Witamy Farm produces an array of agricultural products in our integrated approach to sustainable farming. If you would like more information on any of our products, reach out to us on the Contact Us page – we would love to share with you!
Hay
Most of our acreage is seeded with a pasture-mix grass and alfalfa blend with makes for an incredible hay. No herbicides are used. The field is round baled three times a year. We keep a few bales for our livestock and the rest are sold locally.
Chickens
What you eat matters and therefore what your food eats matters. Our farm utilizes a variety of chicken breeds for the purpose of producing free-range eggs and hormone & antibiotic-free meat. Chickens can be seen roaming the farm eating grass, pests in the gardens and dangerous parasites in the alpaca fields. Because of this, the chickens enjoy a fantastically rich diet which makes for a nutritious eggs and meat.
Alpaca
If what you eat matters, what you wear matters too! Alpacas produce fiber that hypoallergenic, itch free, and odor resistant with a uniquely high thermal capacity for its weight. We send our fiber out to textile mills to produce roving (for spinning), yarn (for knitting) and finished items (hats, scarves, gloves, socks, etc) for all of us that do not have the patience to knit. Our cold-weather alpaca socks are a customer favorite. Check out all our alpaca product inventory on our Etsy store.
Besides keeping our toes warm, our herd of alpaca produce the fertilizer for our gardens. Alpaca manure is one of the richest – with a N-P-K ratio 1.5-0.2-1.1. It contains very little organic matter so there is very little weed contamination and it can be directly applied to the garden, no composting needed. And alpaca use a communal manure pile so collecting it is as easy as the shoveling!
Vegetables & Raspberries
Back to what you eat mattering – Witamy farm strives to follow organic practices growing our vegetables and raspberries. Besides the using fertilizer from our livestock, we do not use herbicides. The farm follows an integrated pest management strategy, including beneficial insects and organically certified substances applied if necessary. To ensure a good crop, we have planted a significant amount pollinator habitat in the garden area and around the hay field.
To get a jump start on the growing season, the farm has a large high tunnel (a.k.a. hoop house) that allows planting to begin as early as late March and to continue into August. We produce the traditional favorites – squash, green beans, cabbage, cucumber, tomato, etc. We also have a significant crop of late-summer red and black raspberries. Our farm stand is open July 1 through October 15.