Chicken Opera

Fabulous fowl, eggs, fruit, jams, jellies

The word Opera translates to work in Latin. When we hear the word today, Opera conjures images and sounds of dramatic musical work. In an opera there are arias, choruses, stories of love, comedy, and tragedy. For us, our farm is an opera. Nature is the stage, we are the singers hard at work acting our chosen parts. We are city folk turned farmers without much of an audition or experience, just the desire and opera sized ambition to give it a whirl.

As the curtain rises this season we continue the dramatization of love, comedy, and the inherent tragedy of opera. We have raised chickens for eggs for many years and can’t imagine a farm without them. They are colorful, comic birds befitting a part in our opera. We also have a chorus of weird ducks, comic guard geese, sweet quail, and charming turkeys. Our long-term goal is to establish a berry and fruit farm, but in the interlude between planting and fruition, chickens, and their brethren, are our operarios, our workers and, a great tragedy, one of our delicious products.