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Just a quick update. Turkey preorders have closed. As usual there is more demand than available supply. Thank you all for your support!

Also we will be closed for Thanksgiving November 23-25th. We will be open Wednesday November 22nd for turkey pickup and all your last minute purchases.

After having to ration everyone for what seems forever, we have BOTH of our dairy farms up and running right now and one of the farms just bought two extra cows! Normally we are saying, “Sorry, one gallon only per customer.” Maybe it’s a strange week and we are saying, “You can get two gallons per customer.”

I’m here to tell you, right now it is, “How many gallons would you like and can I help you carry a few to your car!”

This is a great problem to have and for all of you who have been wanting more milk and couldn’t get it, now is the time we’ve been working towards.

We are open today from 2-6 and again tomorrow from 2-6. We’ll be restocking with even more milk tomorrow so come and get your raw milk this week.

Thanks to all of Jeanette’s hard work, we have two chicken options going forward.

This week we received an order from Dawnbreaker Farms. And when I say order, I mean an order! 7 big boxes of chicken which Jeanette came in on her day off to put away.

Ben at That’s a lot of chicken! Unfortunately pricing on this new chicken is higher than our previous chicken. But it is here, where our old chicken is not, so you take what you can get and we are thankful to Ben at Dawnbreaker for working with us.

Dawnbreaker is going to help keep us going until Paul at Tomlinson farms can get his production up for us. Paul is a young farmer but he has it going on. He’s been ready to ramp up his production and partnering with us is allowing him to grow. I went today to do my normal inspection I do for any of our farmers and was impressed with Paul’s operation. It’ll be a few months before Paul has production enough to start supplying us, and we’ll grow together in 2023. Paul’s pricing should be somewhere between our old chicken and our current chicken so hopefully a happy medium that we can all live with.

Since my daughters have both decided they want to eat chicken almost exclusively, I know I’ll be buying lots of chicken these next few months. Until they move onto their next weird diet.

I just spoke to Jeanette and she’s very positive on the chicken farmer she’s talking to now. Good product. Good availability, at least over the long term. (There will be some ramp up time I’m sure) Good people. Hopefully the conversations will continue is a positive manner and we’ll have an announcement soon, like next week soon.

With that said, our possible new chicken farmer will not be able to supply us eggs. As someone who had eggs for lunch today and with a daughter who bakes, I feel the need for eggs as much as you do.

You fine folks have been awesome for helping us find new farmers, so I’m coming to you once again. Do you know a farmer who could supply us eggs? We’d need probably 20-30 dozen per week, and I can’t drive an hour to get eggs only. The numbers don’t work with the cost of gas and labor. I’m already heading to Wilson County and Johnston County weekly so someone in that area would make sense because I can combine trips, which does make the numbers work.

We would look at smaller producers if you have someone who had a backyard flock and wants to sell their eggs. Especially if they can deliver to the store. Enough small producers equal one big producer so that is an option.

Please let me know if you have someone you think I could work with and we’ll make contact.

As always, thank you!

As I sat in my office located just above the store in the barn this morning, wondering which thing that was due two days ago I was going to work on today, I glanced out of my window and was surprised to see this.

If you get past the focus on the window screen, you can see there is a rainbow this morning. Cool.

Of course I know I’m not a photographer so I ran outside to see what it looked like outside. It didn’t disappoint.

Low clouds scooting by, and a bright bottom rainbow and a clearly visible second rainbow. It’s gonna be a good day! But wait, my darling wife is home and the rainbow is dropping right on her head.

Calling the wife early in the morning. Or speaking to her. Or making noise. Or really anything prior to her getting up and going at her own time frame is generally a mistake.

It kinda goes like this.

But surely a rainbow dropping right on her head is a sign. I should call her.

This is a sign from above right? Your wife is home and you are sitting in a room by yourself working on paperwork. You should call her.

5 minutes after I called her, the rainbows were gone, the sky got dark, and it started raining for real. Crazy picture lady got her shot and all was right in the world.

What does this have to do with farming? I have no idea. But it was a cool start to the day. It’s gonna be a good day.

Update 12-20-2022.

Annnnd, it’s done. You’ve already overloaded the signup form and I had to turn it off. Dunno if Kate will do this again (I suspect so) but for now, if you made it in, you are probably in the class. For anyone still interested, stay turned. We’ll probably do this again.

We had so many signups to the class we taught last weekend that I had to cut off signups after one day. With that much interest, Kate agreed to come back and do another class here at the farm.

If you’d like to learn how to make real cheese from real milk, and butter the same way, please signup at this link.

As before, we’ll take the signups in the order they come in, so first come, first serve. I don’t have a way to cut off signups after a certain number so you’ll be notified when I have a chance to look at the responses whether you are in the front or the back of the line.

One thing we’ve enjoyed as a store for years is our relationship with Brittany Ridge Farms. Our chickens and our turkeys have come from them from the beginning and I’ve dreaded the day that Christy would get tired of farming.

We’ve received word that that day has come and Christy is going to start getting out of the chicken business, which breaks our hearts because we have had such a good relationship for so long. She says she might keep doing turkeys for us, so that would be a big help but now we are in need of a new chicken farmer/farmers. We go through a pretty good amount of chicken so somebody with a few backyard birds isn’t going to cut it.

If you know of anyone who is interested in growing their chicken business, please send them our way. We pay on delivery and treat our farmers well, being farmers ourselves we get it.

Anyone much West of Greensboro is a no go for us. East of Greenville is a stretch as well, unless they deliver, in which case we’ll take anyone in NC that raises the right kind of birds the right way.

We will be closing December 24th, and December 31st for the holidays. We hope that all of you have a wonderful Christmas.