Sweet Pickins Farm

05/15/2025

The evolution of hatching our own baby ducks. With baby duck snuggles in the hoodie as my favorite part 😍 5 babies out before the anticipated 5/15 hatch date with a bunch left to go ❤️❤️🦆

05/10/2025

While it is a drizzly day there is still plenty of beauty in the rain 🌷☔️ Come on down to the to shop for the mothers out there 🌺🌼 We'll be stocked up with all of our delicious fresh chicken and duck, limited amount as these first batches went fast (looking like a fantastic day for grilling tomorrow!) You'll find flowers, veggies, plant starts, pottery, jewelry, cheeses, coffee, sauces, spirits, baked goods and more!

04/29/2025

8 more days until our delicious pasture raised, non-gmo chicken and duck is all back in stock!! We are fortunate to be able to open our facility early and get fresh meat out to the farmstand, community, and the ahead of the grilling season madness 🍗 Our delicious, eggs, meat, broth, fat, and sausages will be at the this Saturday May 3rd for opening weekend, come by early, the eggs sell out fast!

03/27/2025

1/2 dozen packs of goose eggs are now available in the farm stand 🪿 Did you know goose eggs are roughly 3x the size of a chicken egg with similar flavor?! Limited amount so snag em while you can!

03/19/2025

Babies arrived last week with more incoming today 🐥 The raising season is officially underway! We are glad to see the snow melting in turn prompting fields and leaves to wake up from their winter slumber 💤 This means fresh chicken and duck back in stock and available the week of May 7th 🙌🙌

03/01/2025

Duck, duck, goose 😜🪿 Size comparison in slide one of duck eggs to a goose egg. Goose eggs are huge! There are about 3-4 regular size chicken eggs per goose egg 😳 Second slide comparison of a bantam chicken egg (far left) to a goose egg, and then a standard chicken egg. Eggs are pretty cool if you ask us 😎

02/22/2025

Our own pastured raised, non-gmo turkey legs are what's for dinner! Seasoned and roasted, these came out juicy and tender. This is the smallest leg and it is still clearly to big for our beautiful .b.ceramics pasta bowl! We were excited to offer turkey in our 2024 growing season and held some parts back for personal use this winter and YUM!!! Keep your 👀 out for fresh chicken and duck beginning in May!

02/13/2025

Really inventive way to use our duck fat! In Vermont you can throw a rock and hit another poultry farmer as everyone has chicken (our farm included 😜), but local, pasture raised USDA duck? Now that's an indulgent protein! One that we have honed and take immense pride in providing our local community and restaurants. Starry Night Cafe always has really creative and delicious dishes with locally sourced ingredients, check them out!!

The Boulevardier reimagined?
We’re warming ourselves up today with this savory cocktail and wishing we were South for the Winter!
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Duck fat, fat-washed famous grouse Scotch, meletti amaro, our house blended sweet vermouth, angostura and black walnut bitters
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Side note - the fat used in this recipe comes from our duck confit! One stations excess is another’s treasure 🦆
💫 Only 10 dinner services left before we temporarily close for our kitchen remodel so join us Wednesday - Sunday with seatings from 4:30-8 💫

02/13/2025

Looking outside and wishing the ground was bare of snow for planting and growing to begin 🌱 All of the meat birds batches have been ordered, more fencing ordered, bee hives built, and farmers market application has been put in. Ready for the 2025 season to start 💪

01/04/2025

Break time from markets 🤘 Doing a farmers market one day a weekend for 8 months can be tiring, we are thankful our farmstand has taken off so well and we are able to step back, slow down, relax some, and finish some house projects! Coming off of our biggest year ever we are looking forward to planning our 2025 season with batch planning, product timing, and honing our product lines. So thankful for all of the support throughout the year from our customers new and old 🙏 🚨Reminder🚨Farmstand is open 8am-8pm 7 days a week, self serve (broth, eggs, meat, rendered fat, and jam) Be sure to say 👋 to Anne and Pepper!

12/21/2024

Anne and Pepper (the official SPF greeters) want ya'll to know there's only 5 more days until Christmas 🎄 This means 1 more chance to grab your pasture raised, USDA certified, 100% Putney raised and processed goose (3 left!), duck, or chicken at the tomorrow from 10am-2pm or daily in the farmstand (goose is pre-order, please call or email ahead). Birds have been flying out of here all week (bad pun intended 😆) so snag yours now before its to late!