Welcome to LYNCH CREEK Farm & Antiques

Shop in style at a rustic, but sophisticated, country destination.  Experience a working farm.  Select English and French antiques.  Tour our year-round greenhouses.  See beautiful cut flowers, potted herbs and bulbs.  Confer with a professional interior designer.  Explore an authentic log cabin.  Walk through an heirloom apple orchard.  Learn how we raise natural grass-fed beef, barnyard chickens, keep honey bees, grow healthy vegetables and make vinegars.  Take home something delicious to eat.  Catch a glimpse of wild deer, turkey, fox and hawks.  Plan a healthy adventure in the country today.  Have a picnic lunch before you depart.

Visit LYNCH CREEK. There's something fun to do for your entire family - especially the children. You'll be pleasantly surprised as you explore our park-like - 55 acre farm - that is entirely in Conservation Easement with the Tar River Land Conservancy. We're just a 45-minute drive, northeast of Raleigh (see Location Map and Driving Directions below) in Rocky Ford, NC.  Please call and let us know you are planning to visit though - that's just country etiquette.

Take a Virtual Farm Tour.  See what Products and Services we offer.  Meet us at an upcoming Festival or Event.  Stay current with the fresh-picked produce we have for sale by subscribing to our weekly Market Menu. Buy the highest quality natural, grass-fed beef from Lynch Creek Farm, where our beef cattle are raised and our farming methods are open to public scrutiny.

E-mail or telephone us for help finding that "something special" gift you are trying to locate or with any questions you may have - we ship anywhere in the USA, satisfaction guaranteed.

Whenever you can, remember to "Buy Locally" - become a "Locavore" (the 2007 New Oxford American Dictionary's Word-of-the-Year).

 Proprietors:         Bob Radcliffe - Bee, Cattle, Chicken, Vegetables, Farm and Greenhouse Operations
                              Kerry Carter - Antiques, Interior Design, Flowers, Herbs and Vinegars
                             
Postal Address:     1973 Rocky Ford Road, Kittrell, NC 27544  (we actually live in Rocky Ford - Franklin County)

Telephone:           252-492-2600 (B); 252-433-0272 (H)

Business Hours:    By Appointment. Saturday Market Menu Sales 10am-3pm.

Websites:             www.lynchcreek.com and lynchcreek.farmnotebook.com

Feedback:              Send us your Comments and Questions

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                [Note the Red Star above at Lynch Creek Farm & Antiques near Kittrell, NC]

    Durham,  Henderson,  Louisburg,  Raleigh,  Wake Forest

Market Menu (Week of June 29th - July 5th, 2008)

Lynch Creek posts a Market Menu of fresh products for sale at our Farm. Menu items may be purchased on Saturdays, or you may call to have us hold your order for pickup. Our Market Menu varies from depending upon what is growing and ripening for harvest in our greenhouses and outdoor gardens. Our products are pesticide-free and grown to organic standards. We expect to be certified USDA 100% Organic in 2008.

ITEMS AVAILABLE NOW --> (Yukon Gold and Austrian Crescent Fingerling Potatoes (NOW) & Big Beef Tomatoes (SOON!)

Brown Med/Lg Eggs $3/doz.	Woodland Honey $5/jar, 8oz.

FUTURE ITEMS -->  Natural Grass-fed Beef (Weaver Street Market), Organic Grass-fed Beef (Q4/2010)

QUALITY HORSE HAY Available June 1, 2008 --> No Herbicides, Pesticides, Chemical Fertilizers! Clean Standard Square Bales. Cut w/o May 19, 2008. In Dry, Barn Storage.
400+ Bales of OAT HAY (w/touch Ladino Clover). 400+ Bales of ORCHARDGRASS.
Call for details. Stop by to inspect. Pickup preferred. Delivery can be arranged.
Call Bob @ 252-433-0272.

Stay current with our Fresh Products For Sale - Subscribe to our Free E-mail Market Menu.
 

Upcoming LYNCH CREEK Events

[Year-round] Agri-Cultural Tourism
We are now a Franklin County, NC Piedmont Trail featured site. Visit this new NC website for details about the Art Roads and Farm Trails you can experience while vacationing in North Carolina. Look under the "Hushpuppies, Pimento Cheese & Sweet Tea" menu in "Louisburg" for Lynch Creek Farm and Antiques at HomegrownHandmade.com. Plan a NC road trip next year!

