At Nettles Farm, you have several choices for a true agritourism experience. It starts with a leisurely walk from the Willows Inn to the farm, where you can spend as much time as you like visiting the various elements of a real working farm.

Mangalitsa Pig

Kids love our Mangalitsa pig. Originally from Hungary, he is so different from any pig you have seen. Compare him to his American companion when you visit us!

Stay Overnight

For a deeper experience, stay overnight in one of our two lodgings: the Farmhouse Suite, or the Nettles Farm Cabin. Revel in the quiet of Nettles Farm, and the sounds of its animals and wildlife.

Farm Workshop

For an even more in-depth experience, join one of our small weekend workshops that feature hands-on learning about such practical skills as turning your backyard chicken into a stewing hen, how to fillet a whole salmon, and other farming skills.

When your backyard layer is no longer laying, take the next step and turn it into a stewing hen. This once common soup and stew ingredient is nowhere available any more, the product of our industrial poultry system. Once you have tasted this bird, you will have new respect for your backyard layer.

I do plan on having several poultry workshops in the coming year. The format for this busier season ahead is to hold the workshop on a Saturday.  We will start at 10 am, and go until everyone has had a chance to kill, pluck, and eviscerate, two birds, which they will take home with them. Cost is $100/person, 15% off if you stay overnight either at the farm or the Willows.

We have vegetables, flowers and 100 laying hens. Our two greenhouses allow for some warm weather vegetables, as well as early and late season plantings. Everything we're growing will end up on the dinner plates of our guests at the Willows.