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EJ Market Gardens is a small market garden farm growing sustainable produce, eggs and poultry.
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134 Fuller Lane
Mifflin, PA
17058
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In 2018, EJ Market Gardens, LLC was established in the rural community of Mifflin, Pennsylvania, by Eric and Jackie Deiter. We are a small farm growing a diverse variety of produce and eggs for sale at our Farm Store and at farmers markets in Harrisburg, Mifflintown and Newport. Jackie is the produce grower, having grown up “working” on her grandparents’ farm as a kid, and eventually working on other produce farms for six years. We grow using sustainable agricultural practices, which includes building healthy soil, crop rotation, using covers to keep pests off crops, and we only use OMRI products (products approved for organic use) on our farm.
The original plan for poultry was to raise a small flock of pastured laying hens for personal use and some on-farm egg sales, and maybe a few broilers for meat here and there. However, Eric absolutely fell in love with chickens and in 2019 we doubled our flock by hatching our own chicks, and we received additional chicks from a family member. Eric liked birds so much, and Jackie had experience with turkeys from another farm, that we decided to raise a small batch of turkeys to supply local families with their Thanksgiving feast. After much research into feed, shelter, and processing; shelters were built, brooders were created, and supplies were procured. All turkeys were sold by October, and fresh, pasture raised turkeys were picked up on farm and delivered to our customers. In 2020, we added heritage breed turkeys and twice as many broad breasted turkeys were ordered from our favorite hatchery. Again, we sold out, and our customers were able to enjoy local turkey.
Eric had an idea forming that he might want to really get into raising pastured broilers, but that was a “down the road” dream. On a sunny, April morning, we needed to go to the local ag store, and as fate would have it, there, smiling up from the makeshift brooder, sat 25 fat little Cornish Cross broilers. It gets better. These chicks were nearly 2 weeks old, and drastically reduced in price to move them out. Back to Eric's ticking brain. "They're already 2 weeks old. That’s only another 6 weeks until they are ready to process".
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