Canter Hill
Farm
WHY WE GROW
We grow because we care what we eat. We care even more what our children eat. And we think you care, too. We founded Canter Hill Farm in 2008 with the goal of growing our own food so that we knew exactly what was (and what wasn't) in it. We didn't set out to start a business - we had two full-time careers of our own. But then we started talking to people who read the books that we did and cared as much as we did - and we decided to try to grow for them, too. That's how it all began....
WHERE WE ARE
2138 Valley Hill Road
Malvern, PA 19355
We are open on
Fridays from 12 - 4.
Email: canterhillfarm@yahoo.com
Phone: 610.827.1594
(For a quick response, email is best!)
HOW TO BUY
SCHEDULE
Bryn Mawr:
Every Saturday from
9 am - 1 pm
Location: Parking lot of the Bryn Mawr Train Station (Lancaster Avenue & Bryn Mawr Avenue)
Chestnut Hill:
Every Saturday
9 am - noon until Christmas
Location: in front of the Mermaid Inn.
Kennett Square:
Get on our "Kennett Dropoff List" by sending us an email
Media:
Email to get on the "Media dropoff" email list. I'll alert you when I'm coming to Media and we can meet up for a pickup.
Farm:
Friday from 12 - 4 pm
(or request an appt.)
FRESH FINALE
The fresh chicken season is ending.
We'd love to coax you out from under those warm covers by offering a last-chance-at-fresh sale on chicken this week. (We will have an additional week or two of fresh chicken, but this was the last BIG processing and the BIG sale of the season!)
SAVE on the below chicken cuts:
Really big savings are highlighted in YELLOW
Boneless/Skinless Chicken Breasts (regularly $15 / lb, on sale for $13 / lb)
Split Chicken Breasts (regularly $11 / lb, on sale for $10 / lb)
Boneless Chicken Thighs (regularly $13 / lb, on sale for $11 / lb)
Bone-in Chicken Thighs (regularly $9 / lb, on sale for $8 / lb)
Chicken PARTY Wings (regularly $6.50 / lb, on sale for $6 / lb)
Chicken Wings (regularly $5.50 / lb, on sale for $5 / lb)
(*Note: If you're ordering large quantities, we assume many are going in the freezer, and we will fill your order with FROZEN unless you specify)
Markets:
Friday, October 24th at the FARM from 12 - 4 pm
2138 Valley Hill Road, Malvern, PA
(You don't NEED to pre-order, but we welcome pre-orders)
Friday, October 24th around 10:30 am in MEDIA
Meet up at either Wolff's Apple House or Martindales in Swarthmore
Saturday, October 25th
Bryn Mawr (9 am - 1 pm):
Bryn Mawr train station parking lot, directly across from Ludington Library
Chestnut Hill (9 am - noon):
In front of the Mermaid Inn
Perfect Produce:
We have some BEAUTIFUL heads of cauliflower (white and purple) and broccoli, green beans and a handful of butternut squash. We're picking the last cherry and heirloom tomatoes and hopefully we can pull together a few flower bouquets. It's the season's end, so grab them now.
Great Stuff:
We have Peri-Peri!
Grab your whole chicken or pork shoulder, slather it and bake it (or throw it in the crock pot with a little chicken stock) and voila - dinner is served!
Stock season: Nothing's cozier on these cold evenings than soup. Canter Hill's chicken or beef stock offers a hearty, healthy alternative to store-bought (watery!) versions. Slow simmered over DAYS, our stock is just browned bones, Madiera-deglazed drippings and salt. A little onion, celery, carrot and garlic sauteed and combined with our rich stock is the perfect base to which you can add some leftover chicken pieces or sausage meatballs (just remove from casing, roll and bake at 375 for 10 minutes).
And finally - my FAVORITE recipe that uses the last of all those fall goodies (zuchinni, eggplant, onions) AND is so simple you can prep it in 10 min and it only dirties 1 bowl and 1 pan!! Change it up and use BONELESS TURKEY THIGHS in this recipe for more protein bang for your buck (and SUPER juicy): Click on the button below to go to the recipe.
Thanksgiving Pre-Order Sale:
We offer this EVERY year. If you pre-order your other items that you want to pickup at the Thanksgiving markets (11/22) or at turkey pickup by or before midnight on SUNDAY, 11/16, you'll save 10% on all non - turkey items in your order. Simply send a list in email to: canterhillfarm@yahoo.com
and indicate WHERE and WHEN you are picking things up
Turkey Notes:
We are taking orders for turkeys!
Get in your order ASAP!
Our Mission:
We founded the farm on a simple premise:
Before chemicals, labs and factory farms got involved, God had created a perfect, workable system. We will learn about it, respect it, and we will naturally and successfully be able to be "beyond-organic" in our food supply.
New to farming, we had no pre-conceived ideas about raising animals or vegetables, and sought out farmers across the globe to learn what we did and didn't want to do. We quickly saw that most food systems raising just one type of offering needed external inputs - fertilizers, corn and sadly - sometimes chemicals and antibiotics. That's why we raise a variety of animals. Each has been chosen to serve a function for the others.
Over the last 10 years, we have grown and in addition to our home-base farm in Malvern, we lease 180 acres of grazing land from old family friends in Lancaster County. During the summer, we rotate half of our sheep flock through this land, and most of our steers call this land home. All of the land we graze is 100% free of any chemicals or sprays and we re-plant every other year to manage soil compression, erosion and to preserve a diversity of forage.
Canter Hill's beef and lamb is 100% grass (or hay) feed, and supplemented only with salt licks. We de-worm our sheep flock once annually, after lambing season (at the same time as sheering - typically the first week of June) and do not introduce any other chemicals or antibiotics. We have not experienced the same need to de-worm our steers. We have been migrating our sheep flock from Dorset to Katahdin, and therefore most of our sheep are now 50% or more Katahdin (a hair sheep), because we believe the meat tastes nicer! Our beef is both Black and Lowline Angus. We are shifting towards Lowline Angus which is more tolerant of 100% grass feeding and generally very hardy.
Canter Hill's poultry and pork is either pasture (for poultry) or forage fed (our pigs dig in the forest, and our turkeys also tend to roam!). They are supplemented with organic, soy-free feed. How much feed vs. forage do they consume? It depends on the weather. If it's raining or cold, more feed than forage. On warm days that aren't drenching, almost entirely forage. This is why we raise from March - November.
We STRONGLY encourage you to open your minds to frozen meat. If you're committed to pasture raising, recognize that you can't have fresh meat in the dead of winter, and purchase a great freezer!
We are committed to pasture-raised, antibiotic-free and chemical-free poultry, lamb and produce.