Maple Brook Farm - Virginia

Maple Brook Farm - Virginia Traditional agriculture. Forestry. Livestock. Agri-Tourism. Established 2014.

This snow cover is a perfect time to start burn (not bun 😂) piles that have brush from way back last summer stacked in t...
01/12/2025

This snow cover is a perfect time to start burn (not bun 😂) piles that have brush from way back last summer stacked in them. Low winds makes it the opportune time!

Fresh pasture for chickens and longer days. Warmer weather on the way. We’ll turn around soon and it will be summer. Ha...
03/29/2024

Fresh pasture for chickens and longer days. Warmer weather on the way. We’ll turn around soon and it will be summer. Have a great weekend!

With all of the rains headed in Friday night it was the perfect opportunity to torch the last remaining brush pile, for ...
03/09/2024

With all of the rains headed in Friday night it was the perfect opportunity to torch the last remaining brush pile, for now.

Part of farm life is getting attached to this or that animal and then eventually you have to let them go. We had to do t...
03/09/2024

Part of farm life is getting attached to this or that animal and then eventually you have to let them go. We had to do that today here at MBF. Bertha was a midget white turkey we got for Peyton about 8 years ago. Peyton was 5 back then.

Bertha survived and defended off a hawk attack several years ago. She literally looked like she’d been in a street fight. We prepared for her death. But it wasn’t to be. She fully recovered and lived another 4-5 years!

Over the last several months we’ve been noticing Bertha was slowing down. But she was still the boss. The grandmother of them all. No one messed with her. She was just a constant, always there. Minding her business but keeping things in order.

Tonight Peyton and I went out to close up the chickens and put out fresh water for tomorrow morning. There was Bertha. Eyes closed, gone. Out in her favorite spot, the outdoors. It’s the way she would have wanted to go. Not in the coop.

She was the absolute best!

We’re pretty sure there will be another midget white. Soon. It just seems right.

Fly high Bertha!

03/08/2024

All of the old h**p shavings and droppings are loaded into a bucket on the tractor then spread over the garden for the upcoming season planting. It will be tilled in over the next few days. Allowed to sit in the rain, then covered with w**d barrier to get ready for planting.

Since we exclusively use non GMO feed for our flock, there's no worry about nasty antibiotics in the fertilizer we use!

03/08/2024

We exclusively use h**p bedding in our hen house. It's far better than straw or cedar shavings. It lasts much longer and absorbs the droppings and odor better than anything else. And it's 100% biodegradable. Perfect for the garden!

We've been busy on the farm lately. With warmer weather beginning to pop up here and there it's been time to clean out t...
03/08/2024

We've been busy on the farm lately. With warmer weather beginning to pop up here and there it's been time to clean out the chicken coop. (It's one of the very few times I am a stickler about using a high grade mask. You can get some pretty nasty lung infections from the dusty f***l matter in a chicken coop)

We use that to fertilize our garden that will be planted in the coming weeks.

We till it all in and let nature take care of the rest!

They're back!! Yup, after losing many of our 2023 hens to foxes, a bear, and even a dog, (we were left with only 4 layin...
03/08/2024

They're back!! Yup, after losing many of our 2023 hens to foxes, a bear, and even a dog, (we were left with only 4 laying hens) we're back up to full speed and they are laying like crazy!

Find our MBF Hens On H**p farm raised eggs exclusively at Tuckahoe Antiques just north of Nellysford in Nelson County, VA

They're yummy! IYKYK!

They're back! After a bit of a respite our new laying flock is putting out the eggs! And you can get them, exclusively, ...
11/21/2022

They're back! After a bit of a respite our new laying flock is putting out the eggs! And you can get them, exclusively, at Tuckahoe Antiques in Nellysford. Hens on H**p, completely natural farm raised eggs on non GMO Sunrise feeds and natural pasture.

Ready, set, go!

11/20/2022

Purrs like a kitten now 🙂

Address

10297 Patrick Henry Highway
Roseland, VA
22967

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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+14342260295

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