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Paradise
Gardens and Farm,
LLC (Back to News Index) Steve & Lucinda 2771 Paradise Road Reynoldsville, PA 15851 |
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Paradise
Gardens and Farm,
LLC (Back to News Index) Steve & Lucinda 2771 Paradise Road Reynoldsville, PA 15851 |
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(814)
568-1207 (farmhouse) (814) 932-6761 (cell)
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ParadiseGardensandFarm@comcast.net
Click to email us. (Up Kramer Rd from Rte 119 in Stump Creek) |
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| The KIDS You know ... everything changes when you have kids.  We had 23 of them this spring... |
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They keep you busy. Stephen built small pens for the new moms' and kids' first weeks. He made the warming hutches for them when they were bigger. And then there was daily feeding and milking.  At first, we milked by hand, until the dairy was finished. |
Stephen set up water lines to the pastures.  That was a curiosity while
they were going in!
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| The DAIRY and CREAMERY And more building. All
winter! Stephen created a milking parlor, milk storage room, and
creamery complete with bathroom and storeroom, all inside the lower
barn, a building inside a building!
Each step along the way we had inspections and standards to meet. The end result -- a working dairy/creamery! |
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We're milking goats...
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the
official way...  |
And
making cheese! |
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with granddaughter Sage Ella) |
To Market, To Market! With bottled milk and cheese ... We now sell at the Indiana County Farmer's Market in downtown Indiana, at Smicksburg Community Cheese near Smicksburg, and direct off the farm. We gave up the Coolspring Farmers Market in Sykesville and the Punxsutawney Farmers Market. We were just too busy! |
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| COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE
(CSA) This year we sold all our produce and eggs (and some of the milk and cheese) by subscription and we loved it! We did feel truly supported by our subscribers who came every week for their CSA share boxes and sometimes stayed to visit. Our vegetables that we painstakingly grew went to eager eaters instead of wilting away on a market table. We picked and shared with joy. Thank you subscribers! Interested in joining up again or anew? Go to our CSA page! |
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| FARM TOURS and VISITS The more we grow, the more people want to come visit and we love it. This year, we have held tours or Field Days for the Punxsutawney Garden Club, the Down To Earth Garden Club (DuBois), and jointly the PA Assoc. for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) and PA Women in Agriculture Network (PA-WAgN). We had two articles in the local paper -- on landscape cloth and the licensing of our dairy/creamery.  (Courier-Express April 2008) |
 (PASA Field Day photos - Troy Bogdan, farmer/photographer) |
 
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