Scott and Bobbie Thomas

Thomas Pottery Farm is located in the upper part of Moore County just above the Westmoore Community.
Scott and Bobbie Thomas have a small farm in which they grow local produce, raise a few broilers each Spring and have several laying hens. Growing organic or as close to it as possible is their goal for produce and raising chickens.

By using mostly organic seed varieties they strive to grow heirlooms and Non GMO vegetables. Each season kitchen compost and composted manures are used to amend the soil.
Pest and disease is managed by checking plants daily and removing insects or diseased plant material by hand thus keeping these problems under control.

Chickens are treated with the utmost care. Using electric netting and a chicken tractor (laying and roosting house on wheels) they free range in grassy pastures.
As peeps, they are raised on organic chick starter containing all goodness with no antibiotics. Adult chickens are fed all grain laying pellets and organic feed containing flax, vitamins and probiotics. Added to their staple diet is occasional vegetable scraps, weeds, melons and pumpkins when in season. Pests are managed using garlic, diatomaceous earth and pine oil. Eggs are gathered daily and refrigerated.

Make plans to visit Thomas Pottery Farm to see their farm grow.

Friday, January 9, 2009

Planning the new harvest for 2009


The catalogs are pouring in the mail each day. It's time to take inventory of my seeds from last year and start deciding what to grow for this years crops. Which seed did well and so on. The best place I've found to order potatoes is Wood Prairie Farms, WOW are they the best! They have a small variety of other organic seeds too, the ones I've tried have also been excellent! This is a small family run business and are great to deal with. Give them a try this year I am sure you will be well satisfied.
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Anonymous said...

Thanks for your enthusiasm! We do the best job we can raising seed because we consider ourselves to be partners with our customers and we want you to succeed. There's a remarkable variation in the quality of seed out there and we want you to have access to the best.
Jim Gerritsen
Wood Prairie Farm
Bridgewater, Maine

January 15, 2009 at 9:07 AM

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