Gearing up for Valentine's Day



hand made earrings, chalkboards, cowsmilk soaps, goats 

milk soaps, body butter, salt scrubs and more!

Shop local!



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WE ARE OPEN BY APPOINTMENT ONLY (WE ARE NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)

WE ARE NOT A RESCUE


Please call us before you head out since we work full time, at our Silicon Valley tech jobs.  We are weekend warriors and are busy maintaining, planting, weeding, harvesting, crafting, beekeeping and teaching classes.  


We work full time - we pour our earnings back into the ranch,  so we are not open everyday.  We are open some weekends to the public, or when you see the gate open, and the signs and flags out! 


We don't have a lot of free time, and it's just us, managing over 200 animals, that include horses, goats, chickens, dogs & a very large apiary of over 80 hives on the ranch.  


We run other businesses, one of which is a host "farm stay" where we have guests that come stay with us to learn animal husbandry, horsemanship, beekeeping, crafts and more.


Please respect our privacy - DO NOT knock on the door and disturb our guests.  

Call or text 925-308-7126 for appt!  We need 24hr advance notice if you want to purchase eggs or honey or another product.  We can then make arrangements for pick up.


CHICKEN SALE!!!!  
DON'T BUY FROM A HATCHERY THAT SHIPS THEIR CHICKS TO A FEED STORE!
Make an appt and get your chickens here.  All different kinds, all different ages.  Born and raised for generations here! Don't wait 6 months for eggs, get a young chicken to lay your eggs now.  Call for appt.  Serious inquiries only.  We have small and large breeds, laying white, buff, and easter egg colors.  Sorry: No Rhonde Island Reds or darker brown egg layers.

Bees & Beekeeping click here - to be directed to the bee page
please call us to report a bee swarm! call# 925-308-7126
areas serviced in the east San Francisco Bay Area (California) are:  Brentwood, Discovery Bay, Oakley, Antioch, Byron, Knightsen

Check here for our online Etsy shop - Soap, crafts, farm items

Handmade products include lotion bars, Body mousse, natural soaps, beeswax candles, crocheted face/body 'scrubbies', drink caddies, farm animal chalk boards, and more!  We also use reclaimed/repurposed wood to create unique hand crafted pieces. We have jewelry made from real Mustang horse hair (since we do own 3 gentled, once wild, registered Mustangs)  - we are creating and adding things everyday, so check back!

OUR EGGS ARE REGISTERED ORGANIC -

OUR CHICKENS LAY FRESH DOZENS EVERY DAY

Our eggs are free range, pasture raised, and from all different breeds of chickens.  You see, we believe that the chickens born from generations on the ranch have been naturally selected from the strongest chickens.  


We do not believe that one breed of chicken is best - we like the "mutt" of chickens - those that survived year after year, strong foragers, disease tolerant, heat and cold resistant, and from hens that were allowed to have their baby chicks here.  


No genetically altered chickens, no antibiotics, no large order feed store/hatchery chicks that have been vaccinated because they were bred from a chicken mill (like puppy mills) so no false advertising. 

ALSO we are a registered valid business and with a registered valid egg producer and handler certified!  Beware of those selling backyard eggs (on Social Media) and without a business license!  Beware of those ranches that have slow egg production - their chickens may not have been so hardy or come from breeders in the Midwest that only care about how many they can sell to feed stores..  These chickens (chicks) are marketed so that they produce max # eggs in 2 years and then die.  Customers that buy from these places keep the inhumane treatment of these "chicken mills" in business.

TASTE THE DIFFERENCE - BUY YOUR EGGS HERE - LOCALLY!  WE ARE A SMALL BUSINESS, SMALL SALES 

 WE CARE ABOUT OUR CHICKS!

The Loose Rooster Ranch takes credit card payments through Square, Paypal (looseroosterranch@gmail.com) and I also take Venmo! Order 24-48 hours in advance, pay for your order and then pick up when convenient for you!


Please look for me on venmo, or scan.

Honey prices:

8 oz = $8 (sold out)

12 oz = $12 - sold out

16 oz = $16 (sold out)

16 oz = $16 Matt & Lacy Brentwood hive, in stock

12 oz bottle bear = Cinnamon Creamed Honey (limited quantity for the holidays) $35 in stock


Pollen: $2 an ounce = 2 oz bottle for $4 - SOLD OUT

Honeycomb: $1.65 an ounce  - SOLD OUT


Hens:

Pullets (small breed not yet laying) $18

Small breed (laying) = $20

Large breed pullet (not laying yet) $22

Large breed 6 month to one year old hens (started laying) $25

Roosters:

Small/Medium $5 - $8

Large: $10

Buff Orphington, Austrolorp and Americana mix Breeding: $25


Eggs


med/large -one dozen = $5


2019/2020 - BEE LIVES MATTER PROGRAM - honey harvesting the hives that are ready!
Did you ever want to work with bees? Get your own honey?  Learn more and help the environment?  Learn more about beekeeping and how to  SPONSOR YOUR OWN HIVE  (click) for more info!
If you cannot have a hive on your property - you can on ours! Join our program.
A full hive sponsorship is $225/$250  AND if you can't do a full hive - join a GROUP hive.  $25 for drone sponsor, $50 for worker bee sponsor, and $100 for a queen bee sponsor.  You can paint your box/side or I'll paint your name(s) on the hive box and you can participate in all the same activities live or from afar!  Click on the link above to learn more.

HAND MADE - FARM PRODUCTS from recycled items found at the ranch and from natures ingredients

We have quite a few handmade items for sale now!  Please consider shopping locally and supporting local farms and crafters.


