Andy Vlcek didn’t grow up planning on farming.
His father died in 2010. A few years after, around 2012, Vlcek moved home to help his mother maintain Nature’s Grove Farm, their small family operation in Unity. He and his mom, Nancy, spent the next few years selling eggs and micro-greens before the idea of raising chickens began to form.
In 2018, they turned the idea into action and began to sell pasture-raised chicken through a Community Supported Agriculture, or CSA, program. Now, they raise a few hundred chickens at a time.
They offer what they call “beyond organic,” birds that receive a non-GMO grain and spend their time outside scratching the ground eating bugs and grass.
“The grass really helps to add flavor to the meat that you won’t experience with a supermarket chicken,” Vlcek said. “When you eat our birds, you taste how nature intended for them to be.”
