breeders of pigment & bloom
Hello & welcome! We ship to all 50 states through the National Poultry Improvement Program (OH NPIP-1592).
UPDATE: Thanks for a great year in heritage breed stock! 2026 is completely sold out. Offerings for 2027 will be posted by Thanksgiving. We will run a one-day discount on gift cards on Black Friday (with an early release day for certificate holders).
NPIP-certified breed stock pre-sales open Winter Solstice, December 21st.
Gift Certificates
Kraut Creek non-gmo and New Country Organics LOW-PUFA
premium fresh feeds
Miami Valley Herd Share
we grow groceries
We maintain a drive-through farm store near the corner of Dayton Yellow Springs Road and Trebein Road, offering eating eggs year round (chicken, quail, and duck as available) to the general public as well as butter, cream, and milk for our private dairy herdshare. We offer meat shares for low-PUFA organically-managed pasture-raised poultry, beef, and pork once or twice per year. And we sell the feed we use on the farm right off the pallets we pull from for our livestock— New Country Organics, Kraut Creek, Thorvin Kelp, and a variety of Fertrell nutri-balancers. Come and see us!
We steward an historic 1805 stone farm with functioning springhouse, smokehouse, and rare prairie fen— nearly 70 acres of organically-managed pastures and diversified regenerative practices that stack fucntions and build our soils.
Our Program
“We live by the seasons under a big Ohio sky, stewarding a closed line of very special Marans towards deep pigmentation and heavy bloom. This requires intense selection pressure, a commitment to ‘cull the dull and keep the deep’ in every generation. It’s slow scholarship.”
Brooke Blackmon Bryan, Crosshatch Farm
Read more About Us
From the Blog
Sometimes the socials just don’t let us tell the whole story. We elaborate here!
- On Beginnings, or Being a Beginner
This is our first year keeping cows— dairy cows. Midsummer nights stretched out long in front of us as we learned their mannerisms and gestures. Slowly, day by day, we built some order into the chaos and established routines. And with them, some trust. - ‘Growing Right’ Oral History Project with the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association
the Growing Right Project brought together methods from oral history, folklife documentation, and documentary arts to chart the life and movement histories of the farmers, growers, groceries, and food systems advocates who have helped to build an ecological food and farm system in Ohio
Chicks
Hatching Eggs
