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.

 

Farm Workshop

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

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.

Each summer when we slaughter our laying hens to make room for the new flock, we allow guests to participate. Each guest will take home with them two processed stewers. Cost is $100/person.

We have vegetables, flowers and 90 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, The Taproot, or the Saturday Island Farmer's Market.