Hillside Farm & Pearce's Pastured Poultry

Hillside Farm is a diversified livestock farm in Albany, Vermont. They raise pastured pigs and poultry, processing chickens on the farm every week of the summer and selling fresh from the farm and at the Capital City Farmers Market. Owners Hannah Pearce and her father Bill are working toward growing the business to a sustainable and efficient scale, and have worked with Daniel Keeney & Silene DeCiucies at CAE to develop long-term business strategies to further these goals. Hillside Farm is a returning Vermont Farm Fund borrower, having used VFF funds in the past to support a solar array on the farm and to scale up their chicken tractors. Most recently they utilized VFF loan funds to replace an aging market delivery vehicle.

Photos by Kelly Bogel Stokes