppers.

So available now:

Carrots
Potatoes (Yukon Gold, Prairie Blush, Kennebec, Buttes, for baking, and Red Norlands)
Green Beans
Beets
Summer Squash
Garlic
Onions
Cucumbers
Herbs
Blueberries (you pick)
Green Peppers
The first of the tomatoes hopefully this weekend.

Please call the farm if you have any questions 410-215-6776

Thanks!


Vicky and Steve

Friday, July 6, 2012

Farm Update


If there is a God please come and take some of these squash, zucchini and cucumbers off our hands. We even tried zucchini smoothies, just to use some up!

The late season blueberries are sure taking their time ripening, but it looks like there could be some picking this weekend. I was up there a few minutes ago and there's a decent amount with more ripening each day.

Vicky is on the warpath as it looks like, from initial reports from the front, that the rabbit army has attacked many of the early tomatoes. Just a bite or two out of many. I told her not to worry because once the tomatoes really start coming, not even the rabbits will be able to keep up.

Just a reminder that we will have another fresh chicken weekend beginning next Thursday afternoon 7/12. We keep the chicken fresh in the coolers until Sunday when it goes into the freezer.

Produce available now at the farm:

Prairie Blush Potatoes (yukon gold/red)
Garlic (we grow Music garlic)
Zucchini
Yellow Squash
Zephyr (yellow zucchini with a green bottom)
Spring Onions (getting larger and beautiful)
Cucumbers
Blueberries (you pick)
Beets
Herbs (basil, parsley, rosemary, tarragon, oregano)
Turnips
Arugula

Hope to see you Down on the Farm!


Vicky and Steve

Monday, July 2, 2012

Potatoes!!


Vicky mentioned she was making chicken marsala with Rousedale farm chicken breasts, of course, and wanted me to check on our potatoes out in the field as she wanted to make mashed potatoes. We've been suffering with store bought potatoes ever since our stash from last summer ran out. Let me tell you, there is a difference. Once you have fresh organic potatoes even the store bought organics just don't cut it. Well, the potato plants have been starting to die back a bit, which is a sure sign that the spuds in the ground are about ready, so with shovel in hand I headed up to check. The first plant I dug up was loaded with beautiful Prairie Blush potatoes. These are our personal favorite, a cross between a red and Yukon gold. These were developed at Wood Prairie Farm, an organic potato farm in Maine. When the Prairie Blush was first entered in the new potato category at a potato convention at the convention center in, believe it or not, Baltimore a few years ago, it won first place!! They are really good. Anyway, she was thrilled when I came back with a basket full of potatoes and I was thrilled eating them for dinner.

Available now:

Prairie Blush Potatoes
Beets (both "cylindra" shaped like a log and regular)
Zucchini
Yellow Squash
Cucumbers
Turnips
Garlic
Arugula

I think we may have blueberries again by the weekend, green beans in about a week, and tomatoes in a week to ten days.

Vicky and Steve

Friday, June 29, 2012

Farm Update


We have received 70 new laying hens! 20 are laying eggs already and the rest should begin around the end of July. We have created new digs for them that they seem to love.  This should help boost up our egg production. We may add a few more this summer, then we will be pretty well maxed out.





Our next batch of broiler chickens will be fresh in the cooler on July 12th. We are well stocked with chicken in the freezer and should be for a good while.


Organically grown produce now includes:

Garlic
Beets
Zucchini
Summer squash
Spring onions
Turnips
Spinach
Mild lettuce mix
Arugula
Cucumbers

The late season blueberries are not quite ready. The remainder of the mid season bushes are somewhat spotty, but there are some for picking.

Have a great weekend and have a nice 4th!!

Vicky and Steve

Monday, June 25, 2012

Blueberries Must Rest


There will be no blueberry picking this week after a busy weekend of picking. The bushes need to rest a week as we get ready for the late season bushes to ripen.

This week we have:

Spinach
Beets
Mild Salad Mix
Radishes
Spring onions ( and the onion bulbs are getting bigger)
Turnips
Cucumbers

We have plenty of chicken with the exception of thighs. Rousedale Farm scientists are working feverishly around the clock to develop a chicken with four thighs.

It's been great seeing a lot of new faces this year already and thanks to our regular customers for...well...being regular.

Vicky and Steve

Saturday, June 23, 2012

FARM WILL BE CLOSED SUNDAY AFTERNOON

The farm will be closed Sunday afternoon 6/24 from 1-6:30

At the Farm


The blueberry bushes are loaded with berries and should be for another few weeks. It looks like it will be a bit cooler this weekend, so come on over and pick and enjoy our delicious blueberries.

