Experience The Ridge

🔥 **June Grilling Time! Enjoy 15% Off All Your Favorites!** 🔥

Summer is here, and it’s time to fire up the grill! We’re offering a special 15% discount on all your grilling essentials: juicy chicken thighs, flavorful drumsticks, and tender chicken breasts.

🍗 Use code **GRILLING15** at checkout to save big!

Whether you’re planning a backyard BBQ or a family dinner, our high-quality chicken products will make your grilling season unforgettable. Don’t wait—this offer ends June 30th!

Happy grilling, everyone! 🌞

We still have 4 little Nigerian bucklings available and ready for a new home. PM me if interested.

OUR CHICKEN PARTY PACKS HAVE SOLD OUT! Boy, that was fast! Thank you everyone for all your support. We finished processing our chickens this week. It's always such a humbling experience for us. I'll be honest, the work is hard but it's so worth knowing where our food is coming from. It's not too late to stock up on chicken. Our next processing will be in October. You can check out the virtual farmstand to see what cuts we have left in stock. https://experiencetheridge.squarespace.com/virtual-farmstand/chicken

Chopped Kale Salad 🥗

We are harvesting the last of our kale to make room for fall crops. One of my favorite ways to use kale is in a chopped kale salad topped with our chicken from the farm. It makes a tasty side or light lunch made with pine nuts, dried currants, and shredded parmigiano reggiano cheese in a simple lemon & olive oil dressing, with a little bit of everything in each forkful! Sign up for our monthly newsletter for farm updates, recipes, events, and more. https://bit.ly/3rbOBUg

Salad

▢ 2 medium bunches kale (stems removed) finely chopped (about 8 cups) - I use a food processor...it's quick and easy
▢ 1 cup parmigiano reggiano cheese grated
▢ ¾ cup pine nuts
▢ ¾ cup dried currants

Dressing

▢ ⅓ cup lemon juice freshly squeezed
▢ ⅓ cup olive oil
▢ ½ teaspoon course celtic sea salt

In a large salad bowl, combine the chopped kale, cheese, pine nuts and currants. In a jar with a tight fitting lid, combine the ingredients for the dressing, then shake well. Pour the dressing over the salad ingredients and toss to coat.

Spring is in the air. It’s spa day at The Ridge.

Our girls got an upgraded mobile coop yesterday. They are happily enjoying all the bugs & grubs in the pasture. 🐛

Don't forget to take a look at our virtual farm stand (Link in bio) to keep track of what all we have in stock.

✨We also just added a new drop off location! Located right in the heart of downtown Columbia.✨

It’s so fun to see what’s popping up in the market garden. Today, we harvested a few carrots, snow peas, and baby kale for dinner tonight. Oh! And our broccoli is growing! I think tonight we’ll enjoy a kale salad with the carrots and peas.

After a year and half of planning, praying, preparing our hearts, it was so exciting to step outside this morning and see the first phase of our project underway! We can’t wait to be able to share this space with others.

We went into this day knowing that we would be processing our chickens today. Going into it, all our hearts I think were heavy. We prayed together as a team before we started. The process was humbling, and hard. We are all grateful, and thankful for this experience. There is a great respect for the animals when you know where your food comes from. Thank you everyone who supported us on this first batch!

Come be a part of our family and join in on the fun! We are looking for a an honest, HARD-WORKING candidate to help on the farm!

This is hard physical farm work. If you’re looking for more than just a J.O.B. and have a heart for animals, healing the land, and taking care of people then this may be the right fit for you!

Must be punctual, able to w**d wack, run a chain saw, and lawn mower. Able to work independently, and also as a team. Must be teachable and able to follow instructions.

Must be able to fix things, lift/carry 50 # bags of feed, and willing to jump in and do what it takes to get the job done!

Experience with sheep, cattle, and electric fences is a plus.

Full-time Salary plus benefits!

If this sounds good to you, please submit your resume to [email protected]

✨Hello September! The summer flew by fast and honey season is almost over. It’s almost time for the girls to start slowing down. This season was an interesting one for us. We were hopeful to have honey this year and the summer heat was not in our favor. It was too hot!!

Everyone seems to be doing fine. The girls are storing honey for the winter. I may have stole a little taste 🍯 😊!

We did lose another queen and so we had to combine the hive that you see behind me. There’s a trick to it though.

Newspaper 📰. You take a piece of newspaper and place it in between the two boxes. Once the bees eat through the newspaper to get to each other they’ve basically accepted each other as their sisters.🐝

Hey YOU! Have you not ordered your chickens yet?!?!

We are only a few weeks away from processing our freedom ranger chickens.

OUR PROMISE TO YOU:
❌ NO SOY
❌ NO CORN
❌ NO GMO’s
❌ ANTIBIOTICS OR VACCINES

EVER!!! 🙌🏼

Our chickens are raised on grass, eating bugs, the way the good Lord made them to be.

If you haven’t preordered already, you’ll want to do so now because our next batch will not be ready until late Spring of 2023.

Link in BIO to preorder.

It’s almost pumpkin pie season! We just harvested sugar pie pumpkins and they’re now available in the virtual farmstand along with a few more beans. Check it out!

https://www.experiencetheridge.com/virtual-farmstand

✨NOW HIRING! ✨

Come be a part of our family and join in on the fun! We are looking for an honest, HARD-WORKING candidate to help on the farm!

