Dry Ridge Farm

02/07/2026

Sorry folks. I couldn’t bring myself to do it and we’re worried eggs will freeze out there. Get your eggs and today!

11/20/2025

11/10/2025

Last week, customers received $487 worth of free-to-them food. It cost our farm nothing because all of it was pre-purchased by other customers through donated dollars and our 50 cent community fee per transaction.

While we’re not *quite* keeping up with demand, we started with plenty of funds and the time to use them is now! Please keep “charging the community” for what you need each week! We’ll replenish funds when need goes down, and we’re confident we’ll be able to keep the community card as flush as necessary!

10/31/2025

On June 17, when HOP lost funding, we added a 50 cent “community food fee” to each credit card transaction at market. To date, that’s raised $864, and we’ve finally figured out how to get that back to the community. Thanks to for tapping me in to the “how”!

Any customer needing to stretch their food dollars can simply hand us this card off our table or tell us to “please charge the community.”

We’re working on more ways to build this in to our pricing; in the meantime, we’ll also have a “give a dollar” jar on our table to collect contributions to keep the community card flush.

I have every confidence in our ability to raise funds for the card. The part that worries me is that receiving can be so much more difficult than giving.

And so I’ll say this: in the weeks after Helene, a customer had a very large fundraiser for us, a business in our county reimbursed us for a LOT of egg donations, TRACTOR paid us for eggs they distributed for free- they bought 50% of our eggs for a while when we lost all our wholesale customers overnight. Friends and neighbors delivered eggs for us, they helped us pack eggs, and we received several grants. I felt undeserving of it all because so many people were worse off than us. Over time, I realized that despite not being the worst off, it was really really hard for us too and it was okay to receive help. I also realized that receiving others’ help was a gift to them too. I literally had a friend who wouldn’t accept any food until I asked if she could deliver a box of eggs to her church weekly. She needed to contribute in order to receive.

Truth be told, I’m really struggling with selling food while 50 million Americans are experiencing an increase in their hunger. Please use this card. It’s me bringing eggs to my church.

09/26/2025

is 🔥. Riley was particularly fond of the “squeaky fish” (crudo), Mollie- the furikake chicken, and Mama - the agnolotti… and the wallpaper (yall the space is gorgeous). A delicious way to kick off a week of making new memories in changes yet familiar spaces.

09/26/2025

Making peace. It’s been a week of making new memories in changed yet familiar spaces. No better way to spend our anniversary than to float the river in Hot Springs and have a bite to eat .

07/17/2025

“We should make blueberry pie… no crumble.”
“And blueberry ice cream to go with it.”
“And blueberry muffins for the morning?”
We’ve got our weekend planned.

07/04/2025

Happy Independence Day, a day to commemorate our country’s founding by a scathing rejection of authoritarianism and by standing up for human rights & democratic principles (albeit falling far short of providing those to all citizens).

Dissent is patriotic. It is the SINGLE reason we exist as a country, and the ENTIRE point of the Declaration of Independence. I encourage you to read the document in its entirety today because it was about far more than “taxation without representation.” It was about “depriving us in many cases of the benefits of trial by jury,” about “transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses,” about “cutting off our trade with all parts of the world,” and for “obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners.” Seriously, read it. In its entirety. It’s striking.

May we continue to strive for decency, equity, and democracy, now and forever.

05/14/2025

This brings me SO. MUCH. JOY. It’s been a long time coming and is straight up AMAZING to work with in all ways- communication, timeframe, easy set up with our electricity co-op - literally, everything about set up, grant application, and install has been perfect and painless (knock on wood. A couple more days to go!). More about solar and how it helps increase American energy production while decreasing farm expenses in a later post. But I’m SO blissed out about using sunshine energy for a huge majority of our energy use from here on!

03/27/2025

Lots of pullet eggs headed to and this Saturday, 10-1! Lots of surprise little double yolks!

03/07/2025

Eggs will be back at markets March 29th! We’ll be at North Asheville market only with meat ONLY for the next 3 weeks. But the good news is… we got these 10 eggs today! From our 2,000 new pullers so still a ways to go but it’s a beautiful start!