Meadowview Farm

by | Jul 1, 2021 | Producer and Farmer Profiles

Meadowview Farm
Contact: Jamie and Scott Clark
Address: 187 Currier Hill Rd. Gilmanton, NH, 03237
Email Address: meadowviewfarm@metrocast.net
Phone: 603-520-2017

About Us
Meadowview Farm is a family farm located in Gilmanton, NH. Our family is immersed in raising, breeding and showing purebred sheep across the United States. We raise approximately 200 lambs a year. Our mission is to raise homegrown lamb in a healthy and natural environment.

Practices
Our animals live in a clean, spacious, low stress environment with a wholesome diet of primarily grasses. We practice rotational grazing on our 100 acre farm. We use no hormones or antibiotics.

Lilac Hedge Farm

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Lilac Hedge Farm
Contact: Ryan MacKay
Address: 106 Bond Rd. Holden, MA, 01522
Email Address: lilachedgefarm@gmail.com
Phone: 774-249-4675
Website: www.lilachedgefarm.com

About Us
Here on Lilac Hedge Farm, our farm practice is setting a new standard in pasture-raised livestock farming. We are more than farmers, we are caretakers with a commitment to stewardship that reaches beyond our farm gate. We are proud to be bringing to market animal proteins like we use to eat years and years ago. We take pride in caring for every aspect of our farm, from the complexities of managing an expansive 350 acre farmland to assuring that each individual egg is nest-laid and hand-gathered. We are devoted to farming our way because we believe that the earth’s most delicious, healthiest foods are created when farmers work in harmony with nature. On the farm we raise beef, pork, lamb, chicken, turkey and duck on a pasture based system from birth to processing.

Kitchen Garden Farm

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Kitchen Garden Farm
Contact: Caroline Pam and Tim Wilcox
Address: 131 South Silver Lane Sunderland, MA, 01375
Email Address: orders@kitchengardenfarm.com
Phone: 413-387-5163
Website: www.kitchengardenfarm.com

About Us
Kitchen Garden Farm is located in the heart of the Pioneer Valley, the prime agricultural region of Western Massachusetts. The farm consists of 50 acres of rich river bottom soil with fields on both sides of the Connecticut River, in Sunderland and Whately. The farm’s home base is located on S. Silver Lane in the center of Sunderland, about five miles from UMASS Amherst.

Caroline and Tim started the farm in 2006 on 1 acre of rented land, and have expanded the farm greatly in recent years. All of the new land they have brought into cultivation had previously been farmed by conventional growers in the area.

Practices
Kitchen Garden Farm is doing the important work of converting prime agricultural land in their community to Organic production. Caroline and Tim are committed to growing healthy soils by cultivating a wide range of biodiverse crops, improving crop rotation and cover cropping.

Kellie Brook Farm

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Kellie Brook Farm
Contact: Tim Rocha
Address: 1024 Portsmouth Ave. Greenland, NH, 03840
Email Address: kelliebrookfarm@comcast.net
Phone: 603-702-0342
Website: http://www.kelliebrookfarm.com

About Us
Kellie Brook Farm is a family owned and operated farm on 30 acres in Greenland NH. Purchased in 1992 we started converting the abandoned fields into production by planting Christmas trees and then vegetables for the farmers markets. Ten years later we added pigs and chickens, the start of us specializing in natural raised meats.

Practices
Today Kellie Brook Farm produces: Pork, Chicken, Turkey and Duck, all raised free ranged or pasture raised and grain fed. Our animals are not fed growth stimulants, hormones, antibiotics or animal by products.
We feed alternative feeds, such as: bread, yogurt, whey, apples, pumpkins and other vegetables as much as possible. These feeds when combined with a non-medicated grain make for a slower growing animal and cuts of meat that are juicy and full of flavor, like the meats available at the local butcher when you were growing up.
Custom cuts and standing orders are always available, just contact us directly.

Julie’s Happy Hens

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Julie’s Happy Hens
Contact: Matt Gelbwaks and Julie Whitcomb
Address: 43 Old Milford Rd. Mont Vernon, NH, 03057
Email Address: julieshappyhens@gmail.com
Phone: 603-320-2353
Website: www.julieshappyhens.com

About Us
Julie’s Happy Hens is the largest pasture-raised table egg producer in the state. It is a terrible award to be bestowed on such a small operation, but it probably best defines how dire the agricultural situation has become in New Hampshire. Never the less, we are approximately 3500 birds producing free-range, possibly fertile, eggs in the lee of the Monadnocks. Most of our birds are laying hens, but we also have roosters, guineas, ducks, geese, peafowl, and turkeys.

We also raise a flock of milking sheep to produce cheese and yogurt as well as wonderful cuts of lamb.
Practices
We focus on sustainable agriculture using natural and humane practices. Our philosophical approach has as its keystone the well being of the land and our animals. We welcome visitors and are always proud to show off our farm. In fact, we encourage people to visit and participate in the animal’s lives, as that is the best way to understand the basis for your food and the responsibilities you have as a consumer, as well as the responsibilities we have as your farmer.

We do not use specifically non-gmo feed, as we can not source it without adding considerably to our carbon footprint. We have a special mixture formulated for us by BlueSeal and ground to order. it is pro-biotic and homeopathic in nature, but uses conventional soy and corn. Our husbandry practices for all animals go well beyond the rigors of the Organic Standards, but without the non-gmo feed, we are not certifiable. We use no pesticides, herbicides, or hormones and only antibiotics in life or death situations (and then, only with the sheep). We are also record keeping fanatics.