Skyhill Egg Farm –– 15 acres

Falling Water (sister site) –– 40 acres

NOTE: After 20 years, the farmer has retired and sold these properties. Leaving this website live in hopes others will find useful information here.

These two egg farms with lush permaculture gardens are equipped, self-sufficient homesteads on land that was a house and a treeless lawn or field just over a decade ago.  

Both include: 

• Deep, chemical-free well water.

•  A south-facing passive solar home with many and large windows,

• Solar panels mounted on new, well-built, south-facing barns.

• Water storage facility and water management for productive soil.

• Efficient heating systems.

• A wood stove plus either radiant floor heat or electric heat pumps

• Permaculture gardens of diverse perennials (as fruit and nut trees or shrubs, asparagus, and strawberries) as well as medicinal herbs, flowers, and annual food crops.

• Policy of NO "cides" (herbicides, insecticides, fungicides), GMOs, and synthetic chemicals and fertilizers for past 19 years and probably much longer.

• Barns to house 10 or 200 laying hens and/or a few lambs, goats, cows, horses.

• A greenhouse for seedlings and spring/winter extension crops but also used to grow worms and plants for chicken consumption, to store crops in soil over the winter, to dry and prep crops, to provide private spaces for mother hens, chicks, and sick hens, and much more.

• Woodlands and low meadows with wildflowers and interspersed shade and fruit trees.

• A small orchard.

• Organic compost production.

• Winter food storage.

• Space for a cottage industry (as mushrooms, jams, dried fruit or even repairing bikes or building e-bikes!)

• Outbuildings, barn lofts and sheds for storage.

• Always broad vistas of the rolling, folding hills of the northern Catskills, even from most windows in the house.

• Nearby small villages and colleges, with drives of 25 to 50 minutes to Cooperstown, Oneonta, Albany.