Here are our latest adventures and stories from the farm.
Meet Classy Fred
Welcome back to the farm everyone. Today is an exciting day for us. Today we picked up Classy Fred who is a rescue horse that Delisa is going to be working with on his ground work and handling as well as monitoring his continued recovery. A little back story on…
New Growth
Welcome back to the farm everybody! Today we are going to talk about new growth on the farm. Some of the growth you might expect and some you might not. Hang out and find out what all is growing on the farm. We are just shy of three weeks past…
Garden: Part 2
Welcome back to the farm. The time has come to continue the garden project. In part one, we prepared a part of our yard to be a garden this year. We started out by mucking out the stall and the chicken coop, gathering waste hay, and mulching leaves. We layered…
The Cold Planning Season
Welcome back to the farm everyone. It has been a while since you have heard from us, I know. The cold winter months are usually the time when less gets done physically and more gets done mentally around the farm. It was no different here. So, what have we been…
Garden: Part 1
It’s a crappy job, but someone has to do it. Welcome back to the farm! We have been away for a couple weeks and I apologize for that. I picked up about 72 hours of overtime in a two-week period at work, which limited time to write about what I…
Electric Fence Build
Shocking Times Welcome back to the farm folks. We are telling the shocking tale of cows with no boundaries and how we handled this! Sit back and enjoy the electrifying tale of regaining our barn from these bullying bovines! (Sorry, puns are my thing!) Shortly after we brought home T-Bone…
Meat Chickens: Part 3
Freezer Camp Welcome back to the farm. This is the third installment of our meat chicken project. As with any project we do, our plan is to be open and honest about the good, bad, and ugly of what it took. This aspect of the project was the toughest for…
Meat Chickens: Part 2
The Chicken Tractor With the brooder completed just in time, our new chicks arrived on schedule and began growing quickly. We ordered thirty Cornish-cross (CC) meat chicks and opted for the one mystery chick. What arrived was thirty-three CC meat chicks and the mystery chick (sending a few extra meat…
Happy New Year!
We all survived 2021! Here is to the new year of challenges and victories to come. Keep pushing and do the work! Stay sunflowery my friends!
Meat Chickens Part 1
Brooding on a Brooder We love chickens. They are fun to watch, they poop wonder breakfast butt nuggets, they spread fertilize and aerate the soil with their scratching. They offer so many beneficial things to the farm. There is one wonderful thing that we love but we don’t get from…
MOOOOre Bovine Blunders
In my defense T-bone looked lonely and it was a really good deal. That is some what a theme around our farm, at least the second half of it. Hopefully this one will turn out better than others have. I heard through a friend of a family member that they…
MOOOving on up!
It was almost an ask for forgiveness rather than permission situation. I have a friend from my time training at the state fire academy that has a cattle operation as a side business. He had posted some of the young steers on his farm on his social media accounts and…
Duck Duck Goose
Hello fellow Sunflowers! Today I want to tell you about another farm failure and learning experience as well as share a building project with you. Hopefully you can learn something from our follies. In early 2021 we being blessed with more eggs than I could stomach eating. So, we put…
Where have we been?
Hello all my fellow Sunflowers. It has been a while and for that I apologize. A lot has transpired since our last blog in late April. Now that things are getting somewhat more manageable in our life, I have found my way back here to offer my apologies and catch…
A Little Who’s Who on the Homestead
Welcome back to the farm. Now that you know who we are and what we are about, I thought it was time for a proper introduction to the big players on the homestead, the animals. I mentioned some of our fury and feathered friends in my first post, but I…
Backstory
Howdy folks!My name is Sam and welcome to the farm. We are hobby farm in central Mississippi and this is our journey. My wife, Delisa, and I have a small farm that we have lived on for about four years now. She bought it as her dream place right about…
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