Farm Journal
Have you reserved your Thanksgiving Turkey yet ???
They are raised on pasture, enjoying the bugs and the sunshine. We supplement with our certified organic mix of real grains
NO soy.
Our turkeys are doing fantastic and should reach a nice size with some larger ones.
Our turkeys are $10/lb.
To reserve a turkey :
$75 now
Balance at pick up.
Pick up on Saturday November 22 ....
Yes it takes over 5 months to raise a fantastic turkey ...
To reserve either email us or see me at the markets.
New Leaf Market 7th Annual Farm Tour
Sunday October 26, 2014 from 10am to 4pm
Farm Tour at 11am and 1pm
On going throughout the day, a detailed showcase of our chickens, our hogs, our sheep, our turkeys, our apiary and our donkeys.
Twin Oaks Farm is a certified organic 94 acres farm located in Holmes county. We raise heritage chickens, ducks, lambs and pigs on pasture, the old fashioned way.
At the farm we produce a whole line of artisan food only using organic and/or local ingredients. Our production is small and authentic. The taste of Real Food.
On the day of the Farm Tour you will have a closer look at what we do and how we do it from our thriving apiary using smaller bees to our incredible Big Black Hogs (yes our first litter of piglets is growing very fast), from our Rhode Island Red hens (producing the #1 eggs in the country according to the Cornucopia Institute Eggs Score Card) to our gentle Gulf Coast Sheep. We will show you how organic sustainable farming raise healthy animals giving them the space and the life they are supposed to have.
Ducks, geese, turkeys, donkeys ... they all will be roaming freely on pasture and be picture ready.
Stop at our unique Bistrot under the Oak and degust some delicious all organic and farm produced food.Our shop will be open with a whole cornucopia of goodies.
As we get closer to Farm Tour day please visit our web site for a detailed schedule.
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Thank you for supporting a better way to produce healthy and wholesome food.
Twin Oaks Farm
USDA Certified Organic
Bonifay FL 32425
www.twinoaksfarm.net
www.facebook.com/twinoaksfarm
The pix was taken late afternoon yesterday as the storm was kinda rolling in ... it looks like a lot of chickens but when they see me they all run toward me ... no worry NOT out of love for their farmer but for that bucket of grains I was carrying ... !!!
Our piglets are now 1 week old and doing well.
On day 2, we were able to move the second Mom back into a secured area. It was epic and took several hours for a few hundred yards. We would give Mom a little bit of food, move the babies a few feet but as soon as we would grab a baby, the little punk would scream like you wonder how such a little thing can make such a noise !!!
Mom reacting immediately, us looking innocent !!! Once she calmed down starting all over again ... It was not a fast move but even protective the mom was never aggressive ...
The big Mama was too far away to be moved but on Friday I came with a grand idea to move them and it did not work at all, the difference was this Mom was super aggressive when protecting the babies so everybody is still out there.
Both group have access to a pond and the babies already go roll in the mud ...
Here a few pictures, they are so much bigger and at least double in weight.
The second group, 6 days old ...
The first group, 6 days old ...
Mama having diner ...
We got 14 piglets in 24h!!!
Thank you to The Alys Gazette for featuring our great partnership with Kevin Korman, chef de cuisine at Caliza Restaurant.
http://slaughtergroup.com/files/5514/0422/3872/Alys-Gazette-Spring2014-TwinOaks.pdf
Thank you for supporting a better way to produce healthy and wholesome food.
Twin Oaks Farm - USDA Certified Organic - Bonifay FL 32425
www.twinoaksfarm.net - www.facebook/twinoaksfarm
From All of us here at the farm, we wish you ....
Please forward this email to your email list and help us spread the word about Real Food.
Thank you for supporting a better way to produce healthy and wholesome food.
Twin Oaks Farm - USDA Certified Organic - Bonifay FL 32425
www.twinoaksfarm.net - www.facebook/twinoaksfarm
This week I got my new bees through the mail !!!
I had all my hives ready to go. Here is the box of bees called a nuc, it comes with a queen and is ready to be installed in their new hive.
Once I open the box, I quickly remove a smaller box with the queen in it and close it back ...
The white part in the box is sugar ....
On the side of the box, you find a small plug that need to be removed, once the queen box and the bees will be in the hive, the bees will eat through the sugar and free the queen ....
The next step is to staple the queen box into the hive. It will stay there for a few days and once the queen is out it can be removed.
Then I needed it to get the bees into the hive, it is fairly easy, just you get thousands of bees buzzing around ... A good time to test your self control !!!
I just turn the box upside down and shake the bees out ...
I put an empty box on top of the frames to funnel the bees.
Et voila ... I leave the box in front of the hive for any of the bees still in to join.
Close up ... my pictures are not fantastic on this post, but I take them in full sun with a veil and smoke and bees ....