Red Rooster Farm

	If you are in the area, stop in for a visit! Check here for a map. In addition to maple syrup, jam and other items you see below, we will offer seasonal vegetables and fruit from our garden. From lettuce in the spring to strawberries, raspberries, Walla Walla onions, peaches in the summer, and sweet corn. Also for sale are selected items from our personal collection of country and farm related antiques.
	Handmade soap made right here at Red Rooster Farm is now available in our Farm Store. These unscented and lightly scented herbals soaps include: Lavender, Chamomile, Sandalwood Oatmeal, Wintergreen/Pomegranate, Vanilla Green Tea, Juniper Berry, and Oatmeal. Our soap comes in a variety of eye pleasing shapes and sizes, ranging from 2.5 oz up to 5 oz. Call for mail order or stop in at our Farm Store. And, starting at only $2.00 for a 2.5oz bar, they make great gifts.
	This season's garlic is braided into a perfect decoration for your kitchen. It will be difficult for you to decide whether to use the garlic in your cooking or just look at it. You will be able to do both for a long time since our long storing garlic keeps for about 1 year. The variety of garlic we use is called New York White, the traditional variety found in New York's Italian markets. It is also known as Polish White. Garlic braids are available for sale usually starting in July. Order soon since we typically sell out of our limited quantity by mid-fall. Garlic braids are $6.50 each for a 9-head braid as shown here. Call or email with your shipping address for a quote on shipping costs. We accept PayPal. The following is an email received from a customer in California: Hi, Just thought you'd like to know the garlic arrived safely and was so well packaged. It's beautiful stuff! -- will there be enough? (lol!) Seriously, I look forward to sharing it with friends & family, and I will be sure to tell them you have a Web site. I've already used the garlic to make pasta sauce and to flavor a pot of pintos to perfection. It's a wonderful variety -- dense, crisp, juicy bulbs with especially good flavor. It's not like the local stuff you pick up here -- it looks different, cooks up differently, and imparts a better flavor -- plus, it looks nice "just hangin' around!" Keep me on your e-mail list for next year. :o) Lauren
	Are you a popcorn connoisseur? Even if you simply enjoy a bowl of hot, crunchy popcorn while watching TV, you should try our organic (not certified) white popcorn. On our small, organic farm, we grow and harvest and shell by hand an excellent tasting popcorn. We grow popcorn using organic principals without chemical pesticides and herbicides. Popcorn is nutritious, high in fiber, naturally low in calories and fat, contains no sodium and no sugar, making it a great snack food. We've popped it in the microwave, on the stove top, and in an air popper – and it always tastes great. The popcorn we sell is fresh from the latest growing season. It keeps a long time on the shelf but can be frozen if you prefer. The best thing about our popcorn is that it simply tastes better. We grow a white variety that has a tasty corn flavor in a medium sized popped kernel. If you've tasted so called 'gourmet' large kernel popcorn and found it tasteless like cardboard or if you've had prepackaged microwave popcorn and found it artificial flavored and oily, you will definitely enjoy Red Rooster Farm's popcorn. If you can't make it in to our Farm Store, we ship in 10 or 20 pound quantites. Make sure you order enough to give some as gifts! Call or email with your shipping zip code for a price.
	Starting around March 1, we tap Sugar Maple trees found scattered around our farm here along the Shiawassee River. Only 100% pure maple syrup is produced and bottled. Quarts of "liquid gold" are $15, pints are $9. Unfortunately, supply is limited! Call or email for availability. Include your shipping address for a quote on shipping costs. We accept PayPal.
	Our chickens enjoy a natural life style. They are not caged and instead graze and scratch for bugs, worms, etc. Of course, we supplement the food they find themselves with organic grain and organic layer feed. An average box of a dozen eggs contains brown, speckled, and blue/green pastel colors. Since our feathered ladies enjoy a varied and natural diet, their eggs have dark yellow yolks that stand up tall in the center of thick whites. We usually have eggs available from our farm store all year. Once you try these fresh eggs, you'll be hooked!
