Richmond Area Food System

Our friend helped us get up hay from our neighbors field. We got 100 square bales for cattle or donkey feed.

Posted by Dragonfly Farms • 3 days ago • View comments

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The three calves are from our red Angus bull and are now 3, 4 and 5 months. Zorro is our new young Belted Galloway bull. He is 1.5 years old. He will probably grow to 1600-1800 pounds. He came from Red Gates Farm in Lexington, VA, and is halter broke. T [...]

Posted by Dragonfly Farms • 29 days ago • View comments

Yesterday we brought our young heifers to our pasture with the fall calving herd. They will live and graze with this herd until December. At that point the heifers still too young to breed will go to another field and our bull will join the fall calving [...]

Posted by Dragonfly Farms • 33 days ago • View comments

   Good Day All!   The Mayor's Youth Academy -Youth Conservation Corp (summer youth employment gardening experience) is still looking for instructors Mon., Tues., and Thurs. 9:00am until 11:00am to teach youth ages 15-17 years of age hands [...]

Posted by Jonah • 41 days ago • View comments

100 degrees and getting hotter, we still had a great turnout. Lots of customers and our vendors still had wonderful goods.

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We did not have to ask them twice if they wanted to stand to get scrubbed and hosed off, and did they come clean. They look really good.

Posted by Dragonfly Farms • 44 days ago • View comments

Yesterday we took five of our 9-10 month old calves over to our fields with the bigger steers. We have Belted Galloway, Red Angus, Black Angus and some Angus X Galloway crosses. It was very calm introducing the new animals. A bit of playing and wrestling [...]

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