Our Eggs are for Sale

Please order eggs using the link to the left.

 

Our hens are happily laying, and we are selling eggs!  We also sell delicious duck eggs from our Welsh Harlequins.

 

Welsh Harlequin ducks offer a unique opportunity to eat duck eggs without that "gamey" taste. WH ducks prefer to spend their days waddling about the pasture foraging for seeds and grass, dandelions, worms and insects, and berries. Unlike pond ducks, they do not eat fish, frogs, snails, etc. 

 

Because of this, our WH duck eggs have a very similar taste to chicken eggs with one main difference: they are very rich tasting. We find that a whole duck egg omelet is kind of like a big slice of chocolate cake - a little too rich for breakfast! We usually mix our hen and duck eggs for a super healthy (and high in iron) meal. 

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Wondering why you should buy Belle Vie Farm eggs? Our hens and ducks are free-range during the day on pasture and in forest.

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Our hens and ducks eat what they want and need. We have chickens on traditional pasture (with our goats and donkeys) and chickens in our silvopasture (forest pasture). The USDA defines silvopasture as the deliberate integration of trees and grazing livestock operations on the same land.

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Belle Vie Farm, along with its next door property, has a total of 34 acres. About 20 of those acres are in forest. With a vision of preserving our area's woodland while simultaneously pursuing farming, we have chosen to integrate agroforestry into our practices. There are five types of agroforestry, and currently Belle Vie is engaging with forest farming and silvopasture.

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Both properties are in the Carrboro watershed, meaning our properties are an integral part of Carrboro's drinking water quality (we use no pesticides on our crops). The USDA supports agroforestry within watersheds: within a watershed, agroforestry practices can resemble a living patchwork quilt that connects headwater forests through agricultural lands to urban areas... providing cleaner water for communities - both locally and downstream - and other public benefits.