Song Away Farm is a family run, year-round operation that raises
Californian rabbits for restaurant and private meat sales. We also offer quality stock for breeding and show purposes. Our rabbitry includes a climate controlled space for the rabbits, a dedicated processing room and a 10 kilowatt solar array to provide all of our electrical power needs.
For more information Contact Us.
Californian rabbits for restaurant and private meat sales. We also offer quality stock for breeding and show purposes. Our rabbitry includes a climate controlled space for the rabbits, a dedicated processing room and a 10 kilowatt solar array to provide all of our electrical power needs.
For more information Contact Us.
Chicken Meat For Sale
SOLD OUT for 2020!!
Thank you!!
Thank you!!
Broiler chicks - housed inside for a couple weeks until they feather out.
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Unlike the industry standard our broilers are raised outside in spacious conditions. They are kept safe from predators with an electric fence and have a shelter to protect them from rain or too much summer sun! They really enjoy the cool grass in the morning and evenings.
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Our broilers are humanely processed by us, on our property, and do not have to deal with the stress of being transported to a processing facility. The poultry shrink bags we use are BPA free unlike some of the other bags on the market.
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"Just had to send a quick note to say how delicious the rabbit and chicken are. Shortly after our visit, I made a rabbit dish with a tarragon sauce (have lots of tarragon in my garden!). It was delicious. Over this past weekend, I roasted one of your chickens and our whole family agrees it's the best chicken we've had. (and we've tried lots of chickens from local farms!) I used a simple brine and then roasted it with vegetables. So delicious!
Hope you enjoy the rest of your summer and I'll talk to you soon!" Caroline 7/11/2016
Our meat chickens enjoying some summer sunshine and the black-eyed susans!
Handmade Products For Sale
Wool felted soaps, wool dryer balls, scented bars of soap
Eco-Friendly 100% Wool Dryer Balls ($4.00)
95% Organic Liquid Castile Soap
Our all natural, vegan castile soap is made with only four ingredients:
Water, Organic Olive Oil*, Organic Coconut Oil*, and Potassium Hydroxide**
* Certified fair trade ingredients
** Soap is made with lye but it doesn’t contain lye, as none remains after it converts the oils into soap and glycerin
Here are just a few uses for this environmentally friendly product; a little goes a long way:
Dilute 1:10 with water for your dishes - a little goes a long way
Dilute 1:15 with water for an all purpose cleaner
Dilute 1:15 with water for a liquid hand soap
Mop your floors with 1/2 cup soap in 3 gallons of hot water
Mix 3 tablespoons soap with 1⁄4 cup baking soda for a nontoxic shower scrub
Full strength or diluted, it makes a great all in one shower shampoo and body wash
This product is unscented, but feel free to add some of your favorite essential oil to the soap.
Why only 95% organic?
“Lye isn’t organic; however, it is one of the allowable non-organic ingredients included in USDA organic standards since their inception.” (The Truth About Lye and Soap)
4 ounce bottle $5
8 ounce bottle $8
17 ounce glass bottle $15 plus $2.50 bottle deposit
95% Organic Liquid Castile Soap
Our all natural, vegan castile soap is made with only four ingredients:
Water, Organic Olive Oil*, Organic Coconut Oil*, and Potassium Hydroxide**
* Certified fair trade ingredients
** Soap is made with lye but it doesn’t contain lye, as none remains after it converts the oils into soap and glycerin
Here are just a few uses for this environmentally friendly product; a little goes a long way:
Dilute 1:10 with water for your dishes - a little goes a long way
Dilute 1:15 with water for an all purpose cleaner
Dilute 1:15 with water for a liquid hand soap
Mop your floors with 1/2 cup soap in 3 gallons of hot water
Mix 3 tablespoons soap with 1⁄4 cup baking soda for a nontoxic shower scrub
Full strength or diluted, it makes a great all in one shower shampoo and body wash
This product is unscented, but feel free to add some of your favorite essential oil to the soap.
Why only 95% organic?
