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The Easiest Way to Shop Local - 4 Clicks from Farm to Doorstep

It's so wild to think about how much our farm has grown, changed, and adapted in the last 6 years.

We started out selling chickens from our garage, then added a farmers market, multiple grocery stores, and a super basic online order form. We built a full online store early in the pandemic, and recently we've taken one step further - we can ship our products to your door!

I know shopping from local farmers isn't always the easiest way to feed your family.

It usually involves gathering everyone up on Saturday morning for a trip to the farmers market or a drive out to the farm during pickup hours, which I know can be fun, but also challenging to fit into everything else you have going on some weeks.

We've been working on our shipping program for almost a year now. We've tested multiple kinds of packaging, worked with other farms who've been doing this for awhile, and we've been shipping out orders for awhile now just figuring out our systems.

I've held off doing an official "launch" of our shipping program until I felt sure we were ready to handle more orders, and this is the announcement that we are ready to do this in a big way!

As our "thank you" for being here and supporting us through so many stages of farm growth, we want to offer you a special bonus to test out our shipping option for the first time.

Use code FREESHIP for free shipping on your first Home Delivery Order!

Shop for Home Delivery Here

I know your initial reaction might be wait.... what?! It's frozen meat, how does that even work? Is it safe?

With special insulated boxes and ice packs, we can safely pack up a box of frozen meats, toss them (gently) onto the UPS truck, and your friendly neighborhood UPS driver will place it on your porch. All while everything in the box maintains a safe temperature.

Shop for Home Delivery Here

Here are a few other details you may want to know:

1. Our existing local pickup options will continue at this point.

- Chillicothe Farmers Market pickup

- Farm pickups on Tuesdays and Saturdays

- We'll also be adding farm store hours this Spring!

2. Some items, like our eggs, can't be shipped and are available for local pickup only.

3. There is a $100 minimum for shipping orders. This ensures there's enough cold stuff in the box to mostly fill it, which helps everything stay frozen.

4. If shipping delays happen or there are any issues with your items, we will make it right for you. So far, we haven't had any problems!

Shipping orders need to be placed by Monday evening each week and orders ship on Tuesday afternoons.

Orders headed to Ohio and surrounding states will arrive on Wednesday. Orders headed to states further from Ohio will arrive by no later than Thursday. We don't ship all the way to the west Coast, but we can ship to most states in the eastern half of the US!

If you're ready to test out our new shipping option - head into the Online Farm Store, choose Home Delivery - Shipping and shop for your favorites.

Be sure to use the FREESHIP code at checkout! If you have questions, please don't hesitate to reach out.

And if you're local and would rather pick up your orders, we look forward to seeing you at the farmers market or here at the farm soon!

Whether you've been with us for years or have recently joined our farm community, THANK YOU so much for your support. We wouldn't be here without you.

The Bigger Impact of Buying Local

I've shared pretty openly about how shopping from our farm has directly impacted our family, but what you may not see is just how many other local families and businesses your food dollars benefit when you shop with us.

The positive impact our community is huge, and the more our farm has grown we've been able to help many other businesses grow and expand right along with us!

- Our baby chicks and turkey poults are hatched by a family owned hatchery in Cincinnati. Not only do they provide healthy chicks for us, but we don't have to rely on shipping them through the mail - we can go pick them up the day they hatch.


- We purchase our non-GMO feed from a local Amish family. Mark has been mixing the feed for our animals for the past 6 years. We've watched him go from operating out of one small pole building by himself to adding his brother full-time to the business, hiring office staff, a delivery driver, and having to build multiple new buildings to keep up with demand.

- Our feed maker purchases the non-GMO grains for our feeds locally. By purchasing feed from him, we are also supporting other area farmers.


- Our hay is raised by and purchased from local farmers.

- We purchase our basic supplies like new heat lamps for the brooder, buckets, shavings, etc. from a locally owned feed store.

- The piglets we raise into finished hogs are purchased from local farmers. We have a few farms we support to get as many pigs as we need.

- Our beef animals are bred, born and raised without ever leaving our county. We have a farmer friend who owns a herd of grass-fed Angus cattle. He cares for the Mama cows, bull and baby calves, then once the calves are weaning age, we purchase them.

- When it comes time for processing, all 4 processors we use for poultry, beef and pork are local family owned operations.

- Even the custom labels we have put on our chicken products are designed and sold by a family business in Cincinnati!

- Our fencing and building project materials are purchased from locally owned businesses, and we hired local building and concrete crews to help with our barn.


- When we need tires (seriously, there are so many tires around here) or mechanic work done, we have wonderful local businesses who know us and take great care of us.

- Those amazing photos you see of our family and farm were taken by local photographers - either Hollie from Holden Photography or Anna from Anamedia.

- Our soaps and tallow balms are made with Twisted Violet Homestead in Hillsboro and Butterhide in Jackson, both women owned small businesses.

- The chai tea, canned goods and kombucha you see in our store are made by Red Holler Homestead in Chillicothe and Fair Ridge Farms in Hillsboro, both local crafters who share our vision for a sustainable local food system.

- Our taxes are done by a local accountant, we bank locally, we use local lenders when we've needed financing, and we partner with other local small businesses for our needs whenever possible.

- The dollars we earn by selling our products allow us to purchase food we don’t produce for ourselves from other local farms.

I've probably even missed some of the directions your dollars move out into the community after purchasing from us, but I hope this helps you see just how big of an impact you're making! 

One of these days I'll go even bigger picture into the price of farm land, supply and demand plus pressure from developers and foreign investors, but that's probably a little much for this post. :)

Thank you for being a part of what we're doing. We are so incredibly grateful for your support, and allowing us to support the growth of so many other small businesses in our community too.

If you’re not part of our community yet, we would love to have you! Add your name and email address below and you’ll be in. And don’t worry - you can expect emails like this about every week or two, we’re too busy to spam your inbox with nonsense!