Are you ready to love your food and feed your life?
We focus on growing heritage breeds and heirloom food without using hormones, pesticides, or chemicals, in harmony with the earth’s natural cycles. Our farm is designed based on the principles of permaculture and biodynamic farming. We are committed to being lifelong learners in the pursuit of living abundantly. We hope you will join us on our journey as we grow and learn. We want you to love your food and have confidence in us as you nourish your life. Join Beachdog Farm on the path to ultimate well-being.
Read about us in this article: Inside the Demand for Sustainable Meat and Seafood in Delaware.
How we arrived here:
In 2015, we bought six chicks and built a pen out of PVC and chicken wire on 1/4 acre. We fell in love with farm life and its connection to our food. Since then, we have bought a farm and added Kunekune pigs, chickens, ducks, turkeys, rabbits, heirloom vegetables, fruits, herbs, and flowers.
Meet Dr. Lisa Clow:
I retired from a 30-year career teaching public middle school and started farming full-time in July 2021. While my plan after completing a Ph.D. in Public Health was to work in higher education, the pandemic knocked me off my hamster wheel. (Listen to my podcast episode about that.) We decided to invest in Beachdog Farm, and now I live my dream!
Life on the farm!
Farmer Lisa with Charlotte
Beachdog Farm LLC
Sussex County, DE
Beachdog Farm Rabbit
Our Kindle to Harvest program provides delicious, locally raised rabbit for your dinner table
and is an integral part of our farm’s sustainability plan. We select the best breeds for our program and maintain high-quality standards.
They are processed on the farm and then frozen in BPA-free shrink-wrapped bags.
The Champagne d’Argent rabbit is one of the oldest recognized rabbit breeds. Champagne d’Argent means ‘Silver [rabbit] of Champagne’ and was found in France in the mid-1600s. Prized for its unique “silvery” pelt and meat-producing qualities, the Champagne is a frequent winner on the show table.
The Creme d’Argent rabbit arrived on the market in France during the 1800s. The Creme d’Argent rabbits are a bit larger than the Champagnes, with superior quality in taste and texture. Status: Recovering
(Livestock Conservancy, 2025)
Try one of our new favorite recipes!
Korean Style Rabbit
Cook rabbit in a slow cooker with 2 cups of water for several hours until the meat falls off the bone.
You could also cook the rabbit in a covered Dutch oven at 300 degrees. To keep the meat moist, cook the rabbit without salt.
Combine the following ingredients for the sauce
2 tsp sea salt
1 onion chopped
2 cloves garlic, smashed
1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger
2 tablespoons Korean Chilli Paste
3 tablespoons brown sugar
¼ cup soy sauce or liquid aminos
Liquid from the crock pot or 2 cups of rabbit stock
Simmer for 10 min while you remove meat from bones (reserve bones for making bone broth)
Add rabbit meat to the sauce and simmer for 20 minutes.
Serve with rice
Our customers are so creative when prepping and cooking rabbit!
Are you interested in breeding your rabbits for show or meat? We breed pedigree, show-quality Champagne d’Argent and Creme d’Argent rabbits. Email us for details: beachdogfarm@beachdogfarm.com
Beachdog Farm Eggs
Organic non-GMO-fed Chicken and Duck Eggs
Scrambled duck eggs
What’s special about Beachdog Farm eggs? Our chickens and ducks are mobile. They get fresh ground to scratch and forage regularly, as well as organic scratch grains as an everyday treat.
Our chickens eat Kalmbach USDA Certified Organic, Non-GMO feed that contains LifeGuard®, a proprietary blend of prebiotics, probiotics, essential oils, and enzymes that support digestive, immune, and health functions. Their feed also contains YolkProud™, a blend of natural ingredients that promote vibrant egg yolks.
Our ducks eat Nature’s Best Organic Duck crumbles that provide a complete, nutritional diet for your ducks. Organic duck crumbles aim to strengthen ducks without using pesticides or genetically modified ingredients. They give young and growing ducks a healthy foundation through proteins and natural ingredients.
Our turkeys eat Kalmach Wild Flush Gamebird non-GMO feed containing LifeGuard®. Their feed is also balanced to support our conservancy breeding program.
Our Eggs are available at Hattie’s Garden in Lewes, DE!
What’s different about duck eggs?
Although both types of eggs are nutritious, duck eggs tend to contain even higher amounts of some nutrients than chicken eggs, including folate, iron, and vitamin B12.
Duck eggs contain as much as 168% or more of the DV for vitamin B12. Your body needs vitamin B12 for certain tasks, such as building DNA and new red blood cells
Source: Healthline
Eggs: Are they good or bad for my cholesterol?
