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A letter from the Farmer...

2007 – Our maiden year and what FUN!  Yes, it was a lot of hard work; however the REWARDS

made it fun and very worthwhile.         

 We grew chickens, turkeys and pigs. Oh my!  The meat they provided tasted delicious 

(Eileen says it is beyond delicious!).  We met lots of wonderful people.  They also love

 our products. It is such a pleasure to hear statements from our customers like, “I’ve never

 had turkey/chicken/pork that tasted so good!” They know and we know that not only does

 it taste incredibly good, it is healthier than ‘factory produced meat’, humanely raised and local.

 

Then there was the great feeling when folks would visit the farm.  If children were present, we

would always invite them to collect the eggs.  Their excitement and the look of wonder on their

faces (yes teenagers too!) when they picked up an egg and discovered it was still warm was

fantastic.

 

Last September, we added a grass-fed laying flock.  We house them in a travel trailer with

electric netting around their field.  The electric netting protects the hens from predators.

What a blast! They’re a real cast of characters, our ‘Ladies’ are.  The eggs are great tasting

and because ‘the Ladies’ are grass-fed their eggs provide Omega 3 without the mercury!

 

Our mascots, Taj and Dolly, Scottish Highland cows arrived in October.  They started their

journey to the Plaid Piper Farm with a 2 month honeymoon at Fred & Parker Space’s farm.

We are expecting calves in August!  Stay tuned for the latest news on these little cuties.

Yes, one of the BEST years of my life, aside from when my children were born.

 

We’ve made the decision to transition the entire farm back to all grass.  This is significant because it will

allow us to be better stewards of the land that has been taking care of our family for 200 years.  We will

be doing some bio-dynamic gardening to learn another natural way to insure future fertility and a more

positive terroir for our products.  Eventually I’d like to use the bio-dynamic approach on the entire farm.

We will also be offering grass-fed and finished beef. 

 

As always, our products will be fresh, clean, humanly raised, ecologically sensitive, drug and chemical free.

We are very proud of our products and confident that you will be delighted with their taste.

 

So, come and visit.  Collect your own eggs from the ‘Ladies’ if you like or take a hike, have a picnic.

Say ‘hello’ to Taj and Dolly. 

2008 is going to be even more exciting! 

Enjoy our views.  Make our farm YOUR farm.

         Paul Dalrymple

 

March 18, 2008