Cloonshee Farms retires

[pitu]

I just heard that the Cloonshee lady has sold the farm, and I am BUMMED. Cloonshee Farms produced the best quality chicken for sale in Brooklyn. It was local (upstate), free-range, organically fed, affordable and DELICIOUS. This is a huge loss to Brooklyn restaurants and home cooks.

Here's a Google link for some of the many restaurants that featured their chicken, turkey, and eggs.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Cloons...

It's sold retail at the Park Slope Food Coop and Biercraft. Get your last Cloonshee birds now...

Thanks for years of stellar chicken, fresh farm eggs, and Thanksgiving turkeys, Cloonshee lady!

[flo]

CLONSHEE has been buying chickens from other purveyors for about a year because of internal problems. So they were really only distributors, their own operation has been having big problems for quite a while.

[ndl]

really? how did you know that?

[flo]

from herself. After a very hard and trying year, she decided to replenish her own output of chickens with some from other farms. That does not take away from the fact that their own chicken was always top notch, and that they are very hard working people.

[Bob Martinez]

Do you have any information as to whether anyone will be taking over the business?

[pitu]

Wow - if that's true about the other farms/chickens, you sure couldn't tell the difference. And yes, I can totally tell the difference between Murrays and Cloonshee.

I understand that the particular Cloonshee farm has been sold for residential use, but I sure wish some of those other farms would get hooked up with Brooklyn. She could sell the Cloonshee name to them if she was actually putting other farmers' birds in her bags. It's a trusted commodity for NYS free-range organic birds.

[flo]

no info other than that she is considering moving to Ireland for a while, the property itself seems to be going to "nonfarmers".

[ndl]

she sold the farm to two women who will use it as a country house/motorcycle hang out. no chickens. she bought an RV and is going to drive all the way to costa rica!

[bobjbkln]

Apparantly not. iCi just sent out a note that they are looking for a new supplier for thier chickens.

[Bob Martinez]

Why wouldn't the new owners keep supplying restaurants with chickens?