OUR STORY
Over 20 years in the Valley
Our children were born and raised on this farm in the Huon Valley, but we haven't always enjoyed this rural life:
Mr. VDA started life in Melbourne and
Mrs. VDA is originally from New Zealand, although she lived in the city there, the family kept a small flock of hens and so started her love of poultry.
From Mainland Australia and New Zealand via Scotland and America... we've lived a few places over the years, but there's nowhere we'd rather be than right here in Franklin!
ABOUT VDApron
Mrs. VDA has kept chickens for as long as she can remember. Her favourite hen from her childhood in New Zealand was a Wellsummer cross named "Watermelon" which the family hand-raised from a day old. The chicks lived in a cardboard box in the cupboard housing the hot-water cylinder and the children played with the chicks every day. despite what one hears about not handling chicks too much, those chicks grew up to be the most friendly, people-centred hens imaginable.
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Now with a family and farm of their own, Mr. and Mrs. VDA love living a simple life surrounded by their children and animals, working with their hands and stewarding their land and resources in the Huon Valley for their children and grandchildren.
FREE RANGE & GMO FREE
Natural, healthy living for us and our animals is important to us, that's why we're committed to providing plenty of space for our hens to free-range and we feed them a grain mix free from questionable vegetable oils.
We also recycle and re-use, even returning the grain bags to our supplier who re-fills them.
Our egg cartons are biodegradable, but we also encourage you to return them to be re-filled.