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Welcome to LYNCH CREEK Farm & Antiques

Shop in style at a rustic, but sophisticated, country destination.  Experience a working farm.  Select English and French antiques.  Tour our year-round greenhouses.  See beautiful cut flowers, potted herbs and bulbs.  Confer with a professional interior designer.  Explore an authentic log cabin.  Walk through an heirloom apple orchard.  Learn how we raise natural grass-fed beef, barnyard chickens, keep honey bees, grow healthy vegetables and make vinegars.  Take home something delicious to eat.  Catch a glimpse of wild deer, turkey, fox and hawks.  Plan a healthy adventure in the country today.  Have a picnic lunch before you depart.

Visit LYNCH CREEK. There's something fun to do for your entire family - especially the children. You'll be pleasantly surprised as you explore our park-like - 55 acre farm - that is entirely in Conservation Easement with the Tar River Land Conservancy. We're just a 45-minute drive, northeast of Raleigh (see Location Map and Driving Directions below) in Rocky Ford, NC.  Please call and let us know you are planning to visit though - that's just country etiquette.

Take a Virtual Farm Tour.  See what Products and Services we offer.  Meet us at an upcoming Festival or Event.  Stay current with the fresh-picked produce we have for sale by subscribing to our weekly Market MenuBuy the highest quality natural, grass-fed beef from Lynch Creek Farm, where our beef cattle are raised and our farming methods are open to public scrutiny.

E-mail or telephone us for help finding that "something special" gift you are trying to locate or with any questions you may have - we ship anywhere in the USA, satisfaction guaranteed.

Whenever you can, remember to "Buy Locally" - become a "Locavore" (the 2007 New Oxford American Dictionary's Word-of-the-Year).


Contacting LYNCH CREEK

 Proprietors:         Bob Radcliffe - Bee, Cattle, Chicken, Vegetables, Farm and Greenhouse Operations
                              Kerry Carter -
Antiques, Interior Design, Flowers, Herbs and Vinegars
                             

Postal Address:    
1973 Rocky Ford Road, Kittrell, NC 27544  (we actually live in Rocky Ford - Franklin County)

Telephone:           252-492-2600 (B); 252-433-0272 (H)

Business Hours:    By Appointment. Saturday Market Menu Sales 10am-3pm.

Websites:             www.lynchcreek.com and lynchcreek.farmnotebook.com

Feedback:              Send us your Comments and Questions

Market Menu:       Subscribe Now.


Location Map

   
                [Note the Red Star above at Lynch Creek Farm & Antiques near Kittrell, NC]


Driving Directions from . . .

    Durham,  Henderson,  Louisburg,  Raleigh,  Wake Forest

 

Recent LYNCH CREEK News Releases

Nov-2008    Governor's Awards for Outstanding Volunteer Service
Nov-2008    Fall Hay - Cut, Rolled and Stored
Nov-2008    4-H SOS Kids Tour Lynch Creek
Oct-2008    October Farm Journal
Sep-2008    Ben Franklin Society - New Service Organization Initiative
Aug-2008    SHALLOTS - Beautiful and Delicious - from Seed
Jun-2008    Johnson County Agribusiness Council Tours Lynch Creek
Jun-2008    It's Official: Devons are Tasty and Tender
May-2008    Lynch Creek Organic Hay Harvested
May-2008    5th Annual Farm, Foods & Crafts Tour
May-2008    Field Trial of Organic Weed Control Paper Underway
Apr-2008    Spring is Calving Time
Apr-2008    Lynch Creek Mill Tour with Tom Magnuson
Feb-2008    NC Specialty Crop Award (updated 8/1/2008)
Feb-2008    "Transitioning to Organic Production" Seminar
Jan-2008    Local Historic Research Initiative Underway

-ongoing-   Lynch Creek Journal [Local Historic Research Blog]

 

Market Menu (Week of November 16th - November 22nd, 2008)

Lynch Creek posts a Market Menu of fresh products for sale at our Farm. Menu items may be purchased on Saturdays, or you may call to have us hold your order for pickup. Our Market Menu varies from depending upon what is growing and ripening for harvest in our greenhouses and outdoor gardens. Our products are pesticide-free and grown to organic standards. We expect to be certified USDA 100% Organic in 2008.

