Meat and Eggs—Without Steroids

Snoep Winkel Farm is a small family farm located in Branchville, New Jersey owned by Gary and Basia Van Boerum.

“It stated out with the kids wanting to get into 4H, then they got a couple more animals and then they decided they could sell this stuff,” Reid said.

As one of the market's regular vendors, Snoep Winkel Farm specializes in meats and eggs that are free of steroids, hormones and antibiotics. According to Timothy Reid, an employee of the farm, raising the animals this way makes the products they sell “delicious.”

Milk-fed lamb is one of the farm’s specialties. “We leave them with the mother for an extra six months to drink the milk. Most people when they have lamb will wean them off the mother [earlier],” Reid said.

Snoep Winkel Farm also sells eggs and a variety of meat choices, including beef, chicken and pork, all priced per pound. Snoep Winkel Farm sells all of these products weekly at the Famers’ Market.

Snoep Winkel Farm continues to come back to the Farmers’ Market because “Chatham is a great town. We just try to make customers happy and put out a good healthy product; grass fed is always healthier,” Reid said.