Vicky has been babying our 150 tomato plants and it looks like it's paying off. The many varieties of plants are beautiful and the early girl variety should be ready in a week to ten days. You'll see in the pictures that the plants all have a color coded system hanging on their cages. Apparently, according to the Tomato Queen, it's to help with watering schedules and such.

Along with blueberries we now have,
Spinach
Beets
Mild Salad Mix
Arugula
Turnips
Some Zucchini and Cucumbers
Radishes

And of course our chicken and eggs.




Vicky and Steve

Thursday, June 21, 2012

It's Summer!

 The Heirloom tomato plot
The beans are outgrowing the row covers!

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

This week at the Farm


This week we have:

PYO Blueberries $4 per quart $2 per pint
Mild Salad Mix $3 a bag
Spinach $3 a bag
Beets $4 a bunch
Spring Onions $1.50 a bunch
Radishes $1.50 a bunch
Zucchini $3.50 a quart
Chicken

Have a great week,

Vicky and Steve

Friday, June 15, 2012

This Weekend at the Farm


It's a fresh chicken weekend with the new batch of our chicken in the cooler until Sunday. These chickens average around 3.5 pounds so the parts are a bit smaller than the first group as well. Don't forget wings this weekend are marked down to $3.29 per pound from $4.50.

We are transitioning to the next type of blueberries for picking. These are the Blue Crops and we think these are a bit sweeter than the Dukes that we have been picking. So picking available 9a until dark each day.

We just cut a nice bunch of spinach that is very tender and tasty.

Also if you come by the farm in the next few days the kids can visit the little baby chicks that are in the barn. They're about 3 inches long at the moment.

This weekend:

Pick your own blueberries $4 per quart $2 per pint. A quart is about 1.6 pounds
Beets $4 a bunch
Radishes $1.50 a bunch
Spinach $3 a bag
Mild Salad Mix $3 a bag
Spring Onions $1.50 a bunch

All our produce is organically grown.

Hope to see you at the Farm!!

Vicky and Steve

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Double Rainbow Across the Farm

Friday June 8th it was a double rainbow over Rousedale.  So vivid, so intense!

This week at the Farm


Just got back from taking this group of chickens to their "appointment". We will have a fresh chicken weekend this weekend. The 2.5-4.5 pound whole chickens and boneless breasts, split breasts, thighs, wings and drumsticks along with the organ meat will be fresh in the cooler Thursday afternoon through Sunday before going into the freezer. 

We also will be having a wing special this weekend as well. This weekend the price of wings will be dropped from $4.50 to 3.29 per pound.

A lot of folks have been to the farm to pick blueberries. The blueberry picking continues seven days a week 9am til dark. $4 per quart, that's over a pound and a half of berries, and $2 per pint.

Also this week and weekend:

Beets $4 per bunch
Arugula $3 per bag
Radishes $1.50 per bunch
Spring Onions $1.50 per bunch
Asparagus (it's still coming!) $5 per pound

Vicky and Steve

Saturday, June 9, 2012

This weekend at the Farm


This weekend looks to be beautiful, why not bring the kids or just yourself and spend a little time picking blueberries at the farm? Blueberries are just $2 a pint and $4 a quart. A quart is more than a pound and half of berries. The berries are pick your own. There are none pre picked.
We are also bumping up our next fresh chicken weekend to next weekend. The new batch will be fresh and in the cooler from Thursday 6/14 through Sunday 6/17. These will be smaller at 2.5 to 4 pounds for a whole bird. We have whole, along with boneless breasts, bone in split breasts, thighs, legs, wings and of course the organ meat as well.

This weekend:

Blueberries
Beets $4 per bunch
Radishes $1.50 per bunch
Spring onions $1.50 per bunch
Arugula $3 per bag
The last of the asparagus $5 per pound

Our garlic will be pulled this weekend and will be hung in the barn to begin the drying period and should be available in three weeks or so.
Also our mild salad mix has been pretty popular so we will be planting more of that next week.
We appreciate everyone who's stopped by and have a nice weekend!

Vicky and Steve

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Blueberries!!


Vicky, apparently strolled through the blueberry area today and announced that the early blueberries were ready to pick. I asked her how she new and she stuck out her tongue which was extremely blue. We have three types and they ripen early, midseason and late. The early bushes( called Dukes) are ready to pick. There nice size and taste great. They are exclusively pick you own now, but we should have some already picked this weekend. The organic blueberries are:

$4 for pick your own quart
$2 for pick your own pint
$8 for already picked quart
$4 for already picked pint

Steve

This week at the Farm


After a busy weekend of folks stopping in for our fresh chicken, we have moved the rest of the chicken to the freezer. We still have a good stock of everything except thighs, hearts and gizzards. Joe Hamel, of Fat Daddy Joe's BBQ a professional BBQ competitor, wiped us out of thighs early for his competition in a couple of weeks in Frederick. He wanted big thighs and that's what he got! As I have mentioned this batch of birds got a little bigger tAhan normal and we have dropped the price .50 a pound to $3.49 per pound for any whole bird above 5 pounds. The next group will be fresh and in the cooler on the weekend of June 22
.
We have ordered 50 more laying hens (pullets) to add to our egg production. We will have them by the end of the month.

