Posted on March 6, 2019
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Our farm is currently not too terribly taxing when it comes to the amount of labor we have to invest to keep it running on a daily basis. During winter we don’t have any meat chickens out on pasture because there is no real… Continue Reading “A Break From the Farm”
Category: Farm LifeTags: Chicken coop, chickens, Farm, farm fresh eggs, Farm Life, Great Pyrenees, laying hens, learning as we grow, LGD, pasture raised, small scale farming, Small-scale Farm, vacation, vacation from the farm, vacay, winter, winter on the farm
Posted on January 17, 2019
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It’s been a while. How are you? Sorry we haven’t posted lately, but sometimes life gets a little busy with kids, jobs, side jobs, side-side jobs, and side-farm jobs. Since our last blog post we have pretty much finished up all of our major… Continue Reading “Pastured Poultry Update”
Category: Farm Life, FeaturedTags: Chicken coop, chickens, Cornish cross, farm blog, Farm Life, farming, hoop coop, learning as we grow, pasture raised, poultry, poultry farm, raising turkeys, small farm, small scale farming, Small-scale Farm, turkey, turkeys
Posted on July 10, 2018
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As I’ve mentioned in past blog posts, Shannon and I both work full-time off-farm jobs. I spend my days running my own business and doing physical labor outside from March – December, while Shannon spends her days inside laboring mentally. Coming from the corporate… Continue Reading “Farming on the Side”
Category: Farm LifeTags: Farm, farming on the side, Garden, growing vegetables, growing your own food, LGD, Livestock guardian dogs, making time, part time farming, raising chickens, small scale 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 2, 2018
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We posted a blog post last week that details how we’ve managed our chick brooders in the past and what we’re doing this year, but we just wanted to give you a quick run-down of what we think are brooder essentials. These are all… Continue Reading “7 Essentials for Chick Starting (brooding)”
Category: Farm Life, How-TosTags: Baby Chicks, brooding, chick starting essentials, chicken brooding, chicken farming, essentials, Farm, farming from scratch, how-to, learning to farm, learning to grow, necessities, new chicks, poultry farm, small scale farming, Small-scale Farm
Posted on February 19, 2018
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Chickens are often jokingly referred to as a gateway animal. We’re not laughing. Okay, maybe a little, but they’re the reason we’re in this mess in the first place. We had plans in place to get chickens since the day we first moved to… Continue Reading “Choosing Chicken Breeds”
Category: Farm LifeTags: Americana, Baby Chicks, Black Australorp, breeds, Buff Orpingtons, chicken breeds, chickens, cuckoo marans, Easter Eggers, farming, LFK, microfarm, Rhode Island Red, Silver gray dorking, small scale farming, Speckled Sussex, Tetra Brown, White Leghorns
Posted on January 22, 2018
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So, we did a thing. We did a big thing. We thought a lot about the thing and researched the thing like crazy. We just came home with two Great Pyrenees puppies. They are possibly the cutest things on this planet, even covered in… Continue Reading “We Did a Thing.”