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Funky Chicken Farm is your Palm Bay, Melbourne, Vero, Cocoa, Kissimmee, central Florida source for chicks of all types of poultry and adult birds when available, live poultry only. We also sell composting worms, worm composters, Growboxes, local honey, farm fresh eggs, heirloom seeds, rabbits, and offer classes and workshops on how to create a very productive web of life in your own backyard. We are located close to I-95 at the west end of Palm Bay Rd, to Minton Rd, then just a joggle north on Minton to 3510 Hield Rd. See map link on menu.
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June 13, 2013 Farm Update
Hello Friends,
AVAILABLE NOW Fresh Rabbit. Not frozen... call Suzanne at 321-505-4066.
May was certainly a bustle of activity for many people. And June is a welcome transition to a calmer more leisurely pace. Here at Funky Chicken Farm we are exploring new ways with food, particularly fermentation. These foods are alive with enzymes that assist the digestive process and they will also lessen the craving for sugary foods. Think Kefir, Yogurt, Goats Milk Chevre, Pickles, Mead, Sauerkraut, Kombucha, Daikon Radish and Carrots together....and more! Vegetables that are sliced, grated, and slivered become zesty in just four days in a salty brine. Salt equals minerals to the body and the enzymes help allow our bodies to absorb them. These foods are easy to create in your own kitchen. A few canning jars, purified non-chlorinated water, an airlock and high quality salt such as Real Salt from Utah, are all that is needed to create fermented vegetables in your own kitchen... We will be sampling these types of foods!
Suzanne will be hosting the first ever WILD FERMENTATION class this Saturday, June 15, at 1 pm. Cost is $15 per person. RSVP at 321-505-4066
Recommended is the book Wild Fermentation by Sandor Katz.
Free talk at West Melbourne Library Wednesday June 12. Suzanne Richmond and Andrew Malone from Funky Chicken Farm will be giving a free talk at West Melbourne Library this Wednesday at 6:30 pm. Andrew will be doing most of the talking on the subject of Raising Backyard Poultry. Come and bring your questions!
This Weekend at the farm:
Chicken 101 Class June Saturdays at 11am $10 rsvp with Andrew at 321-505-4227
Growbox Workshop June Fridays at 11am with Suzanne $35 RSVP with Suzanne at 321-505-4066
Wild Fermentations, Saturday June 15 at 1pm. $15. RSVP with Suzanne at 321-505-4066
See the menu bar for more about our weekend and weekday classes and workshops and you can sign up online if you prefer.
Farm Etiquette
When visiting any farm, its a good idea to practice farm etiquette. It is our experience that a lot of urbanites don't understand farm life. So here are some guidelines when planning a visit to a farm. Always call before visiting a farm. Farmers are busy people and want to be available for you when you arrive. Generally speaking, farmers will not allow people to go wandering about the farm without an escort. A farm is not a petting zoo so don't expect to be able to show up and be able to handle the chicks or other farm animals. Yes, we know you want to! Farmers are busy people and will schedule a special day for tours in which you can pet and handle the chicks, rabbits, goats. Please leave any pets at home. Dogs especially, and children running, will stress out the farm animals. Please do not smoke cigarettes at the farm. Certain vegetable plants can contract diseases from the smoke. ALWAYS call before coming to the farm. Farmers will set up a time for your visit. KNOW what it is you want. Do your chicken research before hand. Check our availability list below. We can help you make your final decisions. Be prepared to make your purchase and always bring a box or carrier with a closeable lid in which to take home live animals. Turn off the cell phone. Always beware of and respect fences and barriers. They can shock you as they are electric. Remember, the farm is our home, from which we make our livelihood. Please respect that by not wandering around without an appointment or escort, or picking our food. These rules apply to any farm you may be interested in visiting. Following these rules will help make your visit less stressful for everyone, including the livestock and farmers!
We have chicken eggs available at our farm stand as well as heirloom seeds, honey, tie dyed clothing, soaps, balms, Blue Oyster Mushroom Dowels, and more. Please always call before coming to the farm. Andrew deals with anyone wanting to purchase poultry at 321-505-4227
Suzanne was recently featured in a newspaper article on composting worms. Here is the link Composting With Worms Worm castings are the best source of soluble phosphorus which is necessary for fruit development, think tomatoes and peppers. Its easy to maintain a worm composter. One pound of Red Wiggler earthworms will be a good start and they sell for $30 per pound. A complete worm kit with worms, composter and bedding material is $70 and ready to go. Every order is freshly harvested and comes with an adequate amount of worm castings to keep worms happy for the ride home. Order with Suzanne at 321-505-4066. Pre orders can be picked up at the Brevard County Farmers Market every Thursday from 3-7pm, or at the farm.
