Lindisfarn

Lindisfarn We offer the antidote to the artificial. In an era of factory farming and synthetic shortcuts, Lindisfarn is a return to the real.

Our chickens are raised under the open sky—nourished by sunshine, wild forage, and certified organic feed.

05/04/2026

Lindisfarn Week 3 update!

**Ready for an oil-shock?**The paper traders, they're playing a game with oil futures that's completely disconnected fro...
04/24/2026

**Ready for an oil-shock?**

The paper traders, they're playing a game with oil futures that's completely disconnected from reality. They're pushing prices down with contracts that have nothing to do with actual barrels in the ground. It's fiction. And fiction trades only for so long before reality shows up and demands a conversation.

Harvey Mackay said it better than anyone: "Dig your well before you're thirsty". Not after. When one's thirsty, it's too late.

Right now it feels like we've got plenty. The prices are stable. The shelves are stocked. And that's exactly the time to dig. Not when the water's running out. Not when items start disappearing from the shelves.

What I'm seeing is a trickle becoming a rush. Prices start nudging up. A little squeeze here. Some regional tightness there. It's noticeable but not alarming. Then one day, the well runs dry. Not gradually. All at once. That's how these things work.

So what's the move? Stop waiting. Fill the root cellar. Dried beans, rice, oats. Potatoes and carrots and turnips that'll sit through winter without complaining.

Plant a garden. No space? Get into a community garden with neighbors. Source a quarter cow from a local farmer worth trusting.

Build redundancy into the household. Extra storage. Backup systems.

But here's the real work: find a farmer. Not someday. Now. Walk into a farmers market. Shake their hand.

Because when the global system hiccups, the only well that matters is the one right under our feet and the person tending it.

Hopefully nothing will happen, but the chances of an oil shock increase every day the strait remains closed.

Your local stewards,
Renaud & Annie

04/22/2026

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A Strange Device from Childhood...Last night, a memory surfaced from nowhere. A wooden instrument on a wall. I was small...
04/22/2026

A Strange Device from Childhood...

Last night, a memory surfaced from nowhere. A wooden instrument on a wall. I was small. I didn't understand what it was...just knew it was there, that adults looked at it, that it mattered somehow.

This morning I asked my family about it.
They still have it.

Forty years I hadn't thought of that barometer. I left my father's world entirely: built a web design agency, traveled out west, launched digital ventures. Never once did I think I'd find myself back where he was: watching the weather, tending animals, learning to read the land.

But something circles back.

Now, as we build Lindisfarn with pastured chickens—something I never planned, never imagined—that same barometer will hang on our barn wall.

And here's what's wild: in an age of satellites and AI and forecasts precise to the hour, that simple wooden needle reads something no algorithm can. It reads our valley. Our pressure. Our sky. Not the regional grid ten miles away...ours.

Modern weather apps lie to you. Not on purpose. They just can't see what's actually happening in your microclimate. But a barometer mounted on your barn? It knows.

Forty years. The same instrument. The same hunger to know what's actually coming. The same understanding that some knowledge can't be digitized.

Some tools don't age. They just wait for you to catch up.

6:15AM and it's -4 Celsius. I worried all night, but the chicks are fine 🐥
04/21/2026

6:15AM and it's -4 Celsius. I worried all night, but the chicks are fine 🐥

Broiler chicks on hard mode 🐤❄️It's -2°C, snowing, and I'm out here adjusting lamp height every couple hours like I'm fi...
04/19/2026

Broiler chicks on hard mode 🐤❄️

It's -2°C, snowing, and I'm out here adjusting lamp height every couple hours like I'm fine-tuning a rocket launch. Windows cracking open, then closing. Checking the brooder every 3 hours. Obsessively.

Welcome to week one of Lindisfarn's first broiler season.

I'll be honest—there's a decent amount of "new parent anxiety" happening. These little guys are fragile. They need their temps dialed in. Too hot, they pile in the corners. Too cold, they pile on each other. The margin is real.

But here's the thing: we're not just keeping them alive. We're hardening them off for May. Gradually dropping temps so they're ready to go outside into actual spring weather instead of coddled in a 95-degree brooder box all their lives.

So yeah. It's intense. It's hands-on. It's the opposite of set-it-and-forget-it.

But this is what actual farming looks like. Not Instagram farming, real farming. The 3am temp checks. The small adjustments that matter. The commitment to doing it right, even when it's cold and inconvenient.

Day 4 ongoing. Many more to go.

04/18/2026

Day 2 of Lindisfarne Farm. One of our chicks didn't make it.

This little one likely had a congenital issue...too early for disease. It's sad but it's a reality of raising broiler chickens that the first 72 hours in the brooder are always the shakiest.

Hatcheries know this. They always provide extra chicks for exactly this reason.

By day 3, survival rates climb dramatically. Chicks stabilize. Their systems strengthen. The mortality cliff isn't a failure...it's a biological fact that every pastured poultry farmer navigates.

What matters is that 22 founding members believed in this enough to back it before we turned a single chick.

You're not buying from a system that hides these realities. You're part of one that's honest about them.

The rest of this cohort is thriving. We'll be harvesting healthier, genuinely pastured chicken in 8 weeks for the first time in our lives. And we'll do it again for the harvest coming this fall.

Have any of you raised poultry? Share what you learned in those first fragile days.

04/16/2026

Day 1 spot check. It quite peaceful here in the brooder. The most important thing is to make sure they are happy with the temperature. It's just right 🤌

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