What We Produce
“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”
our land
Capricious Ventures makes its home on two parcels totaling roughly five acres in Boulder County, Colorado, which we affectionately refer to as the Farmstead and the New House. Both parcels were originally part of large agricultural holdings homesteaded by Colorado farming families. The Farmstead sits in a fortunate microclimate that seems to miss the recently severe hailstorms Colorado has started to experience over the past few years and makes for unparalleled heirloom tomatoes and flowers. Under updates and episodic expansions, the New House still has the bones of the original two-room homestead cabin, circa 1900, beneath its walls.
We are lucky enough to share our land with a variety of wildlife, including beautiful American Kestrels, Red-Tailed and Cooper’s Hawks, Great-Horned Owls, Blue Herons, North American red foxes, the occasional Bald Eagle, as well as many, many rabbits (which makes us grateful for the coyotes that share the neighborhood as well). We are focused on sustainable practices such as composting, careful rotational grazing on our two parcels, hydroponic planting practices to decrease water loss, and pesticide and herbicide-free growing because we are intimately aware that we share our ecosystem. We love where we live and want to leave it a little better than we found it.
“No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.”
our partners
One of the great joys of Capricious Ventures is how it has put us in the path of so many wonderful, innovative, skilled, passionate, and lovely people. We are honored to partner with a few of these special folks:
Blackbelly // Boulder, Colorado
Sugar Pine Catering // Longmont, Colorado
“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.”
our products
Farm-fresh eggs from happy birds represent what eggs should be. At the New House, due west from Isabelle Farm in Lafayette, we offer a limited number of chicken and quail eggs each week from our flock. Our chickens spend their days pecking at bugs, grass, grains, and kitchen scraps, as well as high-quality layer crumble and our quail rotate between several meshed open-air pens throughout the year - all of which makes for a better and more humane product.
In addition to selling quail, turkey (yup, you heard right!), and chicken eggs directly to consumers through the Colorado Cottage Food Act Program, we are also licensed as an approved source for restaurants and retail sales of quail eggs with the Colorado Department of Agriculture (CDA) and are honored to be part of CDA’s Colorado Proud Program, which helps consumers identify and purchase food and agricultural products produced in Colorado.
“I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it to be from an animal that has lived a pleasant, uncrowded life outdoors, on bountiful pasture, with good water nearby and trees for shade.”
Farm-fresh goods.
