Hayes Valley Farms

Hayes Valley Farms We were a full working farm and micro dairy. We have sold our farm and retired due to medical issues. We will be traveling while making our way to SE Alaska. Hi.

We provide educational info on all things AG. Follow our Journey. We are a family owned and operated Farm and Raw Dairy. We raise, milk, and sell registered A2A2 Jersey Cows. We also raise and sell registered Nubians, Nigerian Dwarfs, Katahdin Hair Sheep, Yorkshire Pigs, Geese, Ducks, Chickens, Quails, and all types of rabbits. We offer private family fun farm tours. We love hosting petting zoo pa

rties and small farm weddings. We love teaching people about our way of life and have different classes through out the year from canning, soap making to small animal processing. We also operate a 501C3 Non Profit Equine Rescue called Hayes Horse Haven.

Good Morning from the Grand Canyon. ✨️Seeing all the red clay dirt (please correct me if I'm calling the ground wrong)😆 ...
10/10/2025

Good Morning from the Grand Canyon. ✨️

Seeing all the red clay dirt (please correct me if I'm calling the ground wrong)😆 around got me thinking about the beautiful black soil we had in VA.

Seriously. Not sure what the soil type out here is called. But. The point is, we've always tried to make the soil as healthy as possible.

Did you know there are different ways to amend your soils. There really isn't a one size fits all. ❤️

You definitely want to have your soils tested to know exactly what is lacking, but some things can be seen by the naked eye.
Weeds thrive in acidic soil. So if your pastures have loads of weeds chances are the acidity is extremely high.

With that, I'm curious if you also try to amend your soils, if so, how, what do you do (or don't do), that has helped it?

10/10/2025

Enjoy your day. ❤️ If we could all be as happy as these littles. 😆

So we broke both axle stabilizers on the enclosed trailer. 😳I Looked back and I swore the trailer was on fire. Pulled ov...
10/09/2025

So we broke both axle stabilizers on the enclosed trailer. 😳

I Looked back and I swore the trailer was on fire. Pulled over and all you could smell is rubber AND FIRE.

MR. Hayes pulled over and put the fire out on the tires. The stabilizers hold thr trailer up, and the trailer was rubbing on the tires.

Luckily there was a repair place within minutes of where we pulled over on the Interstate.

We had a Police es**rt all the way till we git off the highway.

We will be hiring a transport company to take the trailer (on a flat bed) the rest of the way.

That was super scary to say the least.

We are all good and set up at the repair yard for a few hours while they fix the enclosed trailer.

Nobody was hurt and nothing broken thar cannot be fixed. 🙌🙏

The idea that non-profits don't make money is not true, and many people think that all non profits operate identically, ...
10/09/2025

The idea that non-profits don't make money is not true, and many people think that all non profits operate identically, and the short answer is they do make money and operate differently.

Bottom line is: non profits simply re-invest their profits (after paying 'acceptable salaries' per the IRS) to their Board Members, Presidents, etc. (dependent on their organizational structures).

IMO: all small family Farms should operate as some sort of non profit. Using profits to make the mortgage payment on the land where you farm/operate in order to continue your 'food-freedom mission' would be considered reinvesting into the organization. 😉

-exempt

If you have seen the movie 'Cars', the Wigwam Motel was the inspiration for the Happy Cone Motel. 😅Some pictures from to...
10/09/2025

If you have seen the movie 'Cars', the Wigwam Motel was the inspiration for the Happy Cone Motel. 😅

Some pictures from today. Weren't many cows around.. Guess the Aliens took them. 😳

The time difference is messing with our internal clocks.

Good Morning from Arizona. Next up The Grand Canyon. ❤️
10/08/2025

Good Morning from Arizona.
Next up The Grand Canyon. ❤️

Goodbye New Mexico. 🫶 Weather has been beautiful, except for today, on travel day. Gloomy, windy, overcast, and cold. 🥶A...
10/07/2025

Goodbye New Mexico. 🫶 Weather has been beautiful, except for today, on travel day. Gloomy, windy, overcast, and cold. 🥶

Arizona here we come.. 🙂

If only we had a dollar for every time we heard that.. 🤣🫣
10/07/2025

If only we had a dollar for every time we heard that.. 🤣🫣

Chicken Farmers.. 😆❤️
10/06/2025

Chicken Farmers.. 😆❤️

Yes. You can run as many 'businesses' as you'd like on your land/farm. ❤️We ran 5 businesses from our farm. 1. The Farm ...
10/06/2025

Yes. You can run as many 'businesses' as you'd like on your land/farm. ❤️

We ran 5 businesses from our farm.
1. The Farm
2. The PMA for our private food club.
3. A 501c3 Non Profit. Hayes Horse Haven.
4. Mr. Hayes' All Things Welded
5. Art Business @ ArtByVictoria

All with the same address. 😊

10/05/2025

Government employees will get back-pay when they return from the shutdown, but farmers won't! 👨🏻‍🌾😡

Some of our farmers' can't get the seed money to plant because the USDA office is not servicing the ag loans for winter wheat crops. We have to stop being dependent on these bureaucrats.

Emergency meeting this Tuesday at 3 in the Field house at Farmers' Storehouse to coordinate an action plan to back these farmers. All our welcome.

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1341 Matson Drive
Marion, VA
24354

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+12762993747

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