Answer From Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, M.D, Mayo Clinic
Chicken eggs are an affordable source of protein and other nutrients. They're also naturally high in cholesterol. But the cholesterol in eggs doesn't seem to raise cholesterol levels the way some other foods, such as those high in trans fats and saturated fats, do. read more here
Flourless Tortilla Recipe
Ingredients:
1 beachdog farm turkey or duck egg
2 tablespoons of almond flour
dash of seasoning
Combine all in a bowl and pour into a hot skillet. cook for about 1 min or less and flip tortilla. Cook for about 1 more min or less.
cracking a turkey egg for flourless tortilla
making flourless tortillas
Chicks and Ducklings
Limited Availability
Are you interested in starting a flock but don’t have an incubator? No problem! We are hatching eggs and can help you to grow your heritage breed flock. Email us beachdogfarm@beachdogfarm.com
Newly Hatched Saxony and Welsh Harlequin Ducks
Sussex chicks just hatched
The White Holland Turkey
Get ready for the deliciousness of Thanksgiving! Our orders for the exquisite White Holland Turkey will begin in August. Don’t miss the chance to secure this flavorful centerpiece for your holiday feast!
White Holland Turkey Project on Beachdog Farm
The White Holland was the most critical white-feathered variety throughout American history. Despite this illustrious past, the White Holland is among today’s rarest and most difficult-to-authenticate varieties. The White Holland was the only commercial white variety in the first half of the 1900s. The White Holland is a distinctive and historical population close to extinction (Threatened) (Livestock Conservancy, 2020)
Chicken and Duck Hatching Eggs
Want to hatch your heritage breed flock?
Hatching eggs are available for Sussex chickens, Saxony ducks, Welsh Harlequin ducks, and White Holland turkeys.
Get your incubator ready!
Day old Sussex chicks in brooder
Sussex chicks thriving in the brooder
Pasture-Raised Pork
Available in 2025
The Kunekune is a small heritage breed from New Zealand. They are pasture-grazing pigs that are slow-growing but worth the wait. Their pork is succulent, red marbled meat locked in a layer of fat around it, keeping it juicy and full of flavor.
Our Mamma Pigs Madeline and Charlotte
Our Papa Pig Wellington
Pasture-Raised Duck
Saxony Ducks
Photo from Beachdog Farm
“In eastern Germany, Albert Franz of Chemitz began developing a new multi-purpose duck in 1930. He used Rouen, German Pekin, and Blue Pomeranian ducks in his breeding program and introduced this new creation at the Saxony Show of 1934.” (Holderread) Chemtiz’s goal was a duck for exhibition that would lay a lot of eggs and produce delicious meat. It was named after the show in which it was first shown.
Most Saxony ducks didn’t survive World War II, so Franz renewed his breeding program after the war. In 1957, Germany recognized them as a distinct breed. Saxony ducks made their way to the United States when the Holderread Waterfowl Farm in Oregon imported them in 1984. They were admitted into the American Poultry Association’s Standard of Perfection in the Fall of 2000. Status: Threatened (Livestock Conservancy, 2020)”
Welsh Harlequin Ducks
“The Welsh Harlequin breed originated in 1949 with two mutant, light-colored ducklings hatched from pure Khaki Campbells by Leslie Bonnet, a British Royal Air Force officer, writer, banker, magazine editor – and duck breeder. Bonnet and his wife developed a globally-recognized duck breeding program. Bonnet published Practical Duck-Keeping in 1960. This guide was considered the “go-to” resource for duck husbandry for many decades.
In 1968, John Fugate imported hatching Harlequin eggs to Tennessee, but by 1980, descendants of the original imports were confined to two small flocks. To broaden the gene pool, breeders imported additional Harlequins in 1982, and in 1984 they began to offer birds for sale in the US. The Silver variety of the Welsh Harlequin was accepted by the American Poultry Association Standard of Perfection in 2001. Status: Watch (Livestock Conservency, 2020)”
Photo from Beachdog Farm
Pasture-Raised Chicken
The Sussex Chicken originated in the county of Sussex, England, where it was prized as a table fowl more than 100 years ago.
Sussex is one of the oldest breeds of chickens and has superior flavor.
Our chickens are pasture-raised, organic, and non-GMO fed. The poultry is processed on-farm and frozen in BPA-free shrink-wrapped bags.
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Beachdog Farm hosts products from Three Sisters Fiberworks. Lisa, Tara, and Nancy are working together to create products for healthy living. Check out our story here
Looking for more products for healthy living? Check out our mason jar candles created here on Beachdog Farm.
Thank you for visiting our website! We hope to continue our Journey of growing our food in abundance. If you have questions, please email me at beachdogfarm@beachdogfarm.com
