Backyard Poultry Intensive Workshop by the Abundance Foundation

Backyard Poultry Intensive Workshop

January 12, 2013 from 9am-5pm

Held at Company Shops Market, Burlington’s Food Coop; 268 E. Front St.
 Burlington, NC Part of the workshop will be at the Co-op and then we will go on a tour of TS Designs and visit their backyard chicken operation.

A workshop for backyard poultry enthusiasts and small, sustainable farmers who are interested in breeding, growing and enjoying standard bred poultry. This all day workshop will include the following sessions: ”Identifying Standard Bred & Heritage Poultry”, “Facilities, Feed, Forage & The Backyard”, “Selecting and Culling your Flock from Production”, “Basic Poultry Health Management and Disease Control”, and “Opportunities for Breeding, Preservation, Exhibition and Marketing”.
About the Instructor:
Jim Adkins started his poultry interest as a young man who grew up in 4-H, raising and exhibiting poultry in southwest Washington State. For the past thirty years, Jim has raised over fifty breeds and varieties of standard bred poultry (that includes chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys). In 1994, he received his poultry judging license from the American Poultry Association which has taken him to thirty plus states, Canada, and Australia to judge standard bred poultry. Jim recently worked for a large commercial turkey company; supervising five ranches that produced over a half million turkeys a year. Jim is a passionate, effective communicator who loves poultry and loves to teach people about the available opportunities with poultry. He has been teaching poultry field days and workshops throughout the United States and abroad as well. He has been invited to teach courses at Calpolyin San Luis Obispo, CA, the University of Montana, the University of Alaska and the University of Arizona. Jim established the International Center for Poultry in 1992 and currently lives in McDowell County, NC and serves as a sustainable poultry specialist.
$45 – Early Bird Registration until Jan. 1st
$50 Jan 2nd to Jan 12th
Registration and Pre-payment required
Workshop is limited to 20 participants.
Register using Secure Google Checkout:

SOLD OUT! Please email wow@theabundancefoundation.org to be informed of upcoming workshops.

Or mail your check to:
The Abundance Foundation
220 Lorax Lane #5
Pittsboro, NC 27312
Questions? Call 919-533-5181 or Email wow@theabundancefoundation.org

Aged Raw Milk Aged Goat Cheese

In the summer of 2012, we began making our first raw milk aged farmstead cheeses, using only milk from our herd, in our new creamery. These cheeses are aged from two to eight months in both natural rinds and waxed rinds.

In October 2012, we received our Grade B Goat Dairy license and began selling our goat cheeses in the farm store. In 2013, we will begin producing fresh chevre along with our favorite, both plain and marinated fetas. Due to the seasonality of our products, not all cheeses are available at all times in our farm store.

Tomme-Style Aged Raw Milk Goat Cheese Tomme is a generic name given to an ancient mountain cheese produced in Switzerland and the French Alps. Our tomme-style white goat cheese is made in a circular round shape with either a red waxed rind or a thin natural edible rind.  It is a hard, dry, granular sharp flavored cheese, with the scent of our cheese cave and all its good microflora (good bacteria).  It is suitable for grating and makes an excellent melted cheese dish with potatoes, pasta sauces and is used over salads, soups and pizzas. Tomme-Style Shredded Aged Raw Milk Goat Cheese Tomme is a generic name given to an ancient mountain cheese produced in Switzerland and the French Alps. Our tomme-style white goat cheese is made in a circular round shape with either a red waxed rind or a natural edible rind. It is a hard, dry, granular sharp flavored cheese, with the scent of our cheese cave and all its good microflora (good bacteria). It is suitable for grating and makes an excellent melted cheese dish with potatoes, pasta sauces and is used over salads, soups and pizzas.  This tomme-style cheese is already shredded for your convenience. Gouda Gouda, a Dutch origin cheese from Holland, is a white cheese made in a circular round shape with a red wax-coated exterior. It is a smooth, velvety, sweet cheese that is dense and tangy.  It is easy to slice or cube and is eaten as a snack, as a grilled cheese or melted on pizza or shredded over salad.  Gouda is also a good table cheese and compliments fresh fruit such as grapes, nuts and crusty breads. Havarti Havarti, originally a Dutch origin cheese from Denmark in the 1800's, is a white cheese made in a circular round shape with a red wax-coated exterior. It is a smooth, creamy, sharp cheese that is dense and becomes saltier and sharper with age. It is easy to slice or cube and is eaten as a snack, as a grilled cheese with tomato or grilled cheese with prosciutto and onion.

Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery, LLC

3255 Buffalo Creek Farm Road

Germanton, NC 27019

336.969.5698

Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery is located on Buffalo Creek Farm Road in Germanton, NC near the intersection of Hwy 65 and Hwy 8 (Germanton Road) at the Forsyth / Stokes County line. We are a few miles north of Winston-Salem and a short drive from Rural Hall, King, Walkertown, Kernersville. Walnut Cove, Danbury, High Point, Greensboro, Pilot Mountain, Mt. Airy and other communities in the Piedmont of North Carolina and Virginia. In our on site Farm Store, we have raw milk aged goat cheese, grass fed beef, pastured lamb and pastured free range eggs along with our handmade goat's milk soap and other local goodness.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to you and your family!

Winter's Dry Skin?

Ravens Moon Herbal is located in Walkertown, North Carolina and we sell a variety of their goat's milk lotions in our store at Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery, LLC.

Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery, LLC

3255 Buffalo Creek Farm Road

Germanton, NC 27019

336.969.5698

Happy Girls!

 

We sell limited amounts of fresh eggs from our chickens usually during the spring and summer months.  The unusually warm December weather is keeping our girls happy and egg production is up.

Here at Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery, LLC our chickens are raised on pasture. They are both happy and healthy. Their eggshells are thicker, whites whiter and the yolks are larger, firmer and a bright orange. (Don't try cooking a white cake with these eggs if you want the layers to be white.) Our Golden Comet hens have the opportunity to forage and interact with other animals throughout the farm. While foraging for grasses/seeds, grubs and insects, the chickens consume approximately 30 percent of their diet. They receive Vitamin D from the sun while getting protein from their "bug" diet. This free ranging reduces the need for supplemental feed and more importantly improves egg flavor. The remainder of their diet consists of locally purchased feed with no antibiotics, added hormones or animal by-products. Chickens also provide a much needed service on the farm - - they help control flies by eating fly larvae and also cultivate and fertilize the pastures. Each egg is washed individually and provided to you in recycled egg cartons.

Eggs are available in our farm store.  Email or call ahead to check availability.

Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery, LLC

3255 Buffalo Creek Farm Road

Germanton, NC 27019

336.969.5698

Sweet!

Looking for fresh raw honey? You'll love the fresh honey from our friends at Tyson's Farm in Madison, NC!

In addition to their new bottles with plastic flip-top lids that are kid friendly, we have LARGER containers who use honey daily for cooking.

Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery, LLC

3255 Buffalo Creek Farm Road

Germanton, NC 27019

336.969.5698

Local Meats

We have farmstead meats available in our farm store.  "Farmstead" meat is meat that comes from our own herd.  Our farm is located in Forsyth County, near the Stokes County line, off Germanton Road (Highway 8) which is only 6 miles from Winston-Salem.

The meat is frozen fresh at the time of processing.  Beef, Lamb, Chicken, and Rabbit are available in the farm store.  Call or email for availability of your favorite cuts.  Pricing is available on the website also.

Our beef cattle are taken to a local meat processor, M. L. Mitchell & Son Meat Processing in Walnut Cove, NC for processing. Our meat is USDA inspected and it is available for purchase in our Farm Store. It is vacuum sealed, labeled and frozen by our processor in portion quantities per package. For example, there is usually one steak per package and our hamburger is in one pound packages. Packages are sold by weight and package weight will vary slightly. Our beef cattle are raised on grass only with free choice minerals provided. Any hay they receive, only if grass is covered by snow, is grown on our farm using no sprays or commercial fertilizers. Our sheep are pasture raised and supplemented with grain. Hay for the winter months is grown on our farm using no sprays or commercial fertilizers. Our lambs are taken to a local meat processor, Vealco in Madison, NC for processing. Our meat is USDA inspected and it is available for purchase in our Farm Store. It is vacuum sealed, labeled and frozen by our processor in portion quantities per package. Packages are sold by weight and package weight will vary slightly. Our chicken is pasture raised and they are supplemented with laying pellets and scratch grains. Our poultry is taken to Chauldhry in Siler City, NC and is processed Halal. The chicken is also USDA inspected and it is available for purchase in our Farm Store. It is vacuum sealed, labeled and frozen whole by our processor. Packages are sold by weight and package weight will vary. Our chicken usually varies from 3.5 - 6 pounds. Our rabbits are taken to Chauldhry in Siler City, NC and are processed Halal. Rabbit is available for purchase in our Farm Store. It is vacuum sealed, labeled and frozen by our processor. Packages are sold by weight. A 2% sales tax will be added to all meat sales.

Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery, LLC

3255 Buffalo Creek Farm Road

Germanton, NC 27019

336.969.5698

Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery is located on Buffalo Creek Farm Road in Germanton, NC near the intersection of Hwy 65 and Hwy 8 (Germanton Road) at the Forsyth / Stokes County line. We are a few miles north of Winston-Salem and a short drive from Rural Hall, King, Walkertown, Kernersville. Walnut Cove, Danbury, High Point, Greensboro, Pilot Mountain, Mt. Airy and other communities in the Piedmont of North Carolina and Virginia. In our on site Farm Store, we have raw milk aged goat cheese, grass fed beef, pastured lamb and pastured free range eggs along with our handmade goat's milk soap and other local goodness.

