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:
1st and 3rd (and 5th!) Saturdays of the month from 10 - noon
Location: Parking lot of the Bryn Mawr Train Station (Lancaster Avenue & Bryn Mawr Avenue)
Chestnut Hill:
1st and 3rd (and 5th!) Saturdays of the month from 10 - noon
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.
Meetup on January 2nd, 16th and 30th.
Farm:
Friday from 12 - 4 pm
(or request an appt.)
HUGE chicken sale....only at the STORE
(and SATURDAY hours!)
Starting to sense a theme?
We want to coax you out to the store, and the hopes of spring weather are getting me excited to start planting lettuce, kohlrabi (the MOST underappreciated veggie) and get our batches of chicks started!
This week at the farm (Friday, 12 – 4 and Saturday 1 – 3 pm), save 20% on chicken cuts!!!!
Boneless Skinless, Split Chicken Breasts, Bone in Chicken Thighs, Boneless Chicken Thighs, Regular and Party Wings, Chicken Backs / Soup Packs and whole chicken legs….they’re all on sale, but only at the farm! (Because of this GREAT savings, we don’t offer the cash discount on TOP of the 20%, but the cash discount applies to anything else you get!)
What about the markets?
We are in Bryn Mawr and Chestnut Hill this weekend from 10 – noon, and have two enticing sales. You can enjoy BOTH sales if you pre-order:
BRYN MAWR:
Save on Splits! Save $2 / lb on Split chicken breasts – regularly $11 / lb, on sale for just $9 / lb.
CHESTNUT HILL:
Love me some Lamb! Save a significant $3 / lb on bone-in lamb leg chops (regularly $12 /lb, on sale for $9 / lb). These are perfect for crock pot braising OR they are very easy to cut into lamb cubes. With just a tiny piece of bone in their center, you can turn a leg chop into 1 lb of lamb cubes in about 2 minutes or less. This meat is PERFECT for stir fry, stew or a chunky lamb shepherd’s pie (see link below to our family’s favorite recipe). Since lamb cubes are $17 / lb, you’re saving at LEAST $7 / lb and a little more (I’m allowing for a little bit of weight for the bone, but the bone is the size of quarter and not that heavy!)
Start thinking….Easter & Passover!
They are coming, along with the need for ½ hams, briskets and lamb legs and racks. Start letting us know what you’d like!
BILTONG!
Wayne FINALLY made some biltong, and it’s delicious! Lay claim to it this weekend at the store or the markets.
NEW & NOTABLE:
Have you tried our boneless beef short ribs? They are to die for. Juicy, meaty and no loss to the bone!
The Asiago Chicken and Mushroom Sausage was such a big hit that we made more! If you didn’t get it (since we ran out), this weekend is your time.
Order ahead to ensure we don’t run out, if your request is unique or if you want to benefit from both market’s sales: canterhillfarm@yahoo.com
KITTENS:
We’ve had a big kitten year. We have two PRECIOUS kittens (one boy and one girl) that are ready for new homes! Unbelievably friendly and loving (used to dogs, chaos and general torture), they are the PERFECT Easter Basket treat!
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.