Fresh, Local, Sustainable Food for NE Iowa Village Creek Farm - Bob Raymond
1917 Doehler Drive, Lansing
Nestled in the Village Creek valley just southwest of Lansing, Iowa, Village Creek Farm is a small operation specializing in salad greens grown in hoop houses and in pasture-raised chickens. The farm is owned and operated by Bob Raymond and has been a producer for GROWN Locally for three years.
The focus of Village Creek Farm is connecting our customers with the small farmer who produces their food, and at the same time promoting local enterprise and strengthening the local communities in which we live and work.
We follow the USDA organic guidelines and use no antibiotics or hormones, and no chemical fertilizers, herbicides, or pesticides. We take pride in producing fresh, local, sustainably grown food. By specializing in salad greens grown in hoop houses, we are able to extend our growing season, offering fresh greens as early as April and as late as December, without any supplemental heat. The chicks are purchased from a local hatchery, protected for the first three weeks in a brooder house with outdoor access, and then moved to large mobile pens on pasture until eight weeks of age. The chickens thrive on the fresh pasture and sunshine, and are provided a healthy supplement of corn, soybeans, alfalfa, and kelp.
Village Creek Farm will soon open a farm market on site, providing a retail outlet for all the products offered by GROWN Locally. In addition, the farm will be a drop site for nearby GROWN Locally CSA customers.
We welcome visitors—come on out and see our operation first hand. We’re located just
3.5 miles southwest of Lansing, just off X42, on Doehler Dr.
