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We raise livestock here, grass and grain fed beef cattle, hogs, and poultry. Our animals are not only raised naturally on good additive-free diets at TwoLynns Farm, but we pride ourselves on treating every animal with respect and kindness. What we lack in heavey production, we surely make up for in a quality product from nurturing care and attention. Have you ever played "keep away' with a Hereford bull or raced a chicken to the barn? TwoLynns Farm also raises Pygmy goats for pets. Our goats are free-range eaters, like everyone else here, and they raise the cutest kids in colors ranging from silver to white, grey, shiny black, and even caramel shades. The goats grow to about 17" tall and make great playmates for kids. They don't require a whole lot of room and get along well with other domestic pets. Here at TwoLynns Farm, we encourage visitors to drop in and see our operation.You need to like animals because they wander all over TwoLynns Farm. There are turkeys in the horse barn, chickens in the potting shed, and hogs in the smoke house (the old homestead smoke house, that is, with a fenced yard attached for the happy porkers to play in). Also, there are ducks and geese on the pond and in the creek and what farm would be complete without cats, dogs, and horses. But raising livestock was just the begining for TwoLynns Farm. Here in Shirley, an out-of-the-way tiny West Virginia town where the deer outnumber the residents, the sky was the limit and we have the hills to prove it. We found several abandoned fruit orchards hidden around the farm so we're bringing those trees back to service. There were apples, paw paws, and plums hiding in the woodlots, supplemented by more varieties of apples, cherries, pears, and peaches we have added since. We're hoping for our first substantial harvest this year. Of course, our animals love the fruit and we have to share the bounty with the local wildlife, but a roadside stand is our goal. You can't have fruit trees with no berries or grapes so we're growing those as quickly as we can. If the varieties we have chosen do well, we might expand them into a U-pick business. We have blackberries, raspberries, stawberries, currants, and grapes. Part of our preparations for building an agri-tourism business is procuring a lot of tools to use in an interactive farm experience for online AND in-person visitors. TwoLynns Farm is about to embark on our fifth season of maple sugaring and here is where in-person visitors are really handy-- you just hand them a cup of maple tea and set them on the visitors' bench to stoke the wood-fired evaporator which boils down the sap for our homemade maple syrup. Maple sugaring is still somewhat of a novelty in our neck of the woods, although it is a time-honored tradition among older generations of West Virginia folk We hang sap buckets every Febuary and people just stop to tell us how their grandparents used to boil sap for maple syrup way back when. We hustle them right up to the sugar shack, a retired milk house by the barn, for their tea and a warm seat by the fire (and the woodpile). Our maple syrup business is still limited to those who can make it to the farm in person because we just don't have enough to warrant shipping yet, but here in West Virginia at the farm, you will be able to get it in glass bottles, or the plastic half-pints, pints, and quarts. Besides our homemade maple syrup, we hope to run enough sap this year to add maple candies and jelly to our offerings. We have former woodsy neighbors looking in their woodlots for Sugar Maples to tap this year so they can turn it into our sugar shack and take away a proportionate amount of TwoLynns maple syrup in payment for their sap. It's a great way to see and meet folks on a regular basis, instead of waiting for them to come out of hibernation in the spring. TwoLynns Farm will blossum in the spring and we will be filling up the potting shed with hanging plants, vegetable starts, and flowers for sale along with our fruit and maple products well into the summer. We will also be revving up the sawmill for a measured harvest of our abundant oak, walnut, pine, and sycamore trees for everything from board fencing to barn boards for repairs, birdhouses, stawberry planters, and window boxes. We usually have some air dried boards on hand if the urge to make something overcomes you. And if you just have to have hundred-year old farm board we have a small supply. During the hunting seasons we allow a small amount of hunters to harvest the wildlife, strictly controlled by the farm and state regulations. Our wildlife has been eating out of the feed bunkers scattered around the farm, keeping them fit and strong, and allowing TwoLynns Farm to manage wildlife as we do our livestock. We have an abundance of white tail deer, wild turkeys, squirrels, and in the spring and fall canadian geese. There are many ways to participate in the farm life at TwoLynns Farm. You can come to hike the nature paths, watch the wildlife change thru the seasons, see the operation of farm life or just have coffee and watch the clouds drift by. We hope to be a link for urbanites everywhere to the truly personal and rewarding aspects of farm life (without any of the travails). TwoLynns Farm will keep an offering of its finest farm-related products, recipes, stories, and wisdoms on our website to keep our freinds in touch with TwoLynns Farm, Shirley, West Virginia until you have a chance to visit and "SET A SPELL".
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Welcome to TwoLynns Farm in Shirley, West Virginia, fledgling upstart in the trendy business of "agri-tourism". We're just getting our feet wet in sculpting farm products and services available to the more rurally challenged. TwoLynns Farm itself was an innovation to satisfy the varying tastes and abilities of it's owners, the two Lynns.