Please order eggs here. Fruit and nuts are seasonably available and will be listed here. Check back often! See below for pork and chicken pricing.

 

When our hens are happily laying, we are selling eggs! We do not force winter laying by keeping lights on them, so you will notice that egg production is reduced during the winter. Everyone deserves a vacation and winter is rest time for our girls. They still lay eggs, but not as prolifically as they do in spring, summer and fall.  We also sell delicious duck eggs from our Welsh Harlequins. 

 

Welsh Harlequin ducks offer a unique opportunity to eat duck eggs without that "gamey" taste. WH ducks prefer to spend their days waddling about the pasture foraging for seeds and grass, dandelions, worms and insects, and berries. Unlike pond ducks, they do not eat fish, frogs, snails, etc. 

 

Because of this, our WH duck eggs have a very similar taste to chicken eggs with one main difference: they are very rich tasting. We find that a whole duck egg omelet is kind of like a big slice of chocolate cake - a little too rich for breakfast! We usually mix our hen and duck eggs for a super healthy (and high in iron) meal. 

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Wondering why you should buy Belle Vie Farm eggs, pork and chicken? Our hens and ducks are free-range during the day on pasture and in forest. Our Tamworth pigs roam the forest all day and are rotated in their forest pastures throughout the year. 

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Our pigs, hens, and ducks eat what they want and need (we also supplement with commercial feed and our own table scraps). We have chickens on traditional pasture (with our fiber goats and donkeys) and pigs and chickens in our silvopasture (forest pasture). The USDA defines silvopasture as the deliberate integration of trees and grazing livestock operations on the same land. For pricing information on our pork and chicken meat, please email Shelley@BelleVieFarm.org.

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Belle Vie Farm, along with its next door property, has a total of 34 acres. About 25 of those acres are in forest. With a vision of preserving our area's woodland while simultaneously pursuing farming, we have chosen to integrate agroforestry into our practices.

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Our food forest encompasses the most visible part of our farm and includes peach, plum, persimmon, apricot, cherry, fig, kiwi and pomegranate trees. We also harvest wild fruit trees/vines such as black cherry and muscadine grape. Our berry bushes include wild blackberry, cultivated varieties of blueberry and elderberry. We even harvest berries from the invasive autumn olive bushes growing on our farm. Harvesting the berries helps reduce the spread of these highly invasive plants - the berries make a delicious, tart and sweet jelly!

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We are beginning to harvest pecans and black walnuts as well, although these are not yet for sale.

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Both properties are in the a watershed, meaning our properties are an integral part of OWASA's drinking water. We take great care to use no pesticides on our crops or in our food forest. The USDA supports agroforestry within watersheds: within a watershed, agroforestry practices can resemble a living patchwork quilt that connects headwater forests through agricultural lands to urban areas... providing cleaner water for communities - both locally and downstream - and other public benefits.