ITEMS AVAILABLE NOW --> Shallots and . . .

Brown Med/Lg Eggs

$3/doz.

Woodland Honey

$5/jar, 8oz.

FUTURE ITEMS -->  Natural Grass-fed Beef (Weaver Street Market), Organic Grass-fed Beef (Q4/2010)


Stay current with our Fresh Products For Sale - Subscribe to our Free E-mail Market Menu.


No Herbicides, Pesticides, Chemical Fertilizers!

QUALITY HORSE HAY Available June 1, 2008 --> Clean Standard Square Bales. 1st Cut week of May 19, 2008. In Dry, Barn Storage. OAT HAY (w/touch Ladino Clover) and ORCHARDGRASS.

QUALITY HORSE HAY Available November 1, 2008 --> 4'x4' Round Bales. 2nd Cut week of October 20, 2008. In field on Palettes with Plastic rain tarp - both clean and mixed ORCHARDGRASS.

Call Bob @ 252-433-0272 for details. Stop by to inspect. Delivery can be arranged.

Photos-of-the-Season - FALL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Winter Oats seeded in fresh soil (above left) and over-seeded into clover thatch (above right) on 11/3/2008
(Photos taken 11/16/2008 ) - for Spring hay harvest in May 2009 - Lynch Creek Farm

 

Upcoming LYNCH CREEK Events

[Year-round] Agri-Cultural Tourism
We are now a Franklin County, NC Piedmont Trail featured site. Visit this new NC website for details about the Art Roads and Farm Trails you can experience while vacationing in North Carolina. Look under the "Hushpuppies, Pimento Cheese & Sweet Tea" menu in "Louisburg" for Lynch Creek Farm and Antiques at
HomegrownHandmade.com. Plan a NC road trip next year!
 
[May 16-17, 2009]  6th Annual Franklin County Farm Foods and Crafts Weekend Festival
Designed to "promote a sustainable way of life in Franklin County, support buying local products, support the local art community, promote green space and environmental stewardship".  This is unquestionably a family event - with many fascinating things for children to experience.  Select and visit any number of Franklin County Farms from 11:00am until 5:00pm. Bring a picnic lunch. For all the details, see the Tour Guide posted at www.FranklinCountyFarmFresh.com. There are several new special events that have been added to this weekend: 1) Local Foods Picnic, 6:00pm Saturday evening May 16 at Person Place, North Main Street, Louisburg, NC - local foods prepared by area chefs plus live country/bluegrass music - picnic-style - bring a blanket or folding chair; 2) Weekend Photography Contest with child, teenager and adult age groups on a Farm Life theme; 3) A Running 5K Race/Walk - Fun Run for Kids, Short Race for your "significant other", and serious 5K for Competitors; 5) A Beginners Fishing Clinic and Rodeo - 1/2 day Pond Fishing at its best for the Family - for kids 5-12 - limited to 250 - pre-registration required - FREE fishing gear for all from sponsor Shakespeare; and other Events are still being added - more to follow. Some things you can see and experience at Lynch Creek Farm include. . . .

Barred Rock Hens

The Potato Patch

Gardens-to-Go

Raised-bed Garden

Honey Bee Hives

Year-round Vegetables

Premium Grass-fed Beef

Country Bluegrass

Future Smokehouse - Rustic Bread Oven

Antique Showroom

Heated Seedling Greenhouse

Rainbarrel Goldfish

Real Lynch Creek

Solar Hoop House

  • Live Country/Bluegrass Music (compliments of Ridgeway Opry House)

  • Hay Rides for the Kids

  • See our baby calves - about one month old

  • Meet "Molly" - our female (jenny) cattle guard donkey

  • Tour our Log Cabin and see Displays of Franklin County Indian relics and Demonstrations of Flintknapping

  • Wildcraft some Honeysuckle

  • A free potted plant for each paid attendee

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