Mitchstead Farms

🐓 2026 Chicken and Turkey Pre-orders! 🐓

🐣With all the great support shown the last few years, we will be raising 200 meat birds this year.

🦃Limited number of Turkeys will be done - they take a long time and lots of space to grow!

🐥We will be doing 2 batches of meat birds this year, plus a limited number of Turkeys for Thanksgiving

🐣For those who would like to pre-order chickens or turkeys, please message us with the preferred date and choice of weights.

🐥All orders can be picked up at the farm, after 6pm (of choosen date) as fresh or we will be selling them frozen once orders have been filled.

🐥Whole chickens only 💲6️⃣ per lb and will be vacuum sealed!

🦃 Turkeys will be 💲6️⃣ per lb and in freezer bags

🐓🐓 IMPORTANT INFO 🐓🐓

🐔 Pickup for 1st batch will be July 15th

🐔 Pickup for 2nd batch will be September 2nd

🦃Turkeys will be ready Oct 2nd

🐔 approx weights for chickens 6-8lbs with some possibly smaller or bigger (please let me know approx. Weight you are looking for and we will do our best to accommodate)

🐔 If you are wanting hearts, feet, etc. Please let me know well in advance as these are extras we have to tell processor beforehand, plus an added cost to you.

🐔Hearts, livers & feet $6/lb

🐔 All birds are raised on Pasture grass and fed some grains (not organic) & garden scraps

🐔 Due to limited freezer space we do need orders picked up as soon as possible! Please make sure you are available for the date you choose. Especially with the turkeys!

🦃🦃 Deposits are NOT NEEDED to hold your birds! 🦃🦃

🐔Last batch of meat chickens go tomorrow!

🐔 Fresh birds can be picked up between thursday and Friday evening! We will be freezing all birds by the weekend!

🐔 Pastured raised, minimal grain fed, living outdoors in the fresh air!

🐔 $5/lb, vacuum sealed

🐔 Let us know how many you are wanting and approx. Weights

🐔 Weights will be on the higher 7 to 9lbs, some will be smaller and bigger

This is a local farm and they bring forward what everyone has been thinking!

Some of what we’ve shared has rubbed people the wrong way, and emotions run high when it comes to farming.
I want to say this as clear as I can, I’m not against farmers. I am one. Farmers come in every shape and size. Some grow flowers. Some make soap. Some sell veg at markets or run csa programs. Others raise pigs, chickens, cattle, or grain on an industrial scale. Farming wears a thousand different faces and every one of them matters.
But we can’t ignore how the public sees farming today. With the advent of the internet, videos spreading every day, numbers and stats being shared, more health related knowledge floating around, peoples perception has shifted. Doesn’t mean every farmer is guilty of it, but it does mean the publics concern is understandable. To the public eye, a chicken barn with tens of thousands of birds doesn’t look good. A pig barn over a manure lagoon doesn’t look good. A feedlot of cattle on cement eating corn and silage doesn’t look good. The sprays, glyphosate, atrazine, insecticides, fungicides, don’t look good either. That’s not an attack on the farmers who use these systems, it’s just the reality of how people see it.

And I get why it happens. There’s a demand for chicken, beef, and pork. Animals can’t all be raised in a picture perfect way like the public imagines. If they were, the outcry would be about cost, because food would be far more expensive. Chicken barns exist cause people want cheap chicken every day, not just seasonally. Pig barns exist cause pork has to be available year round and raised efficient enough to stay affordable. Feedlots exist cause beef demand outpaces what grass systems can provide, and finishing on grain gets animals to weight faster and cheaper. Herbicides and sprays exist cause grain can’t be managed at scale without them. And grain farms operate huge acreages cause demand is high and prices are low, so they need more land to make less per bushel. For now this is the system.

Farmers are doing their best to feed a hungry world with fewer farms and fewer people than ever before. That doesn’t make them bad people, it makes them families caught in a system that keeps squeezing tighter every year. The public rarely sees that side. What they see are headlines and videos that make big ag look like it’s only about profit. Thin margins and rising costs drive these systems, not greed. Most people trust farmers, but far fewer trust the way farming is done.

The future of farming can be one where farmers earn more, soils grow stronger, animals are healthier and happier, and the food on our plates is more nutritious.
Public trust in farming is one of the biggest conversations we can have right now. If this message resonates with you, please share it so more people can be part of the conversation. And feel free to add your thoughts in the comments — your voice matters.

Are you looking for extra hay to tide you over or make sure you have enough for winter??

We have lots of extra! Currently sitting outside in rows! Great for cows or horses. Not rained on, just dont have enough room in the coverall!

$45 per bale, we can load, NO DELIVERY!!!

Anyone wanting fresh beans ???

I have LOTS!

$4/LB
Fresh picked daily!
Stop by the farm or send me a message to reserve yours!