Happy Gardening,
Suzanne
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POULTRY: Available now! Please bring a box or carriers when picking up poultry!
ALWAYS Call Andrew at 321-505-4227 to make appt to come to farm to purchase poultry.. Leave a message as to what you are looking for if he doesn't answer right away. He will contact you. Please call Suzanne for Growboxes, Worms, Rabbit, workshops and farm stand items at 321-505-4066
Chicks and Chickens Now Available:
Just hatched assorted female chicks.
24 Week old Brown Egg Laying Pullets (Just starting to Lay eggs!!!!)
2-3 week old Rhode Island Red, Red Sex Links chicks
8 week old Black Australorps, Golden Buffs, Buff Orpingtons, all brown egg layers, feathered, female, and ready for the coup.
11 week old Production Reds
9 week old Silkies, bantams, unsexed, assorted colors
PIGEONS !! Roller pigeons... dark colored.
Productions Reds of 3 months, 4 months, 5 months, and 6 months
Assorted Roosters
NOTE: Days old chicks need warmth until they are fully feathered.
New Items Listed !! Get an idea of all that we offer for sale at the farm. See menu bar Items for Purchase to order. Pay via Paypal, Visa, Mastercard. Some purchases must be picked up at the farm. Other purchases can be sent through the mail and even emailed thru Paypal.
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Funky Town Farm Stand is open to the public from 10 am to 6pm daily. We request that you call before coming to the farm as we often run errands or host workshops. We sell heirloom seeds, local honey, soaps, balms, tie dyed clothing, rabbit meat when available, eggs when available, Zone 9 Planting Chart, Growboxes, Worm Composters, the Growbox: Guide to Making Self-Watering Containers, Bunny Berries, Composting Worms, Hair Bandees, Scent Pots, Bee Feeders, Solar Cooker Plans. Please do not go wandering about the farm without the escort of Suzanne or Andrew. Please respect our privacy. Call us on the cell if you cannot see us or honk the horn.
Skin Balms that we make at the farm include Crusty Man Balm, Auntie Mae's Allover Beauty Balm, Lemongrass Bug and Beauty Balm, 'dual purpose', and NEW Ruthy's Granny Grease, Peaceful Patchouli, Southern Belle Magnolia and Orange Blossom scented balm. Skin balms are made with beeswax, coconut oil and olive oil, adn Vit E oil as a preservative.
Local Honey includes Wildflower and we have Royal Jelly and pollen sold in the farm stand we call Funky Town! And we also sell honey scented soap.
NEW Bug Master Bugg Off. Its an all natural bug repellant using essential oils of Lemongrass, Citronella, and Neem oil. Works on biting and burrowing bugs.
See more about our products at the Items For Purchase link on the menu bar
Growboxes
Want to have a garden but don't want to dig up the yard? Tired of spending lots of money to put in a garden and not getting good yields? Soil in Florida is sandy. It doesn't hold the amount of moisture or nutrients that veggie plants need to thrive. Suzanne came up with a design to create your own self watering container for growing awesome veggies. Growbox contains the nutrients and water and they don't wash away. They stay inside the box at the rootzone where nutrients need to be. Works great with worm tea as your nutrient source for an organic, closed system, food web which is Hydroganic. She teaches workshops and has a book on CD on how to make your own so you can make as many as you want! Give her a call to take a workshop at your convenience. 321-505-4066
Funky Chicken Farm is Andrew Malone, Poultry Master, and Suzanne Richmond, Growbox Gardener, Vermicomposter, sustainable living advocate, Small Farms networker, writer for Orlando Gardening Examiner, Freelance Writer for Demand Studios, E-How.com, GardenGuides.com, home brewer of mead, fabric dyer, dental assistant, computer chip maker. Located at 3510 Hield Rd. Melbourne, Florida 32904 MAP Check out the side menu bar for more interesting verbage, slide shows, a place to donate cash to the Andrew Benefit. See bottom of page at Items for Purchase.