This week along with the chicken and of course our eggs we have organic:

Beets $4 a bunch
Spring Onions $1.50 a bunch
Arugula $3 per bag
Radishes $1.50 a bunch
Spicy Salad Mix $3 per bag
Asparagus $5 per pound

Have a nice week!

Vicky and Steve

Monday, June 4, 2012

Finger Lickin Good

Yvette was one of many that stopped by the farm this weekend to pick up a couple of our fresh chickens before they went into the freezer.  She sent us this picture the next day which prompted us to dash to the cooler ourselves and try to duplicate the picture!

Friday, June 1, 2012

This weekend


This weekend we have our fresh chicken available. The whole chicken and cut up parts (thighs, wings, drumsticks, boneless breasts, livers, hearts, gizzards, necks and backs) are in the cooler this weekend and will go in the freezer Sunday night. Our next fresh chicken weekend will be June 22.

Produce this weekend:

Radishes (the best we have ever had!)
Arugula
Spring onions/scallions
Asparagus
Turnip Greens
Beet Greens
Mild Salad Mix
Spicy Salad Mix

It won't be long before the earliest of the our blueberry varieties are ready for picking!!

Have a nice weekend.

Vicky and Steve

Sunday, May 27, 2012

This Week at the arm


This week we will have organic:

Spring onions $3 per bunch
Arugula $4 half pound
Turnip Greens $2 half pound
Asparagus $5 per pound (limited supply)
Chickens arrive Thursday.

Vicky and Steve

Monday, May 21, 2012


Hi Everyone,

A couple of new items this week. We have Garlic Scapes for $2 a bag and Tender Baby Beet Greens at $2 a bunch. The scapes can be used in any recipe that you would like a mild garlic flavor. They're worth the price just to look at them, there a bit strange. It's a an extra shoot that hardneck garlic sends out (we grow music garlic) that has a little seed pod. To have it tender, you harvest before it gets to big and then you can cut it up and sautee or combine with other ingredients. The beet greens are very nutritious and quite tender when smaller. You can use these in salads or as a sautee stand alone green or in dishes.
The asparagus is slowing done a little, but still available and the strawberries are still coming. Asparagus $5 per pound, Strawberries $5 a quart picked or $4.50 to pick your own.
Every thing is grown organically. No sprays, no pesticides etc...

Thanks,

Vicky and Steve

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Strawberries

We have already picked organic strawberries available for $5 per level quart.  Also pick your own available for $4.50 per quart/pound

Chicken


Hi Everyone,

Our chicken will be available beginning May 31. For those who would like fresh rather than frozen, chickens will be kept in our coolers through the weekend before heading to the freezer. Our chicken is free range, all natural chicken that usually range in size from 2.5 to 5 pounds. The chickens get a supplemental feed that is all natural, all vegetarian with no antibiotics, no arsenic and no hormones. Our chickens, as chicks, receive no vaccinations and are grown right here on the farm. They cannot be classified as organic, however, because the feed they have is not made with organically grown grain. We have many satisfied customers and consume mass quantities ourselves. The whole chickens and parts are packaged just like your grocery store chicken and processed at a local USDA inspected processor in Elkton.
Our per pound prices this year are:

Whole 3.99
Whole cut up 4.50
Legs, thighs, wings 4.50
Bone in split breasts 5.35
Boneless Breasts 6.95
Livers 3.00
Soup Stock-backs, necks, hearts, gizzards and feet 1.50

We will have all of these on hand at the farm, but if you would like to special order, and I know that some already have, you can email or call. The parts are usually packed four to a package, but different amounts per package can be special ordered any way you would like.

We still have organic strawberries and asparagus at $5 per pound.

Thanks and we hope you're having a nice Spring.

Vicky and Steve

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Spring 2012

Hi Everyone,

I guess most of you know by now, we are not offering our CSA program this year. We are scaling back a bit this year until we can get Vicky through nursing school, but we will have some produce offerings along with our eggs and chicken. I will keep you posted here or if you would like to get on our email list, just send us an email and we can send you announcements as things become available.

The only thing ready at the moment is chives. I wouldn't even mention this, but I made mashed potatoes the other night with sour cream and fresh chives and wow were they good! A nice size bunch is $2.

Also we will be getting our first batch of broiler chicks this week. They will be ready for the grill, freezer, etc. the last week of May. Email us for prices and to pre order. We will have chicken through the year.

Asparagus and Strawberries aren't far off!

Steve and Vicky