About us

Have you ever felt disconnected from your life, food, and family? Like the place you are and how you are living is no longer where you are meant to be?

Not too long ago this was us. We felt far away from our roots. We were buying most of our food from grocery stores and local box stores and felt uncertain about the quality of our food. Then fate took over.

The original homestead of my family became available. We took a leap of faith and moved to South-East Ohio to rebuild this family farm after it had been idle for decades. We started Quarter Penny Farms because we want to provide healthy delicious food (meat and eggs) for our family, friends, and neighbors from well-treated animals using environmentally-friendly systems.

Our Farm Today

Our goal is to raise sheep and laying hens in the best and least stressed way we can and provide you confidence and knowledge of where, how, and who is producing your food!

We don’t often give tours for ‘fun’ as we are a working farm with sheep that are naturally shy, but we are very happy to show our customers and friends our animals and answer any questions you have about our practices, text 740-440-1916 or email: Jill.Anderson@quarterpennyfarmsoh.com to set up a time to visit.

We are working to combine the best practices of the past with new practices of the future. Our main focus is the sheep flock consisting mainly of hair sheep and hair sheep crossbreeds. We also have a small flock of about 30 brown egg laying hens. We grow veggies in the summer to feed ourselves and sometimes will offer farm friends some of the abundance when we get a bumper crop of something.

Jill also likes to make woven art, scarves, shawls, and runners, etc. from a mixture of materials (some our wool- but also a lot of other materials) that are available at our store, where you can see her looms too.

Who works on the Farm?

We are a husband-wife team on our farm. We both work on daily feeding, watering, and pasture maintenance for our animals. Jill is more in charge of chickens, animal health, breeding, and business management. Mark is more in charge of equipment running and up-keep. The only other people that interact with our animals before they get to you is the local meat processor and our eggs are only handled by me/Jill.

How’d we come up with our name?

One day we were driving on a nearby highway 555 and I noticed several signs for “the triple Nickle highway”.  Our farm is on county road 26 so I joked to Mark that we lived on Quarter Penny county road and then it hit me that that should be our farm name! The name should help you remember how to find us!