And so it begins...

Silkie and June

After three and a half years of "Farming in the City" as Quarter Acre Farm, it's time to make the move to "greener pastures".  Welcome to Shepherd's Moon Farm.

It all started with four chickens- Sally, Jayne, April Mae, and June.  Bucking the trend of "urban chicken" farmers around the country, we built a coop much larger than we needed- and the urge to find the "right breed" of chicken for us began.  Cochins, Bantams, Orpingtons of different colors, Wyandottes, Marans, and what we suspect was a Langshan rooster all filled our space.  And of course, the eggs!  Eggs of all colors, except the blue we had hoped for from our first Ameraucana.  We've since gotten our blue and chocolate brown egg layers, and will be looking for a heritage breed for pastured meat birds, as well as expanding our layer flock further.

Butterscotch

And finally the sheep.  Our first lamb Clover came from New Moon Farm Goat Rescue, and her companion Thistle from a breeder.  Deciding we wanted a smaller, multi-purpose breed with a fleece for spinning, we sourced our flock of twelve Icelandic sheep.  We have been grazing them on large private subdivisions "in the city",  courtesy of a few landowners who wanted to minimize their mowing, but it's time to move to a place we can build infrastructure and minimize the extraneous work of "portable farming".  It's been over a year of searching Craigslist and Farmlink, but we found it!

You can "like" us on Facebook. Just search for Shepherd's Moon Farm. We'll provide updates on farm progress and new additions as we work towards Spring 2012. 

Lydia