Eugene’s premier urban farming store is all set for a busy and fun filled growing season. Baby chicks have arrived and will continue to arrive on a weekly basis until the first part of September. To see what we are expecting go to our Calender page, tab to the month, then click on the date of chick arrivals. A drop down box will show you all the breeds due to arrive that day.
In addition to an impressive selection of chicks, we will be doing at least one hatch of ducklings as well as at least three batches of meat birds.
Our selection of Territorial seeds is in as well as some great varieties of organic potato seeds. Vegetable and herb starts will be here as soon as the weather will allow.
To help you grow your urban farm we now carry top bar bee hives as well as smokers, veils, gloves, bee brushes and hive tools. Both our Warre hives and our Kenyan style horizontal Top Bar hives are hand made in Eugene.
Top Bar hives are the all natural way of managing a backyard beehive. With a Top Bar hive the bees simply build a natural sized comb on a slat of wood. No need to switch out combs or exclude the queen since you are replicating what a colony would do if left alone. Get a Top Bar hive for your back yard and you will have your greatest garden ever, you will do right by the struggling bee population, and you will get some fine honey at the end of the year.
What was once an auto repair garage is now growing into an urban farming supply store. The joys and benefits of growing our own food can be enjoyed regardless of whether we live in the country or in the city. The Eugene Backyard Farmer wants to make urban homesteading as accessible as possible.
While backyard farming is not a new idea its popularity has grown over the past few years. Concerns about the quality of our food and how food gets to us has forced us to ask a lot of hard questions. Now simply buying organic may not be enough to bring about the type of change in food production that we need. Growing your own is becoming the answer more and more.
Backyard farming can take many forms and can consist of several aspects. Gardening, composting and raising chickens is the easiest and most enjoyable way of building a backyard farm. Our gardens produce healthy and fresh produce and the remains are feed to the chickens. The chickens give us safe and delicious eggs as well as manure. The excess garden and chicken waste is then composted to give our garden the strength it needs to continue to give us fresh and healthy produce. And the cycle continues.
For The Eugene Backyard Farmer, it all starts with chickens. The popularity of backyard chickens is so strong that we see the need for an urban feed store. We simply have all you need to raise the most healthy eggs possible. Baby chicks are sold between early February and mid September. We have a wide selection of feed including local, sustainable, organic and affordable. In addition we have equipment, treats and even household decorations to help you enjoy the life of a backyard chicken farmer.
We are a small store and will take the time to answer your questions. We want your urban farming experience to be as successful as possible so we make the commitment to help you with some of the challenges you might have.
Whether you’re an old-hand homesteader, or new to it and curious, we hope that you will visit.
