Harvest Dates
Thank you everyone who made our first and second harvest so successful, we sold all of our broilers. With our demand so high, we are going to take pre-orders with a $10 deposit.
Our next harvests will be August 22nd, …
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Smithshyre Farm Online Storefront
The Smithshyre Farm now has a online storefront. Our customers can now put deposits down on our poultry at our Shopify web site. Follow this link to give it a try,
http://the-smithshyre-farm.myshopify.com Chicken deposits are for the next harvest which …
Turkey Hatchlings
Well the Smithshyre is very excited today! Our turkey eggs hatched, we have 30 cute and clumsy Narragansett heritage turkeys. We will grow these birds for your Thanksgiving feast. We are currently taking deposits on these birds, supply is limited, …
Broilers on Pasture
Our meat birds (broilers) went out to pasture for the first time, yesterday. Our floor-less pen seems to be working well, for now. These chickens have been in a brooder for the last 3 and a half weeks. They have …
Growing Season and the Spring Fling is Here!
Well it is official, the growing season has arrived. We are excited to have lots of baby chicks in our brooders, fresh sprouts coming up in our new garden beds and seed trays filling in with freshly germinated seeds.
We …
Deep Bedding
It is time to get some garden beds in the ground. We want to turn a weedy sodded area into our garden. Deep bedding, John Seymour style, seems like the perfect technique. First thing we did was delineate the beds …
Its offical we have a new Farm!
We took possession of an old dairy farm in Pouslbo, WA. The land is good and the farm house old fashion, we are so blessed and lucky. It was a long hual since we started looking 12 months ago. We …
Potateo, Leek Harvest & Soup
“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
– Edith Sitwell
It was a delight to dig …
Frozen Pizza
Baking is always a fun winter activity.
We love pizza and what is better then homemade crust, not much. We usually double our batches and freeze the extra pizza bases. On this night we tripled it, yep 6 pizza crusts. …
Big day at the Shyre, pasta, bread and coyote!
Coyote Attack
And then there were 14….
Today we had our first lost of an “adult chicken”. We had a few not making it out of “chick-hood” and while it was sad, we would be too lucky to have not …
