Take a bike tour of grand isle farms this coming weekend and see our farm Blue Heron Farm! Check out it out at www.vermontfarmtours.com – There will also be a delivery service so you can buy things like farm fresh organic chicken, eggs, veggies, wool and it will be delivered back to snow farm vineyard […]
Just a Reminder -CSA pickup is moved to TOMORROW – TUESDAY – Happy 4th!
Taste of Place
Hi Everyone – wanted to blog quickly about a thought I had – well reoccuring thoughts I have had about “Taste of Place.” Not sure if I will finish it in this post or not – due to the need to go out and move and feed animals and feed and change the sleeping ones […]
Fresh Certified Organic Chicken Available now:)
At our farm we pasture all of our birds and feed them only certified organic grain and our organic veggies. We do not the white cornish cross birds – those one do not do well on pasture and have meat mostly only on their breasts. The birds we raise for meat are a slower growing […]
SO WHAT’S HAPPENING ON THE FARM THIS WEEK?
VOLUME VI, JOURNAL II JUNE 27, 2011 BLUE HERON FARM JOURNALGreetings from the farm! So here is Week 2 of 18 weeks. When I saw the green onions the interns and Adam picked today – I had a grin from ear to ear – they are B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L! It made my heart sing – these onions […]
First Pickup – tomorrow Monday, June 13
Hello Everyone- Sorry for the late notice but after talking to a few members at market on Saturday and since the spinach did not bolt this week – we will be having a a pickup this MONDAY at the farm from 4-6pm. We wanted to make sure you got spinach and rhubarb before it went […]
We need help planting on Tuesday June 7th:)
We are looking for a MOB of people to descend on our farm TUESDAY- yes TOMORROW – to help us gt caught up from flooding – we are looking for a short bit of time – meet at 8 until noon or whatever you can give. We will feed you yumminess. Our fields and hoophouses […]
Thought for the day courtesy of Sue
My sister Sue is out in Kalcutta, India working/ doing service at Mother Teresa’s homes and Brother Xaviers. This is what she posted on her update today and wanted to share it with all of you – because love is hard – whether it be with people, animals, farm, land, weather.. Love you Susie – […]
Looking for two apprentices for this growing season
Hey everybody – we are looking for 2 apprentices (we just had to positions open up unexpectedly) to start ASAP for this growing season – room (wonderful yurt like tent in the middle of a pasture),board and small stipend – we have a dairy cow, sheep, lambs, chickens, meat birds, and tons of vegetables – […]
Why We Raise Pastured Certified Organic Chicken and Eggs
Blue Heron Farm is a small diversified certified organic family farm in Grand Isle, Vermont surrounded by Lake Champlain. Our farm has always been certified organic since its conception in 2004- vegetables and animals- including our eggs. We are a mama and a daddy raising our children and farming. Our family, including our young daughters, […]