Lily the sheep looking over the pasture fence on a summer afternoon — This is Lily. She doesn’t lay eggs, and she isn’t for sale!

We can’t believe it’s August already. The summer has gone by so quickly—it feels like we were setting up the brooder a couple of weeks ago, and here we are already past the halfway point of the market season. Things are going great out on the farm.

If we haven’t met yet: we’re North Foster Farm, a small family farm in Foster, Rhode Island. We raise chickens on grass, move them to fresh pasture regularly, and feed them grain that’s free of GMOs. We think that’s how chickens should be raised—and we think you can taste the difference.

This week we moved another batch of chicks out of the brooder and onto pasture, which is one of our favorite days of the season. They spend their first few weeks indoors under heat lamps, and once they’re fully feathered they graduate to the field. From then on they live in mobile pens that we move onto fresh grass every day.

Vendor tents set up in the field at Tilted Barn Brewery — Wednesday evening at Tilted Barn in Exeter

Our freezers are fully stocked, and right now we have the whole lineup on hand:

Eggs by the dozen
Whole chickens
Cornish hens
Boneless breasts
Bone-in thighs
Tenders
Drumsticks
Wings
Chicken sausage (maple breakfast and sweet Italian)
Livers

Everything is available at all three of our weekly farmers markets. We’d love for you to stop by, say hello, and see what we’ve got.

Summer Market at Tilted Barn:
- Wednesdays
- 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
- Tilted Barn Brewery, One Hemsley Place, Exeter, RI
Scituate Rotary Farmers Market:
- Saturdays
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
- The Village Green, 46 Institute Lane, North Scituate, RI
Foster Farmers Market:
- Sundays
- 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
- Shady Acres Diner, 164 Danielson Pike, Foster, RI

We’re also getting close to something a lot of you have asked us about: delivery. If you’re interested, please send us an email and we’ll get you more information. We’ll publish full details on the website soon.

Vendor tents lining the Village Green in North Scituate — Saturday morning on the Village Green in North Scituate

This was our first year selling our own chicken, and honestly, we weren’t sure what to expect. What means the most is how many of you came back to tell us how it tasted—and then bought more. If you’re old enough to remember chicken before it became a “manufactured” product, you probably know what we mean. As we like to say, pasture-raised chicken tastes like chicken.

Thank you to everyone who has supported our farm this year. We just can’t say “thank you” enough. We’ve got more good things coming soon!

— James and Jim

August Update

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