Concord Farms: A Community Tradition
The Good and Tasty Life at Backyard Birds
By giving their animals space to graze in pasture and feeding them organic grains, Pete Lowy and Jen Hashley produce some of the freshest eggs and meat in town.
If Pete Lowy is tired at this point, he sure isn't showing it. Lowy never stops bouncing around as we meet the 40 pigs and around 525 egg-laying hens he keeps with his wife Jen on the aptly named Pete and Jen's Backyard Birds on Wheeler Road. Whether Pete is crouching low to give one of his piglets a healthy slap on the back, or making sure every last water tank and giant feed container on the hen pasture is full, the hop in his step and wide smile on his face are constant. Lowy has reason to be a bit exhausted --after all, he's spending his precious lunch break from his other job as assistant farm manager at Verrill Farm next door talking to a reporter. But as the midday sun beats down on the hen coops, and the pigs a mile down the road …
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