New Life Around The Farm

With summer around the corner, things are blooming on the farm! We recently bought Wilbur, a weeping willow tree, for our pond. The strong winds have been hitting him hard, so dad made him a brace. His trunk will grow up to six feet in diameter, and he can grow five to six feet a year!

Our pond is also home to multiple frogs and HUNDREDS of eggs and tadpoles! What we want to know is how did the frogs even get here?!




Our asparagus is popping up all over the place! We mowed down the unruly grass and now the asparagus gets lots of sunshine. We have harvested enough for a few dinners. Yum!








Our friend Ken brought one of his bee hives out to our farm. They are happily buzzing around by the garden. Our farm provides a dry, protected area with plenty of pollen and a direct path to water. We are hoping to sample some of their honey later this year.

Prize Winning Video

Recently Caroline entered a Murray McMurray Hatchery video   contest. She went out and filmed a little tour of our coop, edited it, and sent it in. About a week after that, we were looking at the website, and there was Caroline's coop tour! For being a weekly winner, she got a gift from Murray Mc Murray; a super snazzy MUG!

Time for fish?

Welcome to our 50th blog post! Since Tuesday night, we have received five inches of rain. Our pond is filling very quickly. It rose more than four feet in two days! We have made lots of progress on the dock.  It has all of the railings on and deck boards screwed down. We are predicting that by the end of the week the pond will be full. Only eight more inches!

Our marsh is pouring into the pond like crazy!

Happy April!

Two cool chicks :)

Happy birthday, chicks! Today the chicks are one month old and they are already living in the coop. This past weekend, we worked to partition off part of the chicken coop. They were getting too crowded in the brooder.
Their new area is almost double the size!

Natalie and Izzy snuggle up

The decking is almost done!

The Rest of the Flock

Meet Milly, Stella, Hazel and Penelope. They are my Black Star chickens. Black Stars are also called Black Sex-link because when they hatch, the males are colored differently than the females. I chose this breed for a pen of three at the fair. They are prolific layers of large brown eggs and also very hardy. They are a wonderful all-around breed and will definitely be stars in our flock!    ~Caroline

For my pen of three this year, I got four Delaware chicks. Their names are Izzy, Patsy, Betty, and Annie. All my girls love to flap around and sing. Delawares are globally endangered birds. When they are older, they will be white with black speckled necks and lay large brown eggs. I can’t wait to take three of these girls to the fair! ~Natalie

Wet Weekend

Our pond is finally filling up! After about two inches of rain over the weekend, the water by the dock is almost eight feet deep. The water level rose roughly six feet this weekend! This morning, our first visitors arrived for a swim. 




Thanks to all of our customers who came out in the rain to meet our chicks.

Chick Days

Dark Brahma hen

Nellie, the Dark Brahma

Did you know that Dark Brahma chickens have feathered feet? I have two Dark Brahma chicks, Nellie and Jolene. They are very noisy and energetic. When they are older, they will lay brown eggs. It is going to be interesting to see what my girls look like as they get older. I can’t wait until they start laying!

~Natalie

Golden Laced Hen

Golden Laced Wyandottes are beautiful birds and great layers. I chose them for the show bird category. Doris and Ingrid, my Golden Laced Wyandottes, are very playful and friendly. When they start laying, they will lay big brown eggs. This breed is considered rare, so we are lucky to have two of our very own!

Ingrid, Golden Laced Wyandotte

~Caroline