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Welcome to Sunnywood Farm and Family Foodstead
Sunnywood Farm is a smallholding in beautiful Waldo County, Maine. We started out by building our off-grid
cordwood house, with the intention of simplifying our lives. Our farm began largely in response to our
desire to find an ongoing way to have some control over
the quality of our food supply.
We are now working toward a traditional diversified farmstead.
As we progress, we hope to be able to share some of what we have learned in an effort to "pay forward" all of the help we have gratefully received
along the way.
Heritage Breeds
We keep heritage and farmstead breeds of dairy goats, chickens, hogs,
and geese, grow many heirloom vegetables and fruits, and keep honey bees.
Why heritage breeds? Modern agriculture has given us improved breeds of livestock, which are bred for particular profitable traits to the exclusion of
others. This has resulted in turkeys that can't mate naturally, broiler chickens that can't walk, and dairy cows with fivefold production that suffer
impaired health and reproductive failure. Raising heritage breeds helps to conserve important genetic diversity, preserve our agricultural
heritage, and ensure farming options for our future. Heritage and farmstead breeds tend to be hardy as well as multipurpose, for example, chickens suitable for both
eggs and meat. Such breeds are easy keepers; they are
generally resistant to parasites and diseases, and thrive outdoors on rough forage. They are well suited to a sustainable farmstead environment.
Holistic Approach
We are working toward raising our animals as holistically and
sustainably as possible. Our approach to health management is preventive, based on good nutrition, fresh air and sunshine, fresh pasture and browse,
and elective access to shelter from the elements. Our animals have responded well to herbal and homeopathic treatments when something is awry.
Feeding ourselves well while ensuring good lives for our animals are twin priorities, and we realize that we are what they eat.
Livestock Sales
We occasionally have breeding-quality heritage-breed animals
for sale, as well as farmstead livestock appropriate for backyard or homestead food production.
Please contact us for
more information.
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NEWS
Fritter was another doe who had us fooled. We expected her kids in early March, and they arrived on April 21! We love the colors on these boys.  See more pictures of Fritter's kids, as well as Willow's mini-Oberhasli doeling and buckling, on our New Kids page.
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Date: 30 April 2012
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Phlox had 3 possible due dates: 3/3, 3/23, or 3/29. We expected her to kid on 3/3, because she was so big, but she fooled us all, and delivered on 3/30. What a great mom she is. And look at these beauties! See more pictures on the New Kids page. 
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Date: 01 April 2012
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Luna presented us with five beautiful piglets yesterday morning. She'd been restless, spending a lot of extra time padding and sculpting her nest, so we knew she was close. True to the easy care and natural abilities of the American Guinea Hog, Luna took care of everything; we are just bystanders as far as she is concerned. 
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Date: 11 March 2012
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(Photos are being posted as available on the New Kids page.) Kiku kidded exactly on time, nearly to the hour, on 2/28, and had two buckskin-lookalikes: a doeling and a buckling. Peneuche kidded on 3/1, one day early, and had two doelings and one buckling: two butterscotch-colored like their mom, and one mocha. < ... Read more »
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Date: 03 March 2012
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The 2012 lab report is in, and all Sunnywood Farm goats have tested NEGATIVE for CAE and CL.
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Date: 27 February 2012
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Date: 24 February 2012
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Piglets
We expect to have weaner Guinea Hog piglets available this spring to raise as meat-makers, and perhaps some breeding-quality,
registerable Guinea Hog piglets as well. For prices and information, or to reserve a piglet, please use
our contact form. Be
sure to include your ... Read more »
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Date: 12 January 2012
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