Partnership with Pennypack Farm and Education Center CSA
Misty Knoll Farm Pastured Egg Shares now available exclusively for Pennypack Farm & Education Center CSA shareholders
We are pleased to announce our partnership with Pennypack Farm CSA and Education Center. Egg shareholders can pick up our eggs at the Highlands location from June 7 through November 15, 2013. The price of a share is $138 for one dozen eggs for 24 weeks. A few shares are still available, and the price on these will be prorated according to when the share term begins.
Whenever possible, we'll bring extra eggs along for purchase at the pickup site for $6 per dozen. To purchase eggs at the Highlands on Fridays, please bring the exact amount of money, as there are not accommodations to make change.
Reserve your egg share by emailing us at [email protected] We will confirm your purchase or your place on the waiting list.
Please make your check out to Misty Knoll Farm and send it to:
Misty Knoll Farm
103 Benner Road
Royersford, PA 19468.
We are pleased to announce our partnership with Pennypack Farm CSA and Education Center. Egg shareholders can pick up our eggs at the Highlands location from June 7 through November 15, 2013. The price of a share is $138 for one dozen eggs for 24 weeks. A few shares are still available, and the price on these will be prorated according to when the share term begins.
Whenever possible, we'll bring extra eggs along for purchase at the pickup site for $6 per dozen. To purchase eggs at the Highlands on Fridays, please bring the exact amount of money, as there are not accommodations to make change.
Reserve your egg share by emailing us at [email protected] We will confirm your purchase or your place on the waiting list.
Please make your check out to Misty Knoll Farm and send it to:
Misty Knoll Farm
103 Benner Road
Royersford, PA 19468.
About our Pastured Eggs
Lift the lid on your box of eggs from our happy hens and delight to the variety of colors and sizes included in every dozen. It's your first clue that you're about to enjoy a special treat! Crack one open and see the beautiful orange yolk. This is not an egg you can buy in the grocery store, no matter how many claims the label makes about "cage free," "access to outdoors," or "organic." But what really stands out about our eggs is the egginess of their flavor--just wait till you taste them!
We believe that you are what you eat, and chickens are what they eat, too. Every hen on our farm lives outside on chemical-free pastures all day long, where they forage on grasses and legumes, scratch an abundance of juicy grubs and bugs out of the soil, and luxuriate in their carefully-constructed dust baths. This natural diet is supplemented with an all-natural complete chicken feed that includes flax seed, to enhance the level of Omega 3 fatty acids. Our birds are not given antibiotics or any other medications or additives which contain yucky things like arsenic that have been detected in poultry from factory farms.
We believe that you are what you eat, and chickens are what they eat, too. Every hen on our farm lives outside on chemical-free pastures all day long, where they forage on grasses and legumes, scratch an abundance of juicy grubs and bugs out of the soil, and luxuriate in their carefully-constructed dust baths. This natural diet is supplemented with an all-natural complete chicken feed that includes flax seed, to enhance the level of Omega 3 fatty acids. Our birds are not given antibiotics or any other medications or additives which contain yucky things like arsenic that have been detected in poultry from factory farms.
We try to give our hens the best chicken's life imaginable! And we wouldn't want to neglect mentioning their ever-vigilant protector, Winston, who heads our team of livestock guardian dogs. He is a poultry specialist, patrolling both the skies for aerial predators like hawks and owls, and the ground for opportunistic foxes.
As always, our invitation to you is to come to the farm and see our hens living on the pastures.
As always, our invitation to you is to come to the farm and see our hens living on the pastures.
Comparison of Practices in Commercial versus
Pastured Egg Production
Commercial egg-laying facilities house tens of thousands of birds, and the hens who lay eggs for commercial producers live every single day of their lives inside cavernous structures, often confined in groups of eight birds inside cages so small they can never spread their wings, much less fly or run around.
Don't think that "free range" or "cage-free" birds have it much better. They're also crowded into huge buildings by the tens of thousands, never seeing the sun, breathing fresh air or feeling soil beneath their feet. If you were permitted inside, the stench in these buildings would knock you over.
Because any little illness would quickly spread throughout the building, decimating the entire flock, confinement operations typically give medications in the feed which can include arsenic to control parasites and subtherapeutic levels of antibiotics to prevent infections.
Normally, chickens seek out elevated perches to sleep on, but they are denied this comfort in factory-style hen houses, where they can never escape either the wire floor of a cage or the manure-soaked deep bedding in a cage-free facility.
One of the darker sides of normal chicken behavior is their aggression toward each other as they establish their social hierarchy. Pecking, escalating to cannibalism, is aggravated by a stressful environment, such as high-density confinement. In an effort to mitigate injuries inflicted by pecking, hens in confinement are debeaked.
For more information on this procedure and other accepted practices in factory farming, just do a simple web search using the terms "debeaking chickens" or "chicken factory farming." Here is just one interesting article to expand your understanding of this issue.
We offer an alternative source of eggs for local families who want to decrease their participation in the industrial food system. Our birds live in a pasture-based environment that allows them to express normal chicken behaviors, like flying, perching, foraging, scratching the soil, dust-bathing, and running around to escape the aggressive moves of dominant hens defending their place in the pecking order. And, again, we don't need to give antibiotics or any other medications to our hens because they are thriving without such additives in the low-stress environment we are providing them.
Don't think that "free range" or "cage-free" birds have it much better. They're also crowded into huge buildings by the tens of thousands, never seeing the sun, breathing fresh air or feeling soil beneath their feet. If you were permitted inside, the stench in these buildings would knock you over.
Because any little illness would quickly spread throughout the building, decimating the entire flock, confinement operations typically give medications in the feed which can include arsenic to control parasites and subtherapeutic levels of antibiotics to prevent infections.
Normally, chickens seek out elevated perches to sleep on, but they are denied this comfort in factory-style hen houses, where they can never escape either the wire floor of a cage or the manure-soaked deep bedding in a cage-free facility.
One of the darker sides of normal chicken behavior is their aggression toward each other as they establish their social hierarchy. Pecking, escalating to cannibalism, is aggravated by a stressful environment, such as high-density confinement. In an effort to mitigate injuries inflicted by pecking, hens in confinement are debeaked.
For more information on this procedure and other accepted practices in factory farming, just do a simple web search using the terms "debeaking chickens" or "chicken factory farming." Here is just one interesting article to expand your understanding of this issue.
We offer an alternative source of eggs for local families who want to decrease their participation in the industrial food system. Our birds live in a pasture-based environment that allows them to express normal chicken behaviors, like flying, perching, foraging, scratching the soil, dust-bathing, and running around to escape the aggressive moves of dominant hens defending their place in the pecking order. And, again, we don't need to give antibiotics or any other medications to our hens because they are thriving without such additives in the low-stress environment we are providing them.