Featured Farmer:
Alex Platz from
Die Walhall Heimstätte
Tell me a little about your urban farm. What’s its name? Size? Die Walhall Heimstätte (The Valhalla Homestead). We’re on a little over 2.5 acres on here the rural-urban fringe of Reading, PA. And aspiring to be a farmstead. What are you growing? Currently on our homestead we raise: Cornish Cross Rock chickens for meat, a various assortment of egg laying chickens, Jumbo coturnix quail for eggs and meat, a couple of turkeys, and our newest edition 17 welsh harlequin ducks.![](https://www.urbanfarm.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Featured-Farmer-Alex-Platz-6.jpeg)
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