“Lye isn’t organic; however, it is one of the allowable non-organic ingredients included in USDA organic standards since their inception.” (The Truth About Lye and Soap)
4 ounce bottle $5
8 ounce bottle $8
17 ounce glass bottle $15 plus $2.50 bottle deposit
Rabbits For Sale
None at this time.
Farm News Flash:
March 2017
Our broiler chicks will be arriving the second week in April!
We will be working with the Loudon Agricultural Commission
on a June 3rd workshop regarding raising & processing broilers.
For more information regarding this class or purchasing some of our chicken meat this season please contact us.
Our broiler chicks will be arriving the second week in April!
We will be working with the Loudon Agricultural Commission
on a June 3rd workshop regarding raising & processing broilers.
For more information regarding this class or purchasing some of our chicken meat this season please contact us.
October 6, 2016
Song Away Farm's New Delivery Mobile!
Thanks to the new 2016 Prius we have more than doubled the efficiency of our deliveries. Our old subcompact Jetta wagon was no slouch at 25-28 MPG, but the Prius has delivered a whopping 60 MPG average in its first 3000 miles. Along with the solar array added in September, the new (and surprisingly roomy) car is helping to make the farm's carbon footprint a bit smaller.
Song Away Farm's New Delivery Mobile!
Thanks to the new 2016 Prius we have more than doubled the efficiency of our deliveries. Our old subcompact Jetta wagon was no slouch at 25-28 MPG, but the Prius has delivered a whopping 60 MPG average in its first 3000 miles. Along with the solar array added in September, the new (and surprisingly roomy) car is helping to make the farm's carbon footprint a bit smaller.
September 9, 2016 11:52 a.m.
Song Away Farm started generating power!
The whole farm is now being powered by 35- 285 watt Suniva solar panels.
They were installed on top of the barn and tied into the whole electrical system.
On the first totally sunny September day our system produced 48 kWh's -
ample enough to supply the needs of the farm and house
and allowed us to bank the extra kWh's for those short winter days that are approaching all too quickly!
So here is wishing for many bright sunny days (rainfall only between the hours of 7pm and 7am).
If interested in hearing about our experience about having solar panels installed
and how it will be powering Song Away Farm well into the future contact us.
Or contact Fuat Ari at SunDial Solar (603-961-0045)
and be sure to tell him Steve & Kay, the rabbit ranchers from Song Away Farm, sent you!!
Song Away Farm started generating power!
The whole farm is now being powered by 35- 285 watt Suniva solar panels.
They were installed on top of the barn and tied into the whole electrical system.
On the first totally sunny September day our system produced 48 kWh's -
ample enough to supply the needs of the farm and house
and allowed us to bank the extra kWh's for those short winter days that are approaching all too quickly!
So here is wishing for many bright sunny days (rainfall only between the hours of 7pm and 7am).
If interested in hearing about our experience about having solar panels installed
and how it will be powering Song Away Farm well into the future contact us.
Or contact Fuat Ari at SunDial Solar (603-961-0045)
and be sure to tell him Steve & Kay, the rabbit ranchers from Song Away Farm, sent you!!
March 2016
For a second year in a row a Song Away rabbit has been published Grit Magazine's Guide to Backyard Rabbits!
For a second year in a row a Song Away rabbit has been published Grit Magazine's Guide to Backyard Rabbits!
Song Away's Fern
January 2016
Look for the addition of farm raised broilers (5 1/2+ pound average) for sale this summer!
We will also be working with the Loudon Agricultural Commission
on a summer workshop regarding raising & processing broilers.
Contact us for more information
Look for the addition of farm raised broilers (5 1/2+ pound average) for sale this summer!
We will also be working with the Loudon Agricultural Commission
on a summer workshop regarding raising & processing broilers.
Contact us for more information
November 2015
Processing room is completed - poly walls up, lights on & doors attached!!
Processing room is completed - poly walls up, lights on & doors attached!!