	Spice up your food and your life with Red Rooster Farm's Fresh Dried Organic Herbs now available at the Red Rooster Farm Store. We offer a large variety of seasonal dried herbs, organically grown, dried, and bottled right here on our small farm. Fresh herbs are available in season. Dried herbs are available all year and sold in glass jars with metal lids. Bay Leaves .18 oz $4.00 Greek Oregano .23 oz $3.00 Basil .42 oz $3.50 Coriander 1.8 oz $3.50 Dill Weed .25 oz $3.50 Tarragon .15 oz $3.00 Rosemary .26 oz $3.50 Poppy Seeds 2.7 oz $4.50 Thyme .26 oz $3.50 Rubbed Sage .23 oz $3.00 Red Pepper Flakes .81 oz $3.50 For more photos, details, and usage tips, take a look at our herb photo set on our Flickr photo site. Call or email with your shipping address for a quote on shipping costs. We accept PayPal.
	During the slower, winter months, Denise spends some of her time crocheting rugs. Her handmade crocheted rugs have a braided look to them. They fool people every time into thinking they are looking at a braided rug. Nice quality rugs made from 10-12 yards of older store stock fabric. The fabric was purchased from a quilter, most fabrics being from the 1980's and earlier. There are many very nice quality fabrics used in these, Cranston Prints being one, and other good brand names. These hold up very well for rugs. Having made these for 30 years, she can tell you that they have stood the test of time in durability. Made from cotton blends, they are very easy and economical to care for. Put them into the wash machine on warm or cold water wash and air or machine dry. No need to worry about shrinking or bleeding of colors. The technique used to make them creates an interlocking of fabric strips, so no problems with these coming apart either. They are very comfortable under foot so besides being pretty and decorative, they serve as a nice cushion for work areas such as in front of the kitchen sink. They also work well in heavy traffic areas such as entrances to outside where dirt is a problem. Just toss them in the wash machine and dry them for easy clean up. They blend well with any decor. Rug sizes vary. In general they are about 2 feet wide by 3 feet long -- Only $20.
	We try to have crisp, fresh lettuce available all the time. Right now, it is especially good tasting. There are typically over a dozen different varieties of colorful lettuce growing. We mix all of them together so your salads look like a Mexican pinata exploded!
	We have white, black, and as shown here, gray fleeces available. (Contact us for availability.) Typically we sell raw fleeces, straight from the sheep's back. Icelandics are usually sheared twice per year, once in late winter/early spring and once in mid fall. These sheep grow wool amazingly fast. The shorter early spring fleece is fine for felting. Handspinners value the longer, clean fall fleeces such as this one. Check our craft shop site for fleeces currently available: redroosterfarm.etsy.com. In general, the fleece of Icelandics is dual coated, with a fine, soft undercoat called thel and a longer, coarser outer coat called tog. The tog fiber with a spinning count of 56-60 and a micron count of 27-30, grows to a length of 6-8 inches in six months. It is lustrous, strong, water- and wear-resistant, and sheds off the rain and weather. Thel is the soft downy undercoat, with a spinning count of 64-70 and a micron count of 19-22, growing to a length of 2-4 inches. The thel provides the loft for the outer coat and insulation for the sheep. Tog is a true wool, and is not a kemp or guard hair. The two coats can be separated by hand for special projects, or they may be processed together. The traditional lopi is a lightly spun blend of tog and thel. Thel is very soft and downy, with an irregular crimp and can be used for baby garments, and for the fine shawls in the style of the Wedding Shawl. The tog is similar to mohair- wavy or corkscrewed rather than crimped and is wonderful in worsted spinning.
	We have listed a few of our products with LocalHarvest.org. LocalHarvest maintains a reliable "living" public nationwide directory of small farms, farmers markets, and other local food sources. Their search engine helps people find products from family farms, local sources of sustainably grown food, and encourages them to establish direct contact with small farms in their local area. Their online store helps small farms (such as us) develop markets for some of their products beyond their local area. Take a look...
	We have other products available depending on the season. Contact us for availability of eggs, wool for felting, raw fleeces for spinning, alfalfa hay, as well as seasonal fresh vegetables, lettuce, and fruit.