Shades of Green Farm

Our Farmers' Market Debut

Yesterday Sue and I (jules) set up a farmers' market booth for the very first time. The people at Bastrop 1832 Farmers' Market were wonderful! They helped us set up, loaned us equipment and told their repeat visitors that we were a new vendor selling great tasting chicken.... which, of course, is true, as those who have enjoyed them will attest to. For a first selling day, with one week to prepare our materials, we did pretty well~ we sold 10 chickens with several more customers claiming a chicken for next week, when they'll bring a cooler to take it home in.

At just around 100 degrees on a sunny, windy day, we came home a bit desiccated and feeling oh-so-happy in our dry skin.

Thanks to John and Annell who came down from Austin to give us congrats and bags (which is now on the check-off list). Thanks also to Erika, one of the market managers, who encouraged us to go for it right away and not wait, to Delores and Tracy, also market organizers, who offered advice (and bags!), and to Pati, from Bastrop Cattle Company, who has been supportive and encouraging from the beginning.

The Freedom Rangers are Here

These are our new birds and they taste terrific.  We have many of them and would like to clear out our freezers for more, so place your orders now folks.  These are plump juicy roasting chickens from the French Label Rouge breeding stock.  Julie has enjoyed raising them on our organic feed and we hope you will enjoy eating them.

These chickens are USDA certified and weigh about 5-6 pounds each and cost $3.75/lb.  We cook them 2 at a time to save on heating the oven and then we freeze the cooked meat in meal-size packets.

We've sold out of the Cornish Cross chickens and, from now on, we'll have the Freedom Ranger type breeds.  We're happier raising them since they're less lethargic and seem to enjoy running around the pasture.

Welcome to Our Farm!

Hey there!  Welcome to the Shades of Green Farm website.  We are Julie and Sue and we're chicken farmers.  We hope you'll become one of our customers and enjoy our healthy chickens.  Our chickens live on  green pastures and are fed organic feed from Coyote Creek Organic Feed Mill in Elgin.  Julie will write soon and tell you more about our farm and our family.

We have roasting chickens on sale now for $3.00/LB.  On June 12, we'll have USDA certified chickens for sale for $3.95/LB.  Our chickens average 5 LBs each so you can cook up several meals and only heat that oven once!  Our chickens are of French origin from Label Rouge breeding stock.  That means they are very tasty.. like a chicken!  Their meat is tender and textured, not mealy.  We hope you'll try them!