August 15, 2015
We had the wonderful opportunity to meet Adam Danforth,
James Beard and IACP Award Winning Author of
"Butchering Poultry, Rabbit, Lamb, Goat, and Pork" and "Butchering Beef",
at the Black Trumpet Restaurant & observe him parting out one of our rabbits as well as a locally raised ewe.
We had the wonderful opportunity to meet Adam Danforth,
James Beard and IACP Award Winning Author of
"Butchering Poultry, Rabbit, Lamb, Goat, and Pork" and "Butchering Beef",
at the Black Trumpet Restaurant & observe him parting out one of our rabbits as well as a locally raised ewe.
July 2015
The NEW Lakes Region Local Food Guide is out!
Click here to view a copy and start eating local!
The NEW Lakes Region Local Food Guide is out!
Click here to view a copy and start eating local!
June 2015
Love getting these Facebook updates:
"The two Cali does I got from you back in March just kindled their first litters.
One doe had 9 kits and the other had 7, so the numbers were perfect and everything looks just great.
Looks like we are up and running, thanks for the OUTSTANDING breeding stock Song Away, we couldn't be happier about how the rabbits are doing." Eric R., Sleep Hollow, NY
Love getting these Facebook updates:
"The two Cali does I got from you back in March just kindled their first litters.
One doe had 9 kits and the other had 7, so the numbers were perfect and everything looks just great.
Looks like we are up and running, thanks for the OUTSTANDING breeding stock Song Away, we couldn't be happier about how the rabbits are doing." Eric R., Sleep Hollow, NY
Spring 2015
We have a drawn up 10' x 12' floor plan for a new rabbit processing room.
At the end of April we had specialist from the Cooperative Extension, facilities engineers and others come in to give us valuable input regarding our design and also other options we may want to consider.
Few more tweeks are needed but we anticipate construction starting later this summer!
We have a drawn up 10' x 12' floor plan for a new rabbit processing room.
At the end of April we had specialist from the Cooperative Extension, facilities engineers and others come in to give us valuable input regarding our design and also other options we may want to consider.
Few more tweeks are needed but we anticipate construction starting later this summer!
2/5/2015
You can find a picture of Song Away's Joy and her beautiful Californian kits
in this publication of Grit Magazine's Guide to Backyard Rabbits!
You can find a picture of Song Away's Joy and her beautiful Californian kits
in this publication of Grit Magazine's Guide to Backyard Rabbits!
You can see our Californians on page 8
12/18/2014
At Home In New Hampshire recently did a blog on eating local.
Click here to see what Cindy had to write about Song Away!
At Home In New Hampshire recently did a blog on eating local.
Click here to see what Cindy had to write about Song Away!
10/14/2014
Surprise visit!
Bill Thibeault & his friend Paul stopped by to look for a Californian buck.
We consider ourselves beyond privileged to have met Bill and have him visit our rabbitry
and extremely proud to have Tebo's Rabbits bloodlines running thick throughout our stock!
To read more about Bill and Tebo's rabbits click here.
Surprise visit!
Bill Thibeault & his friend Paul stopped by to look for a Californian buck.
We consider ourselves beyond privileged to have met Bill and have him visit our rabbitry
and extremely proud to have Tebo's Rabbits bloodlines running thick throughout our stock!
To read more about Bill and Tebo's rabbits click here.
Bill evaluating Song Away's Monty.
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Bill evaluating Song Away's Klaus - his friend purchased Klaus for his breeding program.
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Home Sweet Farm!
1990
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Barn built in 2002
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Steve December 2010
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August 2014
This greenhouse is actually will be a "cold house" based on Eliot Coleman's Winter Harvest Handbook.
Some of the harvest to be shared with the rabbits during those cold winter months!
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Farm "Helpers"
hard to find good help these days ... these three are often found lounging around!
hard to find good help these days ... these three are often found lounging around!
"Dogs are miracles with paws." ~ Susan Kennedy (and so is Miss Kitty!)
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Ms. Kitty - "Biological Exterminator"
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"Where there is music, there is love!"
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