 

[May 16-17, 2009]  6th Annual Franklin County Farm Foods and Crafts Weekend Tour
Designed to "promote a sustainable way of life in Franklin County, support buying local products, support the local art community, promote green space and environmental stewardship".  This is unquestionably a family event - with many fascinating things for children to experience.  Select and visit any number of Franklin County Farms from 11:00am until 5:00pm. Bring a picnic lunch. For all the details, see the Tour Guide posted at www.FranklinCountyFarmFresh.com. There are several new special events that have been added to this weekend: 1) Local Foods Festival, 6:00pm Saturday evening May 16 at Person Place, North Main Street, Louisburg, NC - local foods prepared by area chefs plus live country/bluegrass music - picnic-style - bring a blanket or folding chair; 2) Weekend Photography Contest with child, teenager and adult age groups on a Farm Life theme; 3) A Bicycle Tour Event with a "green/local/organic" twist - sample foods along the way; 4) A Running Race - Fun Run for Kids, Short Race for your "significant other", and serious 5K/10K for Competitors; 5) A Beginners Fishing Clinic and Rodeo - 1/2 day Pond Fishing at its best for the Family; and other Events are still being added - more to follow. Some things you can see and experience at Lynch Creek Farm include. . . .

Barred Rock Hens	The Potato Patch	Gardens-to-Go	Raised-bed Garden	Honey Bee Houses	Year-round Vegetables	Premium Grass-fed Beef
Country Bluegrass	Future Smokehouse	Antique Showroom	Heated Seedling Greenhouse	Rainbarrel Goldfish	Real Lynch Creek	Solar Hoop House

• Live Country/Bluegrass Music (compliments of Ridgeway Opry House)

• Hay Rides for the Kids

• See our baby calves - just one month old

• Meet jenny "Molly" - our cattle guard donkey

• Tour our Log Cabin and see Miss Lou's Quilting Studio. (Photos)

• Wildcraft some Honeysuckle

• A free plant for each paid attendee

LYNCH CREEK Recommended Reading (and Gift Ideas)

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By Barbara Kingsolver Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. Hang on for the ride: With characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Their good-humored search yields surprising discoveries about turkey sex life and overly zealous zucchini plants, en route to a food culture that's better for the neighborhood and also better on the table. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and diversified farms at the center of the American diet. "This is the story of a year in which we made every attempt to feed ourselves animals and vegetables whose provenance we really knew . . . and of how our family was changed by our first year of deliberately eating food produced from the same place where we worked, went to school, loved our neighbors, drank the water, and breathed the air."

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Omnivores Dilemma   A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan - Author Book: Hardback | 229 x 152mm | 320 pages | ISBN 9781594200823 | Penguin Press

On the NY Times Bestseller Non-Fiction Book List. The bestselling author of The Botany of Desire explores the ecology of eating to unveil why we consume what we consume in the twenty-first century. "What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the omnivore's dilemma. Choosing from among the countless potential foods nature offers, humans have had to learn what is safe, and what isn't—which mushrooms should be avoided, for example, and which berries we can enjoy. Today, as America confronts what can only be described as a national eating disorder, the omnivore's dilemma has returned with an atavistic vengeance. The cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast-food outlet has thrown us back on a bewildering landscape where we once again have to worry about which of those tasty-looking morsels might kill us. At the same time we're realizing that our food choices also have profound implications for the health of our environment. The Omnivore's Dilemma is bestselling author Michael Pollan's brilliant and eye-opening exploration of these little-known but vitally important dimensions of eating in America.   The Grassfed Gourmet Cookbook by Shannon Hayes See: www.eatwild.com Finally. A cookbook that does justice to the superb quality of the meat, eggs, and dairy products from grass-fed animals. Shannon Hayes takes the mystery our of cooking products from pastured animals. Once you've read her book, you, too, will be a "grassfed gourmet." Pasture Perfect Pasture Perfect by Jo Robinson. Pasture Perfect takes you on a "pasture walk" of a grass-based farm where dedicated farmers raise their cattle on grass alone. The animals never leave the farm and live natural, stress-free lives eating their native diet. Next, you'll be given a tour of a factory farm and see the night and day differences. It will be very clear why Old MacDonald doesn't live there anymore.