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Ginger Bee Farm

lRenewing the land through wise and respectful use

Small-scale, diversified, family-run, and dedicated to biodiversity

Coastal New England is a tough area to farm. We have a lot of dirt, but very little good soil, and the most reliable yearly crop is rocks. Our wild swings in precipitation, our temperature fluctuations, and our unreliable seasons mean that feeding a family from this land can be a big challenge.

 

Our gentle, respectful solution is to utilize a combination of low-impact animal foraging and careful planting. The animals put nutrients into the ground and build soil texture, and we then soak up those nutrients and keep them safely in plant matter so there is minimal to zero runoff. The animals return the following year and turn those nutrients into meat, milk, and eggs, and the cycle continues.

 

At every stage we’re leaving the land better than we found it, increasing organic matter, encouraging biodiversity, and protecting groundwater – doing things the hard way on purpose, practicing patience, and proving that this crazy project really can feed a family and nurture a community.

The Ginger Bee Farm Family

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Ginger Bee Farm homestead and barn in Plaistow, New Hampshire
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Location.

Ginger Bee Farm is a rotational, regenerative micro-farm located in beautiful seacoast New England, where Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine meet. We raise heritage Kune Kune pigs; ADGA Saanen, Lamancha, and Nubian dairy goats; and NPIP rainbow hatching eggs on our small-acreage farm in seacoast New Hampshire. We are a woman-owned, woman-run, disability-owned business.

Our partners in improving our land

Our Animals

We have taken the Medieval open-field system — narrow strips, frequent rotation, fertility built from the land itself — and applied it to 2.5 acres that now produce dairy goats, heritage pigs, pastured poultry, seasonal vegetables, fruit, and a bakery that runs entirely on a dedicated gluten-free kitchen. Our animal-based composting system handles most of what would otherwise be a waste problem, which is a polite way of saying we have become very good at turning spare calories into animal manure and then into garden gold. 

 

We refuse to waste even a single square foot, so our micro-farm uses a four-stage rotation across fifty-foot strips, with each strip advancing one phase per month — fallow becomes forage, forage becomes milk, milk becomes pork, and manure becomes forage again. We’re a Zone 5b-6a microfarm, which means we have only a little over 100 warm-season growth days, and we’ve learned to make every one of those days count.

Child feeding animals at Ginger Bee Farm in Plaistow, New Hampshire

KuneKune pigs

Kune Kunes have a gentle rooting behavior that is completely unique in the pig world. They thoroughly turn the soil and remove even the most stubborn rhizomes and roots, but they do not go deeper than a few inches in the soil, leaving the deep soil structure and chemistry intact.

Baby dairy goat kid exploring blooming flowers at Ginger Bee Farm

Silvopasture-raised hens

We’ve spent years creating flocks that are long-lived, steady layers of beautiful eggs in every shade of the rainbow. They are our weed-removers and bug-killers. Our hens are never culled; from their hatching to old age, they earn their place here and keep it.

Farm scene at Ginger Bee Farm in Plaistow, New Hampshire

Dairy goats

These charming, intelligent animals are not just affectionate and rewarding — they’re a valuable helper on the farm. They turn forage into milk, clear brush, and add joy to every barn chore. We focus on ADGA-registered Saanen, LaMancha, and Nubian genetics.

Our products

Child with farm animals at Ginger Bee Farm in Plaistow, New Hampshire

Small, slow farming makes small, slow, incredibly delicious food.

Breeding stock

We raise registered Kune Kune pigs, NPIP-certified hatching eggs from a flock enrolled in a current mycoplasma testing program with the NH Department of Agriculture, and ADGA-registered dairy goats for families who want sound genetics and healthy stock. Whether you are starting a greens-based pork program, building a self-sufficient flock, or adding a small dairy herd, our breeding animals are selected for temperament, vigor, and productivity on a small farm.

We offer a few breeding animals every year, selected and bred to meet the needs of families on small farms and those who want to produce healthier food for their families. We expect our pigs to grow, marble, and finish on a low-grain diet. Kunekune breeding stock is registered AKKPS and fully DNA tested. Our purebred ADGA-registered dairy goats are healthy, robust, and high producers of delicious milk. 

Ethical Meat

Our Kune Kune pork is raised on green feed and minimal grain, and finished on measured rations without rush or confinement. The result is richly marbled, old-fashioned pork with velvety fat that shines in charcuterie, confit, and everyday cooking.

Artisan Foods

From hand-rendered Kune Kune leaf lard and farm-fresh hatching eggs to small-batch aged goat cheese, our kitchen and creamery work starts in the barn. Everything is made in small quantities, season by season, with the same goats and pigs that rotationally forage our two and a half acres.

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