Mike and I got our first chickens in the summer of 2002. We maintained a flock of between six and eight hens at our old house and loved having fresh eggs. We let them free range and they kept the bug population way down as well as giving us lovely eggs.
Our flock currently stands at [...]
We eat at fast food restaurants.
We are busy, working parents with two young kids. Sometimes we go through the drive-thru. It is infrequent (once/twice a month) and we have rules, for example we try to only order fish or whole cuts of chicken if we order meat at all. We avoid foods that have been [...]
Almost all of the meat, probably at this point > 90%. We buy fish from a local fish market and rarely eat out, so I would say that figure is accurate. In the summer >75% of the produce we eat we grow. All of the eggs we eat we grow. We aren’t yet eating our [...]
We live on a farm because we love this lifestyle. Some people love sports, others love reading, others love watching tv. We love raising animals, DIY projects, and gardening. We also REALLY love good food, and that means having really fresh ingredients, and there is nothing fresher than food you grow yourself. We also like [...]
We have outside jobs. Mike works full-time from home as a computer consultant and Jamie works (very) part-time as a psychologist. There is no way we could live off of the income generated from our farm even if it was our full-time job. And honestly, we have no real interest in doing that. For now, [...]
People frequently ask us how (and why) we do what we do. We were not raised as farmers and spend much of our time (professionally and socially) interacting with people who are not farmers, although a number of them do try to eat local foods, grow gardens, are big into DIY and fiber crafts, [...]
Now that we have finally settled in from the madness of the last few months, we are tackling some seasonal projects. Honestly, winter is one of my favorite times of year because there is finally time to catch up on all of the indoor projects and planning that were so neglected during times of good [...]
All of us here at Terrabyte Farm hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving Day. We enjoyed a walk after turkey this afternoon. The weather is cloudy, but it’s warmed up nicely and is much dryer than earlier in the week.
Thanks, Mother Nature.
What a busy few weeks it has been around here.
Several weeks ago we picked up our beef and pork from the butchers. We took the pigs to Salem Prime Cuts in Salem, CT and the steer to Maurice’s in Canterbury, CT. They were both great. Finding out the hanging weights is the best part. It [...]
We are coming up on the one-year anniversary of moving to our farm (we closed on 10/31/08). In order to celebrate this amazing year, we are hosting a harvest potluck party. We have invited friends, neighbors, and all of our customers to come and share in our amazing harvest. Both our beef and our pork [...]