Our Farmers
Produce: Hepworth Farms
Hepworth Farms is a small diversified ecologically managed farm located on the banks of the Hudson River in New York State. The farm has been in the family for seven generations. The last 30 years of work on the farm have been dedicated to organic and ecologically sustainable farming. The fruit is grown in the Whole Farm Alive Systems Approach, using Integrated Pest Management (IPM). The fruit is of exceptional quality and taste! The produce will be picked fresh for you and is delivered at the wholesale price.
Some examples of fruit harvested from June to November: Strawberries, Cherries, Berries in July; Peaches, Plums, Nectarines, Grapes and Melons in July, August and September; Apples and Pears from August through November.
Seasonal vegetables include a variety of salad greens, cooking greens, soft vegetables, herbs, and root vegetables.
The produce is picked either the day before or the same day as delivery.
Produce: Lancaster Farm Fresh
Our watermelons and blueberries come from our organic Amish farmer friends out in Lancaster, PA.
Our feathered ladies (above) The Egg Mobile below | Eggs: Havenwood Farms
We are also working with Havenwood Farms to receive pastured eggs.
Eggs are $4 a dozen. Eggs are for sale in the year round.
Havenwood Farms is a small pasture based operation in Newton, NJ that currently is producing pastured eggs. Pasturing is the traditional method of raising egg-laying hens and other poultry. It is ecologically sustainable, humane, and produces the tastiest, most nutritious eggs. Pastured hens are raised on pasture, as opposed to being kept in confinement and fed primarily grains.
Havenwood Farms hens
are a Rhode Island Red/ New Hampshire White cross. Their roost , the "Egg Mobile" is 128 sq feet on the inside. Each day the door to the egg mobile is opened out to a 1500 sq ft area that is fenced off by 2-3 connected electro nets. Every two days the nest and the egg mobile are moved so the hens may graze on a new area, feasting on wild herbs and grasses, including clover and alfalfa, which the girls really love. They also gather a wonderful collection of bugs and earthworms that give their eggs a huge nutritional boost. The hens diets are naturally supplemented with an local all-natural feed base of corn, oats, kelp, oyster shells, roasted soybeans, Speltz ( a cross between oats and wheat that is extremely nutritious and has very high feed value) an organic vitamin and mineral supplement which includes lactobacillus and fresh grown sprouts.
These ladies are eating better than some humans we know!
Eggs from pastured hens are said to contain up to 20 times more healthy omega-3 fatty acids than factory hens. These benefits are passed onto the customer -the quality is undeniably better than any eggs sold at Whole Foods market - greater nutritional value and unbeatable taste!
The eggs are fresh-collected within a week of delivery. They are brown, unsorted and are of mixed sizes. The eggs are washed gently in warm water. Eggs are kept in a refrigerator at the state specified temperature. At delivery, eggs will be kept in a sealed cooler with cold packs .
*Hens with brown feathers and brown earlobes lay brown eggs, and hens with white feathers and white earlobes lay white ones! Each lays one egg every day or so.
**Pullets are adolescent hens. Mullets are a 70’s hairstyle. The two words rhyme but have no other connection. |