Category: Farm Life
Posted on June 19, 2018
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If you follow the farm on Instagram (@1450farm), you’ll sometimes see Shannon post that farming is hard. It is. As I mention last week, we lost some turkeys in the brooder, and while they were just a few day old turkeys, it’s still not… Continue Reading “Farming is Hard”
Category: Farm LifeTags: animals, damage, death, death on the farm, farming, farming is hard, Garden, hail, kansas, learning as we grow, learning to farm, on the farm, pelted, plants, poults, storm, thunderstorm, turkeys
Posted on June 12, 2018
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Coming into this farming season, we decided to ramp up our enterprises a bit to trial run some ventures we thought we’d like to add to the farm. The no-brainer first addition was the pastured broilers. Since we have raised egg layers and culled… Continue Reading “Turkey Talk”
Category: Farm LifeTags: country, curious, failure to thrive, Farm, Farm Life, food, funny turkeys, high protein feed, homestead, kansas, learning as we grow, locally sourced food, meat birds, new, organic, poultry, poults, raising organic, raising turkeys, raising your food, small farm, stargazing poults, turkey, turkeys
Posted on June 5, 2018
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Farmers often have to think about and deal with sick or injured animals, but what happens when the sick one is the farmer? Recently we’ve had the misfortune of finding the answer to that question here on our farm. A couple of weeks ago… Continue Reading “When the Farmer is the One Sick”
Category: Farm LifeTags: antibiotics, blood tests, Bravecto, bug soother, deet, doxycycline, ehrlichia, ehrlichiosis, farm chores, Farm Life, farmer is sick, insects, learning as we grow, low, low white blood platelets, lyme disease, planning, sick, tick, tick-borne, ticks, white blood cells
Posted on May 22, 2018
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I can’t stand letting bananas go to waste after their prime and here in our family, we LOVE us some banana bread. It makes a great, quick breakfast for the boys on busy weekdays and Aaron loves to have a slice as dessert when… Continue Reading “A Lighter yet delicious Banana Bread Recipe”
Category: Farm Life, RecipesTags: baked, baking, banana, banana bread, bread, coconut oil, healthier, healthy, honey, honey baked, ingredients, lighter, Recipes, sweetened with honey, yummy
Posted on May 16, 2018
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As we’ve mentioned in previous blog posts, this year is the first time we’ve decided to trial Cornish Cross chickens to see how they perform as prospective meat birds on our farm. Well, we just got our inaugural batch back from the processor last… Continue Reading “Our Cornish Cross Results”
Category: Farm Life, RecipesTags: chicken, Cornish cross, cornish cross chicken, Farm, farming, heritage breed chicken, homesteading, learning as we grow, muscovy, Muscovy duck, poultry, processing chicken, raising chickens, roasted chicken, Small-scale Farm, trial
Posted on May 8, 2018
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Our poor garden has been put on the backburner this spring as we’ve tackled other projects, dealt with crummy weather, and juggled trying to work full-time jobs while raising two kids. We developed a pretty good garden plan over the winter and started hundreds… Continue Reading “Planting the Garden”
Category: Farm LifeTags: Farm, Farm Life, farming, farming vegetables, Garden, grow your own food, growing vegetables, kansas garden, learning as we grow, planting the garden, soil, vegetable garden, Veggies
Posted on May 1, 2018
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As we begin to figure out what direction we want our farm to take, we’ve tried to set everything up to include our two little boys. The original intent of this endeavor was for our family to eat really great, clean food. People have… Continue Reading “Kid-Friendly Raised Garden Beds”
Category: Farm Life, How-TosTags: children, children who cgarden, farming with kids, gardening with kids, growing your own food, homestead, kids, kids garden, learning, learning as we grow, vegetable garden, veggie garden
Posted on April 24, 2018
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It finally feels like we’re turning the corner into Spring! Now that the weather is nice, everything seems to be moving at the speed of light. We have so many tasks on our farm to-do list that it doesn’t feel like we’re ever going… Continue Reading “Our Newest $300 Chicken Coop”
Category: Farm Life, How-TosTags: $300, budget farming, cattle panels, cheap, Chicken coop, chickens, coop, creative, Farm, hoop coop, how to build, how-to, laying hens, learning as we grow, on a dime, pallets, poultry, saving money farming
Posted on April 17, 2018
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Well, here in Kansas it seems we have set off some sort of eternal winter. We have had snow (albeit not much) the last three weekends….of April! Nonetheless, we have been moving forward with our plans here on the farm, even if Spring refuses… Continue Reading “April Farm Update”
Category: Farm LifeTags: asparagus, Chicken coop, chickens, cold, coop, Cornish cross, dogs, Farm, farm update, farming on a budget, Great Pyrenees, kids, LGD, new coop, pallets, poultry, puppies, small scale, small scale farming, Spring
Posted on April 12, 2018
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There are a lot of contentious issues in the food/agriculture world: GMO vs. Non-GMO, Organic vs. Conventional, Grass-fed/finished vs. Grain Finished, and on and on and on. Perhaps the most misunderstood of these issues, however, is the Cornish Cross chicken. If you’ve ever watched… Continue Reading “Raising Cornish Cross Chickens”
Category: Farm LifeTags: broilers, chicken, chickens, Cornish cross, Farm, farming, learning as we grow, learning to farm, pasture raised, poultry, raising your food