We had a busy weekend out at the farm. Unfortunately, not busy doing the things we had intended to do… We arrived at the farm to find the electric poultry netting shorting out due to standing water in the run. There was also standing water in the chicken coop. Talk about a nasty (and smelly) …
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Chickens & Rabbits Update – They love colony living!
So last weekend Johnny and Natalie were in Indiana for a wrestling tournament. The other kids and I went out to the land and we’re able to add on a second poultry net to make a larger enclosure for the rabbits and chickens. We also added a dividing hot wire partly to keep them in …
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Chickens and Rabbits!
So we had a very exciting and very productive weekend at the Taylor farm. We’ve been looking for some replacement rabbits as the Californians we started with just weren’t very friendly. The kids really want to be able to pet them and interact with them and those rabbits were just downright MEAN. In fact, the …
Baby Chicks!!!
So we FINALLY got to bring out baby chicks this weekend. The kids were soooooo excited. We got quite a bit done on Saturday, as you can see here. We got our roosting bars built and assembled some pretty cool gravity fed feeders that hold 25 pounds of feed. It was definitely a neat project …
Sooooooo it’s been a month… Sorry!
We finally went public with our blog and YouTube channel and then boom, a month passes without me posting. Sorry about that. Life just gets busy with school, work, etc. Today’s going to be a long catch-up post so I can bring up guys up to speed. We’ve continued working every weekend at the land …
One Week In
So we’re one week in from purchasing the property and we’ve put in an immense amount of man hours working to clear it. The little kids have been picking up trash…SO much trash! And the boys and I have been working on