This is hard physical farm work. If you’re looking for more than just a J.O.B. and have a heart for animals, healing the land, and taking care of people then this may be the right fit for you!

Must be punctual, able to w**d wack, run a chain saw, and lawn mower. Able to work independently, and also as a team. Must be teachable and able to follow instructions.

Must be able to fix things, lift/carry 50 # bags of feed, and willing to jump in and do what it takes to get the job done!

Experience with sheep, cattle, and electric fences is a plus.

Full-time Salary plus benefits!

If this sounds good to you, please submit your resume to [email protected]

2 SLOTS NOW AVAILABLE for our raw milk cow share program. If you’re interested, you can get more details here: https://www.experiencetheridge.com/virtual-farmstand/p/cow-share-program

Feel free to pm me if you have questions. Please share. Come visit the farm, come taste the creamy milk 😊🥛! In fact, come milk with us! See how we do it, and ask any questions. We believe in transparency.

“You are what your food ate.” Are you wondering what we feed our chickens? Organic, non-GMO, corn-free, soy-free layer feed from .

We’re an open book here on the farm and believe in being transparent with our customers because you deserve to know where your food is coming from!

Now that the chickens are in their new home we need to name the mobile coop. The millennium falcon is already taken 😊 so we need ideas!!! What would you name this beast?

This past weekend we had our first “Painting with a View” day. The weather was perfect for gathering around and painting. We definitely will be doing more of these!

Our new shirts just arrived! What do you think?

Our VIRTUAL FARMSTAND is officially open! 🎉🎉

We’ve had a number of folks asking how to purchase our vegetables that are coming out of the market garden, and it’s SUPER simple!

1. Shop our selection of vegetables online.
https://bit.ly/3cb3hvH

We walk through our farm twice a week and take stock of which vegetables are perfect & ready to harvest. We then update the Virtual Farmstand every Sunday and Wednesday. This way we only harvest what is ordered, so there is zero food waste on our farm. It also means that you get the freshest food possible.

2. Choose how & when to receive your order.

During checkout, you have two choices on how to receive your order: pickup your order from our farm in Columbia, TN or choose one of our drop-off locations. Then you will choose when to receive your order: we have two pickup windows per week, Wednesday 4pm -7pm, Sunday 10am - 2pm.

3. Get ready to gather your veggies.

We have gotten your order and we harvest your food fresh the day of or day before your order is ready. We then pack it into paper bags and deliver it to your drop-off location or leave it out for you to pickup from the farm in Columbia, TN.

It’s that simple!

Thanks so much everyone! 👨🏻‍🌾👩🏻‍🌾

PASTURE RAISED CHICKEN PREORDER SALE! $7/lb

https://bit.ly/3pnaiwq

▪️ Chickens moved daily on fresh pasture
▪️ Raised without medicated feed or vaccinations
▪️ Supplemented with Certified Organic/Non GMO Feed

These birds are different! Their taste, their texture, and their lives are worlds away from the standard commercial chicken.

Our Freedom Rangers will grow to 10 weeks (instead of the 4-6 weeks from commercial farms) .

These chickens get moved to fresh grass daily. They experience sunshine, bugs, and grass like a chicken is supposed to. Supplemented with Organic NON-GMO feed. They enjoy a super happy healthy life.

Pasture raised chickens are known to be lower in fat and higher in Omega-3’s, also about 50% more vitamin A, 30% less saturated fat, and 28% fewer calories helping to make a far more nutritional product than you’ll find in a store.

We process them on-farm and the utmost care is taken in cleanliness, sanitation, and animal welfare.

Preorder today. We will notify everyone when a harvest date is set and will schedule farm pickup times.

$7/lb, Birds average 4-5 lbs per/bird, or approx $28-$35.

Chickens will be available first week of October.

Down payment is $20 to reserve one whole chicken
The rest of the balance is due upon pickup.

Chickens will be ready first week of October.

An end to a hard days work on the ridge. Thanks Whiddon Farms for some amazing ribs! What’s on your plate?

READY FOR ADOPTION!

Meet Lindsey Bucklingham!
Unregistered nigerian dwarf buckling. The dam is registered and the sire is unregistered. He has blue eyes and is not disbudded.

He’ll be ready to go the end of August. He’s absolutely beautiful!!! 😍

Message me if you’re interested.

So much fun stuff coming in out of the garden this week! I’m sure I’ll have a surplus. PM me if you’d like tomatoes or squash this week.

Thank you Whiddon Farms for completely grass fed/finished black angus. We are set for a while.

MARKET GARDEN POP-UP THIS WEEK!

We have mixed greens and herbs (buttercrunch, red romaine, parsley, and dill) as well as our heirloom beans.

Mixed greens - $4
Heirloom beans - $3lb

We’ll be delivering this week to Spring Hill and Franklin or you can pickup on the farm.

PM me if you’d like some!

POPUP TOMORROW & WEDNESDAY!

We will have heirloom beans (golden butterwax and black swan) ready for pickup at our farm or from our office in Franklin. $3/lb.

All of our produce is grown using no herbicides or pesticides, just sustainable farming techniques and a lot of LOVE! From our farm to your table.

PM me to schedule a pickup.

We have farm fresh lettuce bagged and ready to go today! They’re $4 a bag, and I only have 5 left. You can pick up today between 3-7pm at 119 SE Parkway Ct, Ste 230 in Franklin.

Message me if you would like one. I will update this post here once they’re gone.

UPDATE: Thanks everyone! All the lettuce is gone!