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Our farm is now closed for business.

From the bottom of our hearts, we thank you: for caring about how food is produced, for caring about farmers, and for caring about us.

liquidation sale

Sunday November 10, 2024 10:00 am - 2:00 pm

131 Indiantown Farm Lane, Centreville MD 21617

No pre-sales. Cash, credit card, Venmo accepted.

Preview of items for sale:

Vehicles

2007 Honda Ridgeline RTL-4WD - great farmer’s market vehicle!

1998 Mazda B2500 truck: doesn’t pass inspection, but has been a great farm utility vehicle for the last 7 years! Runs daily for chores

2020 Delta ES 16’ Bumper-mounted Stock Trailer with swing gate, electric braking system. Excellent condition (stock photo)

Poultry Items

Poly-Tex 20x36’ Mobile Range Coop with roll up sides, gravity-fed bell drinkers, 120 gallon water tank on trailer

Poultry Man 35″ Plucker with door and receiving table + 41″ Rotary Scalder with side table. (This is top of the line equipment, capable of handling turkeys. Will handle 8-10 chickens at a time)

Other Broiler equipment:

  • Chamber Vacuum Sealer

  • 5’x10’ Suskovitch-style Chicken tractors

Equipment for Laying Hens

10x18’ Mobile Coop w/Hen Gear Roll-out Nest Boxes for 200 birds, Removable polycarbonate windows, automatic door. (Built 2023)

POWER SCRUB Egg Washer: Model II: a GAME CHANGER for your egg enterprise

Other Layer Equipment:

  • Premier 1 Electric Poultry Net: 164’ rolls, gates

  • Premier 1 Intellishock 20 Energizers with Deep Cycle Marine Batteries and Solar Panels (5 units available)

  • Nylon Fence stakes

  • Plastic Egg Flats

  • Paper egg cartons (new)

  • Chicken Crates

  • Water Heater

  • Slip-on Boot Covers

Stock Tanks: 50-gallon and 100-gallon (2)

Vegetable Production Equipment

  • 2005 BCS 853 Walk-behind Tractor with tiller, power harrow, flail mower, rotary plow and cultivator attachments

  • Paper Pot Transplanter System

  • Stainless Steel Commercial Salad Spinner

  • Jang JP5 5-row speed-seeder and assorted rollers

  • Quick-cut Greens Harvester

  • The Inferno rolling flame weeder by Neversink Tools

  • Double Wheel Hoe

  • Pik-Aid Cart (holds 5/8 bushel baskets)

  • 40” x 24” 2-Basin White Freestanding Utility Tub with Drain (2)

  • Assorted hand tools

  • T-posts (6’, 8’)

  • Wire hoops

  • Ground Cover - 12’ woven

  • Paper mulch

  • Attached-lid, flip-top stacking/nesting totes, various sizes

  • Plastic 1.25 Bushel Baskets, ventilated with handles

  • 5/8 bushel baskets

  • Hard-bottom wooden baskets (1/4-peck, 1/2-peck, peck, 1/2-bushel)

  • Stacking/nesting tomato trays

  • Bread trays

  • Metal Racks, wheeled and fixed bottom

  • Seed-starting trays and pots of various sizes

  • Quart, pint, 1/2-pint paper boxes

  • poly bags

Cooling Equipment

  • Assorted coolers

  • Small Freezers (2)

  • Glass-topped display chest freezer

  • Upright freezer

  • Apartment-sized refrigerator

about us

A selection of delicious heirloom tomatoes

Our hens enjoy catching crickets on lush pasture

Our hens enjoy catching crickets on lush pasture

Where Pigs Fly Farm provides fresh regeneratively grown produce and GMO-free pastured eggs and poultry to families, restaurants and retailers on the Eastern Shore and Annapolis region. We offer onsite programs and education for those wishing to learn about regenerative farming and create a greater understanding of and connection to their food.

Our Mission To build healthy soil through rotational grazing practices and organic growing methods that:

  • Promote the health of our animals

  • Produce nutrient-dense food

  • Restore the ecology of the land that we steward

  • Bring community together

Our Vision is a community that understands the issues and consequences of agricultural practices and its impacts on ecosystem health, nutritional quality of food; We envision a community where conscious consumers make well informed choices to support an agricultural workforce earning a living wage, and return the agricultural system to balance for people and the planet.

Our Core Values We commit to making conscious and informed choices rooted in these values:

  • Produce high quality, nutrient-dense food, free from harmful chemicals

  • Build soil health and deep root systems

  • Foster healthy, biodiverse habitat on the land we steward

  • Deliver authentic educational experiences in farming, ecology, and nutrition

  • Create a workplace culture of respect, dignity, diversity, and inclusion

  • Be part of the solutions (not part of the problems) of climate change and environmental degradation.

  • Work hard…but have fun!

our methods

We use integrated pest management systems and the rotation of plants and animals to combat pests and diseases holistically.  

We are adamantly non-GMO.  Our animals only consume organic feed and we source organic seed wherever possible.  

We are not certified organic, however we meet or exceed organic standards in all that we do.  We don’t want harmful chemicals in our bodies, so we don’t put them on our food.

At WPFF we are committed to making every day of our animals’ lives healthy and providing a setting where our animals can express their true nature. Our animals are raised on rotational pasture systems, enjoying fresh air 365 days per year with clean, dry shelter from the elements when they so desire. 

We Believe

... the integration of livestock and crops is essential to truly regenerative agriculture. 

... a healthy farm ecosystem requires the connection of plants, animals, soil and microbiomes.

... in farming beyond certified organic standards.  

 ... that every animal on our farm deserves to live as nature intended: scratching for insects, grazing on fresh pasture, and digging in the soil.

MEET THE FARMERS

Brian Knox has been garden-farming for his family and neighbors for more than 30 years. In 2014, as part of the Future Harvest Beginner Farmer Program, he started producing vegetables and eggs for sale. He believes that the intention and the energy with which the food is grown, processed and prepared carries through to the meal on the plate and the nourishment that it brings. Brian knows that all organisms and the systems that they form, are interconnected. He has a special connection to the soil and plants and one of his most valuable farming skills is his ability to stop and listen to what the soil is telling him. Off-farm he is a professional forester and runs a natural resource consulting firm: Sustainable Resource Management, specializing in forest stewardship, invasive species management and education.  

Jennifer Vaccaro infuses every task on the farm with her genuine love of animals and her passion for regenerative agriculture.  She believes that good healthy food is the best medicine and that we should all be the change we wish to see.  With that in mind, she is living out her desire to bring the food system back into balance with nature.  In her off-farm life Jennifer is a landscape architect specializing in conservation landscapes, rain gardens and other rainscaping practices.  Her approach to both design and agriculture is heavily influenced by a commitment to restoring and preserving natural spaces.  She strives to find creative ways to integrate beautiful native plants into the landscape, providing aesthetic value for people, and habitat value for pollinators, birds and beneficial insects.    Jennifer is never happier than when she has soil on her hands and her dogs by her side.    

watch the video clip below featuring our farm on Maryland Farm and Harvest

Where Pigs Fly Farm, along with our most famous residents the Eco-Goats, was featured on Maryland Public Television’s Maryland Farm and Harvest program!