by admin | Jan 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
Over the years, we have had issues with predators killing our poultry and stealing eggs. Mostly, it’s been racoons, skunks, possums, weasels, and crows (check out a past blog on them here). We have solar-powered predator control lights all over the poultry pasture...
by admin | Jan 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
Last week, Greg pruned up all 27 of our orchard trees, rows of grapes and berries in the garden. He then sprayed the orchard trees with dormant spray. We are all ready for things to start blooming this spring. Pruned orchard Winter is also the time to plant trees...
by admin | Jan 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
If you have not read our post about maggot farming from back in August, check it out. Over the years of using the top of our primary chicken coop run, we have turned well over 100 dead decaying animals into plump maggot treats for the chickens below. This decaying...
by admin | Jan 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
2020 went out with a BANG, quite literally. Yesterday, the mobile slaughter company came out and helped harvest our Scottish Highlander bull and a lamb. We had hoped that they would be processed closer to Thanksgiving given that they were scheduled since mid-summer,...
by admin | Dec 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
Merry Christmas to everyone!! A few weeks ago, we harvested our turkeys for Thanksgiving. We also butchered our alpaca. It was kind of a sad day to do this, but this animal was a token animal that wasn’t really contributing to the farm. We took most of the meat and...
by admin | Dec 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
With last weekend being Thanksgiving (or a couple of weekends ago since we are late posting), we hope you were all able to enjoy some time with friends and family, even if it may have been through a screen or at a distance. The weekend before Thanksgiving was our...
by admin | Nov 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Did you know that asparagus will regrow every year and last over 20 years if taken care of? Also, every year, you can harvest thousands seeds to increase the size of harvest. Last week, our female asparagus were turning from green to brown. We harvested the...
by admin | Nov 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
Persimmon Tree Persimmon We have one young persimmon tree in our orchard. This year was the 1st that it really took off. If you do not know what a persimmon is, it is a fruit and widely known in Asia. We picked the persimmons and then let them sit indoors at...
by admin | Nov 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
We had been thinking about what to talk about this week in our blog, and then it hit me when I was outside pulling electrical wire through conduit. Electrical. You may have noticed there was not blog last week. That was because Greg was off elk hunting...
by admin | Oct 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
In early June, we had our yearly delivery of 60 two-day-old turkeys. That is the latest time in the year we can get baby turkeys, and we do this because we sell pasture-raised fresh turkeys just in time for Thanksgiving. Our turkeys are a month or two older and larger...
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