Piedmont Farm School 2013

                     
The Piedmont Farm School that is a great way to help answer these questions and more for individuals who are seriously considering or currently involved in farming and is designed to provide training in production practices and business planning.
This school will offer seven business-planning seminars that will provide you the tools to create a viable business plan for a small-scale, economically sustainable farm enterprise. This training will include seven field trips to different working farms around the region led by successful innovative farmers and agricultural professionals.
Each month from February to June and September to October, the group will meet one evening for business training and on another day for a field trip to local farms. Field trip topics include the following: whole farm planning, livestock basics (beef cattle, hogs, meat and dairy goats, poultry), fruits, vegetables, specialty crops, agritourism, and marketing.

Check out the brochure for more information about registration and cost.

Feb. 12

‐ Whole Farm Planning

Feb. 28

‐ Farm Trip to Peregrine Farm in Alamance County

 

March 12

‐ Farm Planning

March 28

‐ Small Scale Dairy Goat Lady Dairy in Liberty, NC Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery, LLC in Germanton, NC

 

April 9

‐ Financial Record Keeping

April 25

‐ Specialty Crops Farm Trip (Hops & Mushrooms) in Yadkin & Iredell Counties

 

May 14

‐ Farm History & Current Situation "What Have You Got?”

May 30

‐ Fruits Farm Trip to High Rock Nursery and The Persimmon Branch

June 11

‐ Marketing Fundamentals

June 27

‐ Vegetables Farm Trip to Piedmont Research Station

Salisbury and Correll Farms, Cleveland in Rowan County

 

September 10

‐ Your Business Planning

September 26

‐ Pasture Pork and Poultry Farm

Trip to Wild Turkey Farm in Rowan County

 

October 8

‐ Student Review

October 27

‐ Agritourism, Marketing Sanders Ridge Winery, Vineyard & Organic Farm, in Booneville

Pucker Up!

Our farm store got a new delivery in of natural lip balms from Germanton's own Long Family Farm - - tangerine and spearmint. These make great stocking stuffers!

Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery, LLC

3255 Buffalo Creek Farm Road

Germanton, NC 27019

336.969.5698

Farmer's Market Managers Workshop

MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR THE FARMERS MARKET MANAGERS WORKSHOP NEAREST TO YOU

NCDA&CS will hold its annual Farmers Market Managers workshops in three locations in late February and early March 2013 as follows:

Friday, February 22 - New Hanover Government Center, Wilmington, NC

Friday, March 8 - Johnston County Extension Office, Smithfield, NC

Wednesday, March 13 - Virginia Boone Building, WNC Ag Center, Fletcher, NC

Registration for the workshops will open on January 14.

Stay tuned!

Annette Dunlap, MBA
Food Business Specialist

2 West Edenton Street
Raleigh, NC 27601

1020 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1020

 Phone: 919.707.3117
Fax: 919.733.0999

annette.dunlap@ncagr.gov

Slow Food Piedmont's Second Annual Seed Swap

Slow Food Piedmont'sSecond Annual Seed Swap & Potluck

at Old Salem

Saturday, January 19, 2013

Single Brothers' Workshop

(10 W. Academy Street)

Join the seed swapping fun!
Slow Food Piedmont, with support from the Horticulture Department of Old Salem Museums & Gardens, will be holding the much anticipated annual seed swapping event for both new and long-time heirloom seed growers. Free.

Seed swapping is also story swapping, so this year’s event will provide time to share the known history of special seeds, as well as swap growing experiences with the wide variety of seeds grown and saved in our area.

A potluck lunch is a part of this day of fun, swap, & share – you are invited to bring a dish you love to make from your garden bounty or from a favorite family recipe. Everyone is welcome!

9:00am -10:30am
Seeds with Stories Exchange
(pre-registration required)
This session is designed for seasoned seed savers who are encouraged to bring their seeds, corms, or scions along with their stories to share with other seed savers. Pre-registration is required; please email slowfoodpiedmont@gmail.com

11:00am - 1:30pm
Seed Swap and Potluck
(open to all)
Come one and all - first timers and seasoned swappers! Please bring seeds, stories, and/or questions. Also, a dish to share.
Local experts will be on hand to answer questions.

In the event of inclement weather, or if Old Salem is closed, the Seed Swap will be cancelled and rescheduled to January 26.

For further information, please email slowfoodpiedmont@gmail.com.

BEST Christmas lights!

Winston-Salem Monthly magazine has been scouring the area for the best Christmas lights. They're sharing one a day on their page--old favorites like this Hardee's (picture by J.Sinclair) and some local, lesser known impressive displays!