The Sustainable • Local Centre County Shopper's Guide

Sustainable Local Centre County

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Piper Hill Farm & Peacock Ridge Retreat Center

Natural foods and energy medicine

Piper Hill Farm & Peacock Ridge Retreat Center
Work: 814-353-8492
980 Forest Avenue
Bellefonte, PA 16823
Open by appointment

Nancy Baker, PhD, Proprietor, is a farmer, a psychologist with a focus on mind-body psychology, a Celtic shaman, a spiritual alchemist, a Reiki master, a certified clinical hypnotherapist and a certified spiritual director.

Farm offerings

The mission of Piper Hill Farm is to raise animals in the most peaceful and healthy manner possible, with a resulting product that is both healthy for us, and very tasty. We specialize in grass raised, truly free range products available to purchase or reserve, depending upon availability:

  • Beef — pure bred, pastured Scottish Highland cows; all hay consumed is non-sprayed. Bred with a certified Red Angus bull in autumn. The calves are slow growing but customers report the best beef they’ve ever had!
  • Turkey — grass raised from day one, free range from 3 1/2 weeks. Reservations accepted throughout the year; butchered the day before Thanksgiving.
  • Chicken — grass raised from day one, free range from 1 1/2 weeks. Reservations accepted throughout the year, September delivery.
  • Duck — grass raised; call for availability.
  • Eggs — from free range and organically fed hens, available most days.
  • Juvenile peacocks
  • Peacock feathers

Piper Hill Farm is also the area’s local dealer of Nature’s Best Certified Organic feed, by Kreamer Feeds of Kreamer, PA. Featuring a full line of organic feed for farm, backyard flock, and horses.

Retreat Center offerings

Peacock Ridge Retreat Center at Piper Hill Farm is an active, small retreat center featuring an 80’x80’ Chartres Labyrinth and a Native American Medicine Wheel, as well as Sacred Circle Dancing. The farm is surrounded by woods through which you can connect more closely with nature.

Stepping Out and Stepping In: Using Energy to Transform Your Life is a retreat series that teaches foundations of change through transformation, utilizing the Earth’s transformative energy. In the second and third sessions, participants will expand their healing by connecting to the energy of the Universe, resulting in a flow of life force that begins in the Earth and cycles up to the Heavens and back down.

Retreats can be booked for large or small groups, as well as for differing levels of experience with energy work. Additionally, retreats can be designed for a more personal and individual level.


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