Newly created farm animal chalk boards, drink caddy's from reclaimed barnwood, Animal soaps, and natural soaps - all hand made with items from the Ranch.  Check back for pics. FaceBook @looseroost.  


We will be open as the weather permits.  By appt - please call us at 925-308-7126 for orders of honey, Honeycomb, bee pollen, and eggs for pick up during the week.  Please give us 24 hour notice.   


Text or call us first - Convenient drive through - just pull in the driveway at the barn or main entrance - off street parking!

BEST LIP BALM EVER - available NOW  $2.50

Peppermint & Vanilla and Lavender & Vanilla


All natural Honey & Beeswax lip balms!


Made from our harvested beeswax from our Loose Rooster Ranch hives, and our delicious honey - we now have "lip service".  


Two kinds to choose from - Peppermint Vanilla & Lavender Vanilla


I personally am in love with these.  They include all organic ingredients: Beeswax, honey, Coconut Oil, Almond Oil and Shea Butter, Vitamin E, and a lovely combination of peppermint & vanilla essential oils.  These were selling at the Brentwood Ace for $3.79 and sold out!  So get them now at the ranch barn-stand for $2.50 

LOOSE ROOSTER RANCH DIY classes:
Soap Making = Hot pour (easy) & Cold Process ,
Bath Bomb making
Beeswax Candle making

Coming again in Fall of 2019.  Register on Eventbrite

SOAP MAKING CLASS (EASY) for adults and children (over 10 years old)- Did you every want to learn a fun way to create ready to use soaps?  

This is a fun class that is guaranteed to have you loving what you bring home! Using colors & fragrances and mixed into a goats milk soap base (all non toxic) - its so fun to play and learn how to use the molds.

You must sign up using the Eventbrite links, since we cannot take walk ins (as space may be limited)


COLD PROCESS SOAP MAKING CLASS 

THE REAL DEAL for adults only (18 and over)
Did you every want to learn the traditional way soap is really made?  Let Kate and Cindy show you how to make them!

This is the hands on old fashioned way to make soap.  We will use the saponification process, using all natural and some organic ingredients.  

You'll learn how sodium hydroxide reacts with natural oils like olive, coconut, shea butter and palm kernel oil.  Use of fresh cows milk, spices like tumeric and natural Kaolinite clays to soften, color and texture soap.  Use wonder molds that are interesting and produce great results

You'll go home with naturally made soap and the recipes to re-create them. This is a fun class that is guaranteed to have you loving what you bring home!

* You must sign up using Eventbrite links.  Space is limited and so there will be no payments take at the door.  The fee covers the ingredients and materials, time, venue and instruction.  You must cancel 24 hours in advance.

BEESWAX CANDLE MAKING CLASS


 

Learn how to make beeswax candles.  Beeswax is supplied from our hives at the Loose Rooster Ranch.  


Thank you ! We had a great time !


These classes will be back in the fall when we harvest our honey and when the weather gets a little cooler


You must sign up on Eventbrite - since space is limited.  Sorry we cannot have walk ins.


Some of our home made products include pure beeswax candles and various items made from old barn wood and other things found around the property.

BUSINESS LICENSE #029200 

Registered Organic

Registered Apiaries

Registered Egg Handlers


WE HAVE HONEY!!!

Raw, pure GOLD

Do you know who your beekeepers are? Where that honey came from?  I can show you the hive it came from!

Get yours now!!

WE HAVE BEE  POLLEN! Honey Comb

WE HAVE HONEY & BEESWAX LIP BALMS

All Natural made from organic ingredients - soaps & vegan soaps


WE HAVE EGGS!!!!

Farm fresh eggs, green/brown/white/buff color, medium/large sized.

$5 a dozen

small/medium $4 a dozen


3280 Bixler Rd, Brentwood, CA 94513

925-308-7126

cell: 925-308-7126 (text)


Member of the Brentwood Chamber of Commerce 2016-2018

Member of "Brentwood Grown"

Member of San Francisco Beekeepers Association

Member of Diablo Valley Beekeeper Association


California Registered Egg Handler#3916


We are registered ORGANIC in California


Members of the Mount Diablo Beekeepers Association,

Members of the San Francisco Beekeepers Association,

Members of Santa Clara Valley beekeepers guild

OUR GOLDEN YELLOW SUMMER SQUASH

LOGO (above) which we now have t-shirts, bags, stickers and hats!


PLANTING SEASON: 

Mid-Summer planting 

Flowers and pumpkins

late harvest squashes


All year we plant: Flowers for the bees and edible for us; lavender, rosemary, sage, savia, sunflowers, catnip and for us as well, oregano, basil, nasturtium.  


The cool thing is that you get to meet us, your beekeepers in person AND we can point to the hives and show you exactly where the honey came from.  It's not a "blend" of hives - each bottle is from one of the hives we have in the front of the ranch!


The Apiary (hives) that we own are strictly for honey production and local pollination - not commercial and they stay on the property year round.  We have names for each hive:  The Honey Hen, Angry Rooster, and Disco Bay Gold. We also have sponsored hives that have their sponsors names, which they bottle for themselves.


Today we have about 60 commercial hives in the back acres of the property.  These are owned by a pollinator beekeeper that provides pollination to the local farmers. We help store these hives in the winter, and then they go to pollinate almonds, cherry and fruit orchards around the area in the Spring.  


UPDATED Dec 4, 2019


Proud member of Harvest Time Brentwood

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