Fiber · Breeding Stock · Meat · Vegetables
Angora Rabbits has information on German Angoras available now and will have pictures as soon as I find the pluggy thing that makes the pictures go from the camera into the computer. Until then, you are welcome to come to the farm, find me, and I'll show you the pictures on my camera viewfinder.
We are sold out of Icelandic sheep pelts and almost out of cashmere goat pelts. Prices will go up next year, so you may want to take a look at the few scrappy ones we have left.
Breaking News
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).
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.
2009 CSA Shares SOLD OUT!
But You Can Still Sign for Other Opportunities to Buy Green Fence Farm Meats, Eggs, and Veggies in DC this Summer
But You Can Still Sign for Other Opportunities to Buy Green Fence Farm Meats, Eggs, and Veggies in DC this Summer
Yup, you sat around, watching American Idol, debating whether you really wanted THAT many vegetables this summer, arguing about who would go pick up your share and - POOF - we sold out. Now President Obama is getting fresh vegetables, your neighbor is getting fresh vegetables, and YOU are going to spend the summer sucking on Bird's Eye frozen peas.
Not to despair. Email us to get on our DC buyers' club list, and we will send you a list of what other items we will have for sale when we come in for our bi-monthly CSA deliveries. Just as in the past, we will have our pastured chickens and chicken livers as well as, new this year, quail, rabbit, duck, and Cornish game hens. We may have eggs (chicken, duck, or quail - and no grumbling. I warned you that if you really wanted eggs you had better sign up for the CSA) and may have veggies. As in the past, you preorder from the list we send out a few days before, come to the CSA pick-up and pay there.
Also, if you are on our buyers' club list, you will be sure not to miss the sign up for NEXT year's CSA. Go here to read more about the CSA you missed out on and, eventually, our buying club opportunities.
Like all other major retailers (think Macy’s), we are having a fabulous after holiday sale on all livestock! Check out ’08 born cashmere goats, registered Icelandic sheep, German angora rabbits, and our latest addition, Pekin duck eggs.
A big THANK YOU to all our loyal Spring/Summer/Fall food customers ─ at the Staunton Farmers’ Market, through www.localharvest.org, website readers, Staunton Grocery and Newtown Bakery in Staunton, The Local in Charlottesville, and our oh-so-loyal-and-patient DC buyers’ clubs. Some updates:
● Chicken and/or duck eggs will be available at the Newtown Bakery in Staunton (960 West Beverley St.) until the market opens back up. And, of course, they are always available at the farm. Just call first to make sure we are there (202-215-7868).
● A limited number of our famous broilers, stewing hens, quail, and rabbit are also available for pick-up at the farm. Call Nick at the number above.
● Call now to reserve a whole goat or (maybe) lamb for Easter.
● We are desperately trying to get the quail to start laying again by pretending it is Spring. So far, they aren’t buying it (could it be the frozen water bottles). If we can outwit these tiny animals (with brains as big as a dust speck), we will fill our back orders from Local Harvest first and then make them available through Newtown Bakery.
Our Products
Chicken Sales contains information on how we raise our delicious broilers, why you should want to eat them, and where to rush right out to if you want to buy some.
Sheep Sales and Goat Sales lists the Icelandic lambs and Cashmere kids born this year that we have for sale.
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 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
540-886-6880
Finally, thank you to all those who have sent Kate healing thoughts and wishes. She finished chemo in time to eat hardily through the Holiday season. She has one more surgery in mid-January, then we hope she will be moving permanently off what we have come to call “Cancer Island.” You can see her update from earlier this year at 2008 Update.