Farm Overview

Oak Grove Valley Farm

Farm owner

Paul

our STORY We are a husband/wife team that has enjoyed farming since our childhood, having parents that loved farming whether in their backyards or on small acreages. Our farming hero is our uncle who was a market gardener and still went to the market up into his 90’s. We both work full-time in off farm jobs but we hope Paul will be able to retire this year and go full-time farm! We have two grown children but no grandchildren as of yet since we’re still waiting for our son and daughter to get married. The way it looks that might be happening this year! We have two Boxers Ruby and Roxy and two farm cats as well as a stray that calls our farm home. Our Practices Although not certified organic, it has been our practice since day one of owning the farm to avoid all synthetic chemicals and use only natural methods. Our animals are raised on pasture with fresh air and sunshine in their daily diet. We have mobile chicken/turkey tractors to keep them in at night (to avoid predation). The broiler chickens are moved daily across the pasture. The turkeys and egg layer chickens have an electric net fence to protect them from foxes and coyotes during the day. We make a lot of our own compost for the vegetable garden using leaves, yard and vegetable waste and the bedding from the mobile egg laying coop as well as the brooder where we raise the baby poultry. Any compost other than this is purchased from a local supplier that is organic certified. We want the products that we raise to be nutrient dense and free of chemicals and we are now using GMO free feed.