• RAINBOW EGGS (free range, always fresh)
According to current regulations, hens are considered to be “free range” if they are permitted access to outdoors. Most commercial chickens never venture outside the confines of the poultry barn. They just stumble around inside it. Our hens are bona fide absolutely free range the year round. They have a nice dry, clean, and well-insulated coop to shelter them from extreme cold weather and night-time predators.The hatches remain open throughout the daylight hours and the birds can come and go as they please, even during the winter.

Sometimes, they’ll visit with the ducks and geese and guinea fowl that winter in the barn, a few of the hens enjoy hanging out with our pigs. Most of the year they wander around the premises, scratching for bugs and seeds, happily turning over the manure piles and compost heaps, and generally livening up the place with their antics. We use portable electric poultry fencing to control their range when necessary. And we fence them out of the garden until it is well established to keep them from uprooting tender seedlings and turning the seedbeds into dustbaths.   Later in the season, we allow them back in to forage for bugs, which they do with enthusiasm. In addition to forage, we feed our birds certified organic grain produced by Green Mountain Feeds of Bethel, VT. We are working toward mixing our own grain ration and supplementing it with traditional 19th-century poultry forage crops like brassicas and turnips and our own field corn. 

Our birds are an eclectic and ever changing mix of Rhode Island Reds, Americanas,  Silver Lace Wyandottes, Barred Rock,  Speckled Sussex, and Jersey Giants with Leghorns and Anaconas and Blue Andalusians and Marins soon to come. While we have a few production birds (Black-sex Link) we mostly rotate heritage breeds, raising new birds from day-old chicks to replace retired hens. Because of the diversity of our flock, we market “rainbow” eggs in a kaleidoscope of colors ranging from white thru  a spectrum of light to very dark brown and shades of blue and green. All our eggs  are as fresh as possible, never more than a few days old before they are delivered. Contrast this with commercial eggs which can legally be sold as “fresh” for up to fifty days.

We choose to pack our eggs in clear cartons made from recycled plastic.  Some folks might take umbrage with that, and argue in favor of recycled cardboard egg crates. To our way of thinking, it’s a six of one half dozen of the other situation. If no one buys products made from recycled plastic, the market for recycling plastics will dry up. So until they stop making PET soda bottles, we’re doing our part to encourage recycling. Also, plastic egg crates can be rinsed out and reused many times.  So return them when you pick up your fresh eggs. Finally, our eggs are just too pretty and colorful to hide behind cardboard.          

• PASTURED & FARM-PROCESSED POULTRY (click links below to learn more):
TURKEY • DUCK • CHICKEN

• PASTURED PORK (learn more about our farm-raised pork)