Have you been longing to visit the farm? Well the time is here . . . the first farm tour of the year! Come one, come all—bring your family and your friends. Come see the lambs and the baby chicks! Meet the milk cows and the guard dogs. See how we raise our broiler chickens and how the egg laying chickens roam the pastures. Get a peek inside the garden tunnels and see what is growing. We have a new hay wagon and it is ready to take you around the farm so that you can see all the sights and here all the sounds.

The first Farm Tour Friday will be March 15, 2024 from 11:00 to 1:00.

Bring a picnic lunch if you like and eat on our new picnic tables in the barn lean-to or throw out a quilt on the grass.

$10 per person--pay cash at the gate, but please RSVP here.

Children under 5 are free.

Please bring NO pets!

Come join us for our first Farm to Table Dinner here at Shepherd’s Hill Farm. We will start the evening with fresh cheeses, crackers and local fruits. Then we will take a hay ride around the farm—where you will see the cows and the chickens and watch the lambs romp and play. Appetizers will be served along the way. Our destination will be a section of the farm where a four course dinner will be served alfresco style under the wide open sky where we can watch the animals graze on the rolling hills, see the sun set and watch the stars come out.

Brett and Jenni from Kalacrow Wood Fired Pizza will be catering the meal. While they are known for their pizzas—their large portable pizza oven can produce a whole lot more than pizza. So join us here on the farm as Brett and Jenni take seasonal foods from our farm and surrounding farms: from the pastures, the gardens, and Florida’s coastal waters and turn them into a meal you will not forget.       

This dinner takes place on our working farm—so please dress according to the weather and wear proper footwear; we suggest flat, close-toed shoes or boots. The event is held outside, so please bring layers so that you can be as comfortable as possible throughout the evening.

We have very limited seating, therefore these dinners are for adults only.

Tickets are $125 per adult

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Tickets are NON-REFUNDABLE and NON-TRANSFERABLE within 10 days of the event. Reservations are rain or shine.  

**NO PETS**

Do you dream of gathering eggs from your own chickens? Milking a cow everyday? Sitting in the pasture watching your sheep chew their cud—or bottle feeding a lamb? Maybe you want to raise your own beef or Thanksgiving turkey. Do you dream of being a farmer? Have you recently bought property, but find yourself a little overwhelmed with exactly how to raise a chicken, milk a cow, feed a turkey, or even fence your property? Well, we have been farming for 30 years and we very well remember the questions and fears when we first began. We had no background in farming, but we did have five acres and four horses. So when Mom’s health got so bad the doctor told her to try raising her own food we decided to give it a try. We started with chickens, and our first chicken coup wasn’t much more than a tiny shack pieced together from the wood scraps from our new house. We then added sheep—and all our lambs died the first year. A few years later we tried meat chickens. Our first experience included about 20 broilers that we raised on dirt in a 4 x 8 enclosure. Eight weeks later they were knee deep in manure, and once we processed them they tasted nasty.

We learned a lot by trial and error, and we learned a lot from other farmers coming along side of us and teaching us the ropes. Thirty years later we now live on 65 acres, our chicken houses are on wheels and travel around the farm following the cows and sheep. Yes, our flock of sheep has grown from three to a hundred, and we are raising chickens on pasture and moving them to fresh grass daily—and they taste so good that we are selling them now.

We don’t know everything—for there is always something to learn, but we would love to share what we do know—with you!

We want to invite you to the farm, Saturday, May 14, 2022 from 1:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. We will share with you “why” we farm, “what” we farm, and “how” we farm. We’ll walk around and view our set ups and you will have a chance to ask questions.

$75 per person, children free

If you are interested in learning how to process chickens—we will be processing chickens the day before, Friday, May 13, 2022 from 12 noon till 3:00. The cost for this is $30 per person.

Get your tickets here: https://youcanfarminflorida.rsvpify.com

We all have heard the saying, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” What better way to “love yourself” than to pamper the largest organ in your body with the finest of ingredients helping it to be smooth and healthy—not dried out and cracked during the winter or gardening months. Come and spend an afternoon with me as I teach you how to make a lotion bar using ingredients that will not matter if your child eats it or the dog gets a hold of it—might not taste good, but it won’t hurt them. The nice thing about a lotion bar is that if you drop it—it doesn’t spill all over the floor like liquid lotion making a greasy mess to clean up. Then once you learn how to make lotion bars, you can “love your neighbor” by making some for them as a gift.

So join me in the Shepherd’s Hill Farm Kitchen, Saturday afternoon, February 8, from 2:00 to 4:00 as we have fun mixing butters, oils, and beeswax to make a lovely lotion bar you will delight to use and share.

Please RSVP by dropping me an email letting me know that you are coming.

You can find our kitchen at 673 SW Ichetucknee Avenue, Lake City, FL 32024.

Cost is $30 at the door.

Hope to see you there!

                Do you like to garden? Would you like some new encouragement? What about herbs—do you know what grows best in Florida? Come spend a few hours in our Potager garden where we mix beauty with design, edible with ornamental. There is no better time of the year to walk through a garden than in May—the flowers are blooming, the vegetables are producing, and the herbs are at their peak. There is no other place on earth where you can go and utilize all five of your senses. There are pinks, purples, reds, yellows and greens to behold with your eyes. Of course you must take time to stop and smell the roses—but the smells don’t stop there. Pinch off a leaf of chocolate mint, oregano or thyme. Try a leaf of Mexican Tarragon that smells of licorice. You can always find something to nibble on from the vegetable patch—or maybe you might like to chew on a sprig of parsley or a leaf of spearmint. Then there is always that fresh glass of apple mint or lemon grass tea. There are the ribbed leaves of the plantain, the fuzzy leaves of the mullein, and the sticky leaves of cleavers. That leaves just one sense left—sound. There is no sweeter sound than the warbling of the song birds, and the wind rustling in the leaves—or the crunch of a fresh carrot when you bite into it. So come and walk with me through the gardens on Saturday, May 18, from 1:00 to 3:00 and learn about 20 plus different herbs—when to plant them, when to harvest them, and how to use them.

Early bird pricing is $30/person.

Tickets can be purchased day of for $40/person at the door.

Children 8 and under are free.

Tickets can be purchased directly through PayPal or by writing a check to Tarri Street and mailing it to:

673 SW Ichetucknee Avenue

Lake City, Florida 32024

Please RSVP here, and drop us a line in the message box telling us how many will be coming.

Come and learn the hows and whys of our chemical free meat sheep operation.

Mrs. Tarri Street will share about her over 20 years experience with sheep: why they raise sheep and how they raise sheep naturally without antibiotics and wormers. They will discuss what has worked and what hasn't worked, and how they came to this conclusion.

Early bird pricing is $30/person.

Tickets can be purchased day of for $40/person at the door.

Children 5 and under are free.

Tickets can be purchased directly through PayPal or by writing a check to Tarri Street and mailing it to:

673 SW Ichetucknee Avenue

Lake City, Florida 32024

Please RSVP here, and drop us a line in the message box telling us how many will be coming.