InterGenerate HERITAGE EGG CO-OP Our Heritage and Our Future...In an Eggshell
Join InterGenerate’s
new Heritage Egg Co-op at John Jay Homestead: learn the basics of
backyard farming, enjoy lots of fresh eggs and support breed diversity.
HOW IT WORKS Join the Egg CSA. With the help of experienced farmers, you’ll raise the chickens and share the harvest.
Bond with the chicks. This
is our first year, so you’ll have a chance to care for the chicks from
infancy through adulthood. We expect your TLC to pay off with lots of
fresh eggs by the summer.
Learn basic chicken raising practices. All members must attend the workshop “Chicken Keeping Basics” and take part in the weekly care and egg harvests.
Support breed diversity.
We’ll raise only endangered heritage chickens in our coop. We’ll also
record our findings and teach others about alternatives to the mass
produced eggs you get in the supermarket.
HOW DO I REGISTER? To Learn more or to register, visit the InterGenerate website at www.intergenerateny.org
Pictures of the Coop and Opening Day
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WHY THE JOHN JAY HOMESTEAD?
The
John Jay Homestead is the perfect site for a Heritage Co-op. In 1787,
our First Chief Justice John Jay created a commercial farm on this
property, originally of 600+ acres. The last generation of Jays to own
‘Bedford Farm’ from 1915-1953, produced food here for the New York City
and local market, with eggs being their top seller. The current site
offers 62 acres, foundations of the original coops and plenty of fertile
soil.
In a
letter written by John Jay on May 19, 1807 to his daughter, Sara Louisa
Jay:
"Your hen has one chicken - she
killed five or six of another hen - I
should certainly kill her, if she was not
yours -
we keep her confined - The aversion
she has to the other chickens, and the pains she takes to kill them, are very remarkable- I have
never known such another instance."
