In October 2006, we bought a few hundred chickens and accompanying infrastructure and we're now in the egg business, trading as Kenilworth Organic Produce.  To clarify, The Village Organic Farm is the umbrella business and we are still running our dairy and beef herds, poultry, bees and the General Store under TVOF.  We intend to market the eggs under TVOF at some future point but it was better for our inherited customers to keep brand continuity during the ownership transition.

As often happens in business, we had to act on this opportunity quickly and there was little time to prepare.  We had to hit the deck running, ie day one = 600 eggs to be washed, packed and labelled.  Two months on, operations are still getting organised but we're very excited about how this venture will integrate with the other farm activities.  The chooks seem happy and the feedback is that the customers are very happy with the quality of our eggs.  Demand has increased to the point where we could increase production by 50% and still not meet it.  On the down side, a few weeks after we took over, the price of organic grain rose by 33%!  May this drought break soon...