Read 60+ articles on Central Florida Gardening and Small Farms at www.examiner.com and look up Suzanne Richmond for a complete list. You may also subscribe to receive articles as they are written.
See Menu Bar at left for other interesting pages.
June 13, 2013 Farm Update
Hello Friends,
AVAILABLE NOW Fresh Rabbit. Not frozen... call Suzanne at 321-505-4066.
May was certainly a bustle of activity for many people. And June is a welcome transition to a calmer more leisurely pace. Here at Funky Chicken Farm we are exploring new ways with food, particularly fermentation. These foods are alive with enzymes that assist the digestive process and they will also lessen the craving for sugary foods. Think Kefir, Yogurt, Goats Milk Chevre, Pickles, Mead, Sauerkraut, Kombucha, Daikon Radish and Carrots together....and more! Vegetables that are sliced, grated, and slivered become zesty in just four days in a salty brine. Salt equals minerals to the body and the enzymes help allow our bodies to absorb them. These foods are easy to create in your own kitchen. A few canning jars, purified non-chlorinated water, an airlock and high quality salt such as Real Salt from Utah, are all that is needed to create fermented vegetables in your own kitchen... We will be sampling these types of foods!
Suzanne will be hosting the first ever WILD FERMENTATION class this Saturday, June 15, at 1 pm. Cost is $15 per person. RSVP at 321-505-4066
Recommended is the book Wild Fermentation by Sandor Katz.
Free talk at West Melbourne Library Wednesday June 12. Suzanne Richmond and Andrew Malone from Funky Chicken Farm will be giving a free talk at West Melbourne Library this Wednesday at 6:30 pm. Andrew will be doing most of the talking on the subject of Raising Backyard Poultry. Come and bring your questions!
This Weekend at the farm:
Chicken 101 Class June Saturdays at 11am $10 rsvp with Andrew at 321-505-4227
Growbox Workshop June Fridays at 11am with Suzanne $35 RSVP with Suzanne at 321-505-4066
Wild Fermentations, Saturday June 15 at 1pm. $15. RSVP with Suzanne at 321-505-4066
See the menu bar for more about our weekend and weekday classes and workshops and you can sign up online if you prefer.
Farm Etiquette
When visiting any farm, its a good idea to practice farm etiquette. It is our experience that a lot of urbanites don't understand farm life. So here are some guidelines when planning a visit to a farm. Always call before visiting a farm. Farmers are busy people and want to be available for you when you arrive. Generally speaking, farmers will not allow people to go wandering about the farm without an escort. A farm is not a petting zoo so don't expect to be able to show up and be able to handle the chicks or other farm animals. Yes, we know you want to! Farmers are busy people and will schedule a special day for tours in which you can pet and handle the chicks, rabbits, goats. Please leave any pets at home. Dogs especially, and children running, will stress out the farm animals. Please do not smoke cigarettes at the farm. Certain vegetable plants can contract diseases from the smoke. ALWAYS call before coming to the farm. Farmers will set up a time for your visit. KNOW what it is you want. Do your chicken research before hand. Check our availability list below. We can help you make your final decisions. Be prepared to make your purchase and always bring a box or carrier with a closeable lid in which to take home live animals. Turn off the cell phone. Always beware of and respect fences and barriers. They can shock you as they are electric. Remember, the farm is our home, from which we make our livelihood. Please respect that by not wandering around without an appointment or escort, or picking our food. These rules apply to any farm you may be interested in visiting. Following these rules will help make your visit less stressful for everyone, including the livestock and farmers!
We have chicken eggs available at our farm stand as well as heirloom seeds, honey, tie dyed clothing, soaps, balms, Blue Oyster Mushroom Dowels, and more. Please always call before coming to the farm. Andrew deals with anyone wanting to purchase poultry at 321-505-4227
Suzanne was recently featured in a newspaper article on composting worms. Here is the link Composting With Worms Worm castings are the best source of soluble phosphorus which is necessary for fruit development, think tomatoes and peppers. Its easy to maintain a worm composter. One pound of Red Wiggler earthworms will be a good start and they sell for $30 per pound. A complete worm kit with worms, composter and bedding material is $70 and ready to go. Every order is freshly harvested and comes with an adequate amount of worm castings to keep worms happy for the ride home. Order with Suzanne at 321-505-4066. Pre orders can be picked up at the Brevard County Farmers Market every Thursday from 3-7pm, or at the farm.
Happy Gardening,
Suzanne
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POULTRY: Available now! Please bring a box or carriers when picking up poultry!
ALWAYS Call Andrew at 321-505-4227 to make appt to come to farm to purchase poultry.. Leave a message as to what you are looking for if he doesn't answer right away. He will contact you. Please call Suzanne for Growboxes, Worms, Rabbit, workshops and farm stand items at 321-505-4066
Chicks and Chickens Now Available:
Just hatched assorted female chicks.
24 Week old Brown Egg Laying Pullets (Just starting to Lay eggs!!!!)
2-3 week old Rhode Island Red, Red Sex Links chicks
8 week old Black Australorps, Golden Buffs, Buff Orpingtons, all brown egg layers, feathered, female, and ready for the coup.
11 week old Production Reds
9 week old Silkies, bantams, unsexed, assorted colors
PIGEONS !! Roller pigeons... dark colored.
Productions Reds of 3 months, 4 months, 5 months, and 6 months
Assorted Roosters
NOTE: Days old chicks need warmth until they are fully feathered.
New Items Listed !! Get an idea of all that we offer for sale at the farm. See menu bar Items for Purchase to order. Pay via Paypal, Visa, Mastercard. Some purchases must be picked up at the farm. Other purchases can be sent through the mail and even emailed thru Paypal.
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Funky Town Farm Stand is open to the public from 10 am to 6pm daily. We request that you call before coming to the farm as we often run errands or host workshops. We sell heirloom seeds, local honey, soaps, balms, tie dyed clothing, rabbit meat when available, eggs when available, Zone 9 Planting Chart, Growboxes, Worm Composters, the Growbox: Guide to Making Self-Watering Containers, Bunny Berries, Composting Worms, Hair Bandees, Scent Pots, Bee Feeders, Solar Cooker Plans. Please do not go wandering about the farm without the escort of Suzanne or Andrew. Please respect our privacy. Call us on the cell if you cannot see us or honk the horn.
Skin Balms that we make at the farm include Crusty Man Balm, Auntie Mae's Allover Beauty Balm, Lemongrass Bug and Beauty Balm, 'dual purpose', and NEW Ruthy's Granny Grease, Peaceful Patchouli, Southern Belle Magnolia and Orange Blossom scented balm. Skin balms are made with beeswax, coconut oil and olive oil, adn Vit E oil as a preservative.
Local Honey includes Wildflower and we have Royal Jelly and pollen sold in the farm stand we call Funky Town! And we also sell honey scented soap.
NEW Bug Master Bugg Off. Its an all natural bug repellant using essential oils of Lemongrass, Citronella, and Neem oil. Works on biting and burrowing bugs.
See more about our products at the Items For Purchase link on the menu bar
Growboxes
Want to have a garden but don't want to dig up the yard? Tired of spending lots of money to put in a garden and not getting good yields? Soil in Florida is sandy. It doesn't hold the amount of moisture or nutrients that veggie plants need to thrive. Suzanne came up with a design to create your own self watering container for growing awesome veggies. Growbox contains the nutrients and water and they don't wash away. They stay inside the box at the rootzone where nutrients need to be. Works great with worm tea as your nutrient source for an organic, closed system, food web which is Hydroganic. She teaches workshops and has a book on CD on how to make your own so you can make as many as you want! Give her a call to take a workshop at your convenience. 321-505-4066
Funky Chicken Farm is Andrew Malone, Poultry Master, and Suzanne Richmond, Growbox Gardener, Vermicomposter, sustainable living advocate, Small Farms networker, writer for Orlando Gardening Examiner, Freelance Writer for Demand Studios, E-How.com, GardenGuides.com, home brewer of mead, fabric dyer, dental assistant, computer chip maker. Located at 3510 Hield Rd. Melbourne, Florida 32904 MAP Check out the side menu bar for more interesting verbage, slide shows, a place to donate cash to the Andrew Benefit. See bottom of page at Items for Purchase.
Read 60+ articles on Central Florida Gardening and Small Farms at www.examiner.com and look up Suzanne Richmond for a complete list. You may also subscribe to receive articles as they are written.
