2 Birds Farm

23/11/2024

Busy morning at Brookside Farmers Market, but we are still fully stocked with lots of luscious Greens, Lettuce, Gold Ball Turnips, Potatoes, Cabbage, Chard, Daikons, Watermelon Radishes, Baby Pac Choi, Dill and more! 1.5 hours left! Come stock up for Thanksgiving!

23/11/2024

Thanksgiving bonanza at the Brookside Farmers' Market! We have a huge and varied harvest and would love to send folks home with some! From 9 am to Noon, Saturday the 23rd (tomorrow!) you'll find all sorts of local products and food! The market has moved inside HJs Community Center for the winter. You'll find the following on our tables (look for us in the room to the right, first thing in the door).
Lettuce, Spinach, Kale, Chard, Watermelon Radishes, Gold Ball Turnips, Purple Daikons, Baby Pac Choi, Mustard Greens, Gold Frill Mustard, Arugula, Hakurei Salad Turnips, Leeks, Sprouting Broccoli, Jalapenos, Potatoes (including some awesome Russets!), Fresh Dill, Cilantro, Parsley, Sage and Mint. And SO MUCH CABBAGE. We have tender green, lovely savoy, napa and brilliant red cabbage.
Other vendors will have additional veggies, including sweet potatoes, peppers, bread, meats, treats, mushrooms, eggs, honey and more. Hope to see lots of folks there!

30/04/2024

We're hiring! Katherine needs someone to help with the Goats On The Go JoCo grazing business from 16-24 hours a week through the season. Its a really fun, challenging and always different job where you'll get to work with goats! Please share widely- we're looking for someone who likes to work hard, learn hard, and who'll appreciate the unique (and by unique, we mean goofy, sweet, aggravating, entertaining) character of goats!

https://2birdsfarmkc.square.site/jobs

12/04/2024

Woohoo! The Brookside Market starts tomorrow! We'll be there with lots of transplants for your garden, beautiful spinach, spring garlic, and greens! Happy day!

https://www.brooksidefarmersmarket.com/home

22/03/2024

Good afternoon! Two Birds Farm is in need of a couple of appliances and we're wondering if any of you have a refrigerator or microwave you'd love to get rid of?

They don't need to be fancy, just functional and we're happy to pay/ pick up at your convenience! We use the fridge for egg storage and crew food and the microwave for all of us, so we'd be grateful!

(Back story on the fridge- the mice in the barn ate the wiring and nested under it over the winter : / This time we're going to close it off with hardware cloth, plus we got some really hungry feral cats for the farm!)

Message me if you have anything we could use! Thanks!

18/03/2024

There are babies everywhere! In the last three days, 9 moms kidded, all but two of them went really well. What lovely and lively little creatures they are!

15/03/2024

Sometimes in the evening our neighbor inflates her balloon and takes off. It's pretty magical.

15/03/2024

The big high tunnel has a new lid on it and it is planted! Fennel, swiss chard, kale, here we come!

02/03/2024

This weather is just crazy. Not complaining, but weird...

Usually, this time of year, we're stressing about our greenhouse heating costs from February and hoping March will be a little better than just COOOOLLLD. Instead, we're just about giddy about our low propane costs and we're warning the transplants to 'SLOW DOWN" so they don't get too big before we're ready for them! Laura keeps shuffling through her seed packets and, after that last blast of cold, finally decided it is a good time to get seeds in the ground ahead of next week's rain.

And, pregnant goats- last year we had several born into really bitter cold; the first born in 2023 was Lucky. His mom, Woo Two, kidded him first and then was occupied with kidding two more in the early morning bitter chill. When we found him, he was on the ground so cold we thought he was dead; we rushed him into the germination chamber (warmest space on the farm), wrapped him in a heating pad and rubbed him warm. (He's now big, sweet and sassy and fully worthy of his name!) We had others born into freezing conditions, the seed chamber was used a couple times to warm up brand new babies.

This year, the does are panting in the heat, blowing their coats out, and lying in the shade trying to cool off. We should start seeing kids hitting the ground in the next few days; it will be fun to see them shake their heads, get up on their long and wobbly legs, and start to nurse in a more temperate environment.

Farming is always about managing as much as you can through good planning, good practices, and long hard hours and then rolling as best you can with what nature hands you. We're hoping, as always, for a good and mild year. It is always an adventure to be a farmer and (most days) we can't imagine any other way of living.

26/02/2024

Oh it's going to be a busy spring! The greenhouse is starting to get kinda full, our pregnant goats are also busting at the seams, the chicks think they are ready to take on the world. We're looking forward to a new season!

11/01/2024

We've got two herds of goats ready to tackle your challenging landscapes!

Talk about a cliffhanger! Look how well these goats cleared this hillside!😱

A big thanks to Goats On The Go® at RoyAn Ridge Farm LLC, serving Iowa City, Coralville, and Cedar Rapids for this awesome before and after. 👏

Find them or an affiliate near you at https://www.goatsonthego.com/affiliate-directory