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Discover an exciting array of flowers, herbs and other plants that will add natural beauty and color to your home and garden. You’ll find everything you need to enhance your outdoor living space, from containers and trellises to arbors and benches.
Although we offer plants for sale, we aren’t a nursery. Our main focus is on home and garden décor.
You can also select one of our "gardens to go!" These lovely groupings of plants available in a variety of interesting containers are an easy way to add color to your porch, deck or yard.
At Tollen Farm, we’re dedicated to being eco-friendly. Our apple and filbert orchards are never sprayed because we want to ensure our animals graze in chemical-free pastures. This is better for the market sheep we raise and for the people who come to visit us!
Tollen Farm has been raising Hampshire Sheep since 1979. We sell breeding stock and market lambs. We also raise Mediterranean Miniature Donkeys to sell as family pets and guard animals for other livestock. We have been raising Miniature Donkeys since 1998. These adorable animals are especially fond of people – and carrots! As herd animals, the donkeys prefer to have friends, so we usually sell them in pairs.
Tollen Farm is a member of ADMS, the American Donkey and Mule Society. All of our donkeys are registered animals with ADMS. The pedigrees on some of our donkeys go back to animals that came from Sardinia which is the homeland of the Mediterranean Miniature Donkey. At the present time we have 10 donkeys on the farm and one foal due in September of 2008. Female donkeys are called Jennys and males are called Jacks.
Donkeys come in a variety of coat shades; the most common one is Gray-Dun. We have 4 gray Dun Jennys, two dark brown Jennys, and one slate gray Jenny. Our herd stud Jack is a pinto by the name of “Cowboy." His son, “Cisco Kid” is a dark brown Jack and our final little guy, ”High Jinks” is dark brown with red highlights around his nose, ears and eyes.
The two yearling Jennys will be one in May. They have been raised to be sold together, as they are best buddies. The farm is hosting a Birthday Party for the “girls” (Emma and Smoochie), on May 16th and 17th from 10 AM to 4 PM. Come on out and have some carrot cake with the girls!
Why do we raise them? Mini donkeys have very nice laid back friendly personalities. They LOVE people! They consider you part of their herd. They come to you instead of running the other way. Donkeys are ”easy keepers”, which means that caring for them is not difficult or expensive, unlike some other equine species can turn out to be. They are good with kids.
Minis can carry up to 75 pounds and pull 500 pounds when full grown. They are also used as guard animals with other livestock, such as sheep.
The American Hampshire Sheep Association is where all pure-bred ”Hamps” are registered. When we began raising them in 1979, we joined that organization. Our Rams are always registered stock but we have not kept up with the registration of our ewes.
This year we introduced two pure breed Lincolns into the flock to produce some lively little cross bred lambs for 4-H projects. We are happy with the results.
Come meet the sheep and the donkeys!
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