feather + forage | FARMSTEAD

feather + forage | FARMSTEAD

From our farm to your table —

Based in Eden NC, we produce small-batch beef and poultry products utilizing regenerative farming and rotational grazing techniques.

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Have you been waiting to try one of our Pasture Raised Chickens or Ducks? Well, tomorrow is your last chance to pick one up before our farm packs up and makes it's way to Eden, NC.

Our heritage American Bresse chickens have more juicy dark meat and

The last couple of months have been pretty crazy around here. Not only are we getting ready to move our farm, but Rob was gone for 4 weeks (2 weeks at a time with a week in between) while I took care of the farm with the help of my sisters.

We also

We have been deep in piglet heaven the last month! Both Cookie and Boo Boo had their babies about 2 weeks apart. They were smaller litters to start, which can happen. Since this was their first litter, we are hoping for larger ones next round.

Boo B

Cows are such an incredible animal. They turn grass into the most nutrient dense food there is. One cow can feed our family for a year with their meat and organs, and one cow can supply many families with their dairy needs for the year too. All of th

Our ducks really have a wonderful life, being ducks. They wander the whole property, swim in the pond, take naps with their besties the pigs, then come home to their pen at night where they eat and get tucked into their coop for bed. They lay the mos

We have a few herd shares available! 🥛 🐄

How a herd share works is you sign an agreement that you are part owner of Big Mama the Milk cow. We are her caretakers, we feed her, brush her, move her to fresh grass daily and we milk her for you (while

Adding these beautiful chicken feet to our bone broth this morning, from chickens we grew and harvested. Chicken feet add so much goodness to bone broth, it will jiggle like jello.

Just boil them for 20 seconds, pop them in cold water. Then peel the

Beautiful, golden, raw butter from Big mama! We eat a ton of butter around here. Unfortunately all butter (any dairy) from the store has been heated so much that all that’s ALIVE and good in the butter has been killed. Raw is best my friends! I

Most of our duck eggs are white, but we have 3 ducks that lay some interesting eggs. Our little black Swedish lays green eggs and our two Cayuga ducks lay these black/grey eggs in the spring. As the season goes on they get lighter and lighter. Aren&r

So it begins! We sent our first batch of eggs to the incubator last week. We will be hatching about half meat birds and half egg layers this round! This is why we went with Bresse for our meat birds. Did you know you can’t hatch eggs from your

Yesterday I had the opportunity to go see “Uncle Justin” and Rebekahs farm in NC. They had a little party and gave us a tour of the farm. They have built such a beautiful permaculture homestead, and it was so cool to finally see it in per