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 9/3/2010 - NVPG
Egg Industry damage control (published in USA Today): "The chickens live in 27.7-inch-by-22.6-inch cages, eight to a cage. The cages are 19 inches tall, says [redacted], the farm's founder. "I made them extra tall because I wanted them to have more room." The six rows of cages are stacked on top of each other, in lines 277 cages long." This "farm" exploits 1M chickens. The article also reports that caged birds are 400% more likely to have salmonella infections.
9/3/2010 - Briarmead
It was butchering day for our summer flock of Pekin ducks last Friday, August 27th. Our free-ranging ducks looked well-fattened and filled out nicely, weighing in at 4 1/2-5 1/2 pounds each. We have a limited number of fresh-frozen ducks available for purchase at $4.50/lb.; liver and heart for making duck pate is included in this weight and price. Contact Briarmead Farm to reserve your succulent whole Pekin duck now!
8/31/2010 - NVPG
Egg Recall reaches half-BILLION. Salmonella is transmitted via rodent feces in chicken feed; does it surprise you to learn that the mega producer responsible for the outbreak had an _exemption_ from the FDA to require the vertically integrated feed operation to be inspected?
7/21/2010 - NVPG
Stumbled on this good Mainstream Media primer on the "High Cost of Cheap Food" - good to pass along to your skeptical friends.
7/5/2010 - Beatrix Farm
Hello Everyone,
Our next On Farm Day 2010 for picking up fresh chickens will be Saturday, July 17th from noon till 5pm. Place your orders now to reserve your chickens.
Dave & Regina Farinholt
Beatrix Farm
6/1/2010 - NVPG
"Label Rouge" method pastured Chickens are the traditional way to grow poultry so that the birds are healthy and the meat is more flavorful and finer grained. These birds are available in limited quantities from Second Wind and Notting Hill.
5/17/2010 - NVPG
Relatively low-level exposure to common pesticides -- probably from residues on foods -- doubles kids' risk of ADHD, Harvard researchers find.
Kids with higher-than-average levels of pesticide metabolites were about twice as likely to have ADHD as kids with undetectable levels of pesticide metabolites, find Marc C. Weisskopf, PhD, ScD, associate professor of environmental health and epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health, and colleagues.
"This raises concerns that ubiquitous pesticides may be contributing to the national burden of ADHD, which already is quite high," |
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Mark & Laura Accettullo
1654 Milldale Road
Front Royal VA 22630
(540) 636-3236
Contact by email
Region: Shenandoah Valley
Sub-region: Milldale
Briarmead produces Grassfed and Pastured:
 Beef
Lamb
Milk
Eggs
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Briarmead's teeming 150 acres near the banks of the Shenandoah River are the result of a life-long interest in procuring and producing high quality organic foods for the health and well-being of our family of eleven. Before "organic" was a label, Laura's grandmother was an earthy "backyard organic," and a loyal subscriber of Rodale's Organic Gardening. Grandma passed her deep passion for health foods on to us. We've been swimming against the tide of the "diet dictocrats" ever since then, carrying whole wheat bread sandwiches to school in the 1960's - an era when Wonder Bread was "cool". It was this upbringing that developed our interest in, and concern for, what commercially produced meats have done to the health of America. It led us to begin growing our own 100% grassfed beef and lamb - good clean meat, humanely raised and processed, that we could feel good about serving to our children, friends and guests. Since 1991, we have been providing this fine 100% grassfed beef and lamb to local health and taste-conscious customers.
As the years of raising our family on the farm passed, we naturally added a few other products to the mix. From our relationship with Joel Salatin dating back to 1992, we learned the genius of having chickens follow our livestock around the farm. Since that time our children have had their own egg business to run. These pastured eggs from free-range Barred Rocks and Rhode Island Reds are second to none and are available as weekly or monthly orders. For gourmands we additionally offer large, rich duck eggs; your baked goods will never be the same! (Additionally good to know is that duck eggs are usually well-tolerated by those who have chicken egg allergies.) Succulent roast duck may become a more common occurrence on your table with our free-range Pekin duck. Our thirteen-year-old son oversees the duck production as his ducks roam around the farm feasting on garden bugs and scraps and laying one large egg per day. Fresh, whole duck is available to order in season. Our two family milk cows, one a Jersey and the other a Jersey-Guernsey cross, provide bountiful, wholesome milk which is naturally high in butterfat and beneficial CLA's. We offer a cow share program so you, too, can enjoy the benefits of grassfed raw milk.
Our methods with all our "creatures great and small" conform to our deep respect for their nature; we derive great satisfaction from watching our animals contentedly do as nature intended in the great circle of life. Facilitating a win-win-win situation for the animals, our family as the producer, and you, the consumer, these methods also heal and enrich God's good earth, leaving our small corner of the world better, we hope, than when we found it. (Make that a win-win-win-win situation!) |
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