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, and German angora rabbits.

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 Charolottesville, 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.

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.

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 here.