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Green Fence Farm Offering Summer Tours and Seminars!
Want to see our chicken mobile home park? Interested in what a baby quail looks like (really small)? Think you might want to try to make a living selling wool and vegetables and want to see how we do it (we don't, but I'm sure you could. We aren't terribly bright). Green Fence Farm is offering opportunities for individuals, families or groups to tour the farm and see how it is we are still in business. We offer everything from free, informal walkabouts on Saturday afternoons (starts in May) to custom designed group or youth programs to a full day "How not to farm" boot camp. Check here for more details.
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All Day, On-Farm Experience with Pastured Poultry
Ideal for the hobby farm or small scale business
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Ideal for the hobby farm or small scale business
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To all our friends and customers: We now have a blog at http://greenfencefarm.blogspot.com/. This is for YOU, so you can share your ideas, or get some, on how to use our – and now your – produce, eggs, bread, and meat. If you have a recipe you want me to post, email it to me – with a picture, if possible – and I’ll put it on the blog as its very own “post,” (look at me, throwing the lingo around). We’ll also have information on our livestock, any cute baby animals running around, or exciting events, like when Viv fell in the duck pond or Nick got dragged through the mud by a huge ewe (let’s hope I learn to upload video).
Thanks to Austin, our social networking guru, you can now join the Green Fence Farm email list simply by clicking on the button below (really).
Eggs: Our chickens are raised on pasture, moved weekly to new grass in their mobile chicken hut (they look like gypsy wagons). As a result, they produce an egg that is lower in fat, higher in Omega-3s, higher in vitamins (particularly D), and oh so much tastier than any egg that, regardless of claims of "organic" or "cage-free," you can buy in any store. We also offer duck and quail eggs, when we are not incubating them to make duck and quail meat (life is all about choices).
Vegetables: We farm over an acre of land with everything from asparagus to tomatoes. We try to grow primarily heritage vegetables from local seed. We also buy from local produce markets and farmers who practice the same sort of farming. Our vegetables are available through a CSA that delivers to two locations in Washington DC, on our farm, and at fine restaurants in Washington DC, Staunton, and Charlottesville, VA.
In Staunton, VA:
Staunton Grocery
Newtown Bakery
Darjeeling Café
Mockingbird
In Washington, DC:
Green Fence Farm CSA and Buying Club
P&C Market
Belga Café
Staunton Grocery
Newtown Bakery
Darjeeling Café
Mockingbird
In Washington, DC:
Green Fence Farm CSA and Buying Club
P&C Market
Belga Café
For Sale:
Cashmere Goats
Cashmere Goats
6 months and up. Breeding group available. Very healthy, great for fiber/meat sales. Super brush eaters: they love poison ivy, cedar trees, wild roses and vines. Friendly and compatible with other farm animals.
2010 Icelandic
Sheep Sales
Sheep Sales
Who We Are
Green Fence Farm is one DC couple's midlife crisis disguised as a multi-product sustainable farm in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. We believe in food that is grown in the same time zone in which it is eaten and in responsible carnivore behavior, i.e. eating meat that itself eats mostly what it is supposed to (grass), lives where it is supposed to (outside), and doesn't contain that which it isn't supposed to (hormones, antibiotics, arsenic - you name it and some big industry has tried to put it in a chicken). We believe in leaving our land healthier than when we found it - by using natural fertilizers rather than chemicals, by rotational grazing rather than confinement agriculture, by dragging our egg layers, broilers, and ducks around in mobile cages and chicken coops, rather than spraying Miracle-Gro off the back of a John Deere (though Nick would really like to try that, at least once). And we believe that all this, plus a little luck, allows us to offer to you the tastiest meats, the yellowest yolked eggs, and the most delectable vegetables you'll ever eat.
Variety of colors and ages. We can put you together a breeding herd comprised of 2010 yearlings one ram and three ewes. $650.00
Registered and in excellent health. Wonderful fiber producers. We also have 2-6 year old ewes for sale—proven breeders which routinely twin. Check out our Icelandic Sheep page for more information on the breed or call 202.215.7868 or email info@greenfencefarm.com for information and other prices.
Please visit, in cyberspace and otherwise, Ian Boden’s fabulous new restaurant in Staunton, the Staunton Grocery. He is doing amazing things with our eggs, meat and produce, along with the products of many small farms in our region. You need to go soon, before you have to know somebody to get in (and not just me - though Ian likes us, we’re not exactly the sort he wants eating in his front window).
Reservations: 540.886.6880
Poultry: We raise chicken, turkeys, and duck on pasture, pulled to fresh grass everyday in mobile cages. We also offer quail, guinea fowl, and partridge in season. Our poultry receive no antibiotics, hormones, or other oddities (if you don't count the occasional grasshopper) in their feed. We slaughter (or, as the marketing department prefers "harvest") ourselves, so you can be confident your poultry is handled in a clean, chemical free environment. Poultry is sold frozen and whole, priced, in most cases, by the pound.
Where to Find Green Fence Farm Products
On the Farm:
Our farm stand is open Wednesday-Sunday, May - October (check back soon; we'll post the hours as soon as we figure them out). All other times, call Nick at 202.215.7868 to see if someone is around and whether we have something to sell you.
Our farm stand is open Wednesday-Sunday, May - October (check back soon; we'll post the hours as soon as we figure them out). All other times, call Nick at 202.215.7868 to see if someone is around and whether we have something to sell you.
In Charlottesville, VA:
The Local
Mas Tapas
Clifton Inn
Palladio
L'Etoile
In Lexington, VA:
Farm to You
The Local
Mas Tapas
Clifton Inn
Palladio
L'Etoile
In Lexington, VA:
Farm to You
Green Fence Farm is located at:
Click on the link above to find us on MapQuest or call Nick at 202.215.7868 for directions.
2008 was our year from hell. 2009 was our year of "what the hell."
And please note, 2009 is "what the hell" with a period, not a question mark. I could also describe 2008 as "what the hell?" but with a question mark — and possibly a couple of exclamation marks as well. "What the hell? I thought you said it was PRE-cancer?? Six brutal chemo sessions and how many surgeries?? Four?!?" What the HELL!?!"
Other Meats: We offer grass fed rabbit, beef, lamb, and goat. The rabbits are whole; the other meats are by the cut.