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Raising chicken in Your Yard

A small kitchen, an old starter and a belief that good bread brings people together. Here's how it all began.

Chicken coop filled with nesting boxes and roosting bars
Our beginning

Building Your First Backyard Chicken Coop

It started with weekend loaves for friends and neighbours. Word spread faster than we could bake, and before long we'd swapped the kitchen table for a little shopfront on the corner.

Today we're a bakery and coffee house rolled into one — but the heart of it hasn't budged. Same starter, same slow mornings, same welcome.

What we care about

Winter Care for Your Flock

Egg Production Tips

Locally milled flour, real butter and seasonal fruit. Nothing we can't pronounce.

Brooder Setup Guide

Long, slow ferments give our bread its flavour. You can't hurry a good loaf.

Rooster Management

A café should feel like someone's kitchen. Come as you are and stay as long as you like.

In the kitchen

Complete Poultry Care Handbook

Our day starts at four in the morning, when the ovens go on and the first doughs get shaped. By the time the doors open, the counter's full and the whole street smells like breakfast.

It's early, floury, tiring work — and we wouldn't trade it for anything. There's real joy in handing someone a warm bun and watching their morning get a little better.

  • Raise healthy chicken and eggs in your backyard, season after season
  • Natural products for poultry care, sourced with purpose
  • Recycled coop materials given new life, never wasted
Hands assembling a wooden brooder frame
DawnFlock ready
SeasonsBrooder setup
9Backyard tradition
1Proven heritage breeds
The keepers

The people behind healthy flocks

A small community of chicken keepers who genuinely love their birds — and who understand what it takes to keep them thriving.

Founder with backyard flock portrait

Feed Storage

Chicken keeper & guide author

Up with the rooster, caretaker of the flock, happiest with fresh eggs in hand.

Head poultry expert portrait

Chicken Coop Basics

Coop designer & builder

Designs eco-friendly products for secure hen houses and shares his build wisdom generously.

Customer with healthy egg-laying hens portrait

Natural Products for Chickens

Poultry nutrition expert

The knowledgeable voice answering questions about feed, health and breed selection.

Start your backyard flock today

Build a coop, gather your birds, collect your first eggs. We'll guide you every step.