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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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May 22, 2013 Farm Update
Hello Friends,
Such nice and rainy weather has been wonderful for planting!! Time to plant peppers, cowpeas aka blackeye peas, collards, okra, squash, beans, eggplant, callaloo, mustard greens, papaya, peanuts, passionfruit, pumpkin, turnips and sweet potatoes.
Just added a NEW Rabbit link to the menu bar. See what rabbit breeds we have available there!
Also, NEW soaps have been added to the Items for Purchase link to the left.
This Weekend at the farm:
Chicken 101 Class Saturday May 25, at 11am $10 rsvp with Andrew at 321-505-4227
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 too! 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 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!
Be sure to check the link for classes and tours. Suzanne just updated the schedule.
We have chicken eggs available at our farm stand as well as heirloom seeds, honey, tie dyed clothing, and more. The Master Kit of Growbox, Worm Composter with 1 pound Red Wigglers, Planting Chart, Growbox Manual With Composter instructions, 7 packs of seeds is available for $110. Please always call to pre order and before coming to the farm. Suzanne at 321-505-4066...
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 neccessary 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:
18 Week old Brown Egg Laying Pullets (Will start to lay at about 24 weeks)
3 week old Americanas and Buff Orpingtons
4 week old Black Australorps, New Hampshire Reds, Golden Comets, Rhode Island Reds all brown egg layers, feathered, female, and ready for the coup.
1 week old Pearl colored Guineas
7 week old Silkies, bantams, unsexed, assorted colors
PIGEONS !! Colored pigeons... no specific breed
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.
Farm Tours Tours are being held for the general public on the following days:
TBD.... NOW scheduling Summer Tours for Kids on Tuesdays or Wednesdays. Call Suzanne
We offer a 2 hour tour of the farm to show people what we do and how we do it. Andrew discusses raising backyard poultry, goats, pigs. Suzanne takes you on a backyard journey of the circle of life including the garden, rabbits, earthworms, rich compost, marvels of bees, and Growbox gardening. We reserve the right to cancel the tour due to bad weather or not enough interest for that date. More dates will be added through springtime. See more at TOURs and Classes link at the left.
Cost is $6 per person and we have a 10 person minimum. RSVP with Suzanne at 321-505-4066
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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. 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.
May 22, 2013 Farm Update
Hello Friends,
Such nice and rainy weather has been wonderful for planting!! Time to plant peppers, cowpeas aka blackeye peas, collards, okra, squash, beans, eggplant, callaloo, mustard greens, papaya, peanuts, passionfruit, pumpkin, turnips and sweet potatoes.
Just added a NEW Rabbit link to the menu bar. See what rabbit breeds we have available there!
Also, NEW soaps have been added to the Items for Purchase link to the left.
This Weekend at the farm:
Chicken 101 Class Saturday May 25, at 11am $10 rsvp with Andrew at 321-505-4227
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 too! 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 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!
Be sure to check the link for classes and tours. Suzanne just updated the schedule.
We have chicken eggs available at our farm stand as well as heirloom seeds, honey, tie dyed clothing, and more. The Master Kit of Growbox, Worm Composter with 1 pound Red Wigglers, Planting Chart, Growbox Manual With Composter instructions, 7 packs of seeds is available for $110. Please always call to pre order and before coming to the farm. Suzanne at 321-505-4066...
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 neccessary 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:
18 Week old Brown Egg Laying Pullets (Will start to lay at about 24 weeks)
3 week old Americanas and Buff Orpingtons
4 week old Black Australorps, New Hampshire Reds, Golden Comets, Rhode Island Reds all brown egg layers, feathered, female, and ready for the coup.
1 week old Pearl colored Guineas
7 week old Silkies, bantams, unsexed, assorted colors
PIGEONS !! Colored pigeons... no specific breed
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.
Farm Tours Tours are being held for the general public on the following days:
TBD.... NOW scheduling Summer Tours for Kids on Tuesdays or Wednesdays. Call Suzanne
We offer a 2 hour tour of the farm to show people what we do and how we do it. Andrew discusses raising backyard poultry, goats, pigs. Suzanne takes you on a backyard journey of the circle of life including the garden, rabbits, earthworms, rich compost, marvels of bees, and Growbox gardening. We reserve the right to cancel the tour due to bad weather or not enough interest for that date. More dates will be added through springtime. See more at TOURs and Classes link at the left.
Cost is $6 per person and we have a 10 person minimum. RSVP with Suzanne at 321-505-4066
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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. 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.
