Lucky Duck Farm

12/04/2016

1:30 this afternoon

12/04/2016

Noon

12/04/2016

Also glad not to be on the road today because this is happening:

10:30 this morning

12/04/2016

Sorry folks, no egg delivery today! It's that time of year again, so we'll be switching to every-other-week deliveries to Open Produce for the duration of the winter. Production was especially low this week because we have another mink causing mayhem. Our duck population has been decimated (ducks sleep on the ground, making them more vulnerable than the chickens who roost up high). The surviving birds are a bit traumatized and not laying very much.

08/01/2016

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/08/01/these-may-be-the-most-magnificent-portraits-of-goats-and-sheep-youll-ever-see/?hpid=hp_no-name_photo-story-d%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

When Kevin Horan moved to a quaint island in Washington state, along with it came a small herd of woolly neighbors.

07/22/2016

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ywdqiyoQNgQ

The Faroe Islands have some of the most beautiful roads in the world. It is impossible to describe what it feels like driving through the green valleys and u...

07/22/2016

Tired of waiting for Google to map the archipelago, Faroe Islanders have launched Sheep View 360, enlisting their ovine population to do the leg work

06/18/2016

Makin' hay while the sun shines!

04/15/2016

Happy Friday! This little guy and his brother were born early yesterday morning. The lamb count is now at 8, and they are all boys. For the curious, this lamb's daddy is 100% Icelandic and mama is 50% Katahdin, 25% Polypay, 25% East Friesian. The product of such mixed-up breeding? 100% adorable.

04/04/2016

Just witnessed this in the barn. "Gee, grandpa, what nice horns you have!" Heimdal wins the award for most tolerant ram ever.

03/23/2016

Dear Lucky Duck Farm Fans, please consider supporting this GoFundMe campaign to help our friends, Jim and Kim Hart. They are genuinely good people, and we think the world of them and what they are trying to do on their farm. Many of you have asked us over the years, "what more can I do to help?" and we have usually answered, "keep buying good products from good farmers, and keep asking questions about how your food is being produced." Well, today you have the chance to do a little more. If you're lucky enough to have room in your budget, please please please consider lending a helping hand to some incredibly well-deserving folks. Jim and Kim were students of mine in the Central Illinois Farm Beginnings class several years ago, they are hard-working, kind, capable people, and they are trying to recover from some really rotten luck this past winter. You may not know them personally, but you know us, and it would mean the world to us if some of the Lucky Duck extended family could show some love to Hart's Heritage Farm. Thanks!

I am a small independant farmer in Central Illinois. Farming is in my DNA, the picture is of me when I was just a little guy sitting on my Great Grandfather's Fergusen TE20 tractor. I am at my Grandpa, Gussie Cary's farm and his farm store is behind me. Last December was the worst time I have had...

03/21/2016

Who's that handsome guy on page 13 of the latest Modern Farmer magazine? (PS - Thanks go to Lynn Freehill-Maye for a great piece and Kelty Luber and Kevin Miyazaki for the photos!)