Our Farm
Don’s folks, George and Melanie DeVault, built their dream house on twenty acres in Vera Cruz, Pennsylvania that they named Pheasant Hill Farm because of the abundance of wild pheasants on the property. An early architect’s sketch of the farmhouse offered a misspelling of the back “porch” that became a family joke at the same time that the p-o-r-T-c-h became the calm center of activity in the greenhouses and fields.
Stuff We Make
Kombucha, at its most essential, is a sweet tea that has been fermented by a particular culture of bacteria and yeast. The result, when well executed, is a lightly effervescent, mildly acidic beverage containing live probiotic culture and trace amounts of alcohol (<.5% by law).
Our FARMER & Brewer
Don DeVault has worked his family farm off and on for the past 22 years. The focus of production began with a gourmet mesclun marketed and sold to high-end restaurants and city markets. Four-season salad mixes were a perfect complement to his parents’ diverse main-season CSA production on the farm. The market for organic produce changed dramatically over a 5 year period while Don was homesteading in Chile, South America, where his daughter, Lucía, was born.