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

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

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

It's Summer!

 The Heirloom tomato plot

The beans are outgrowing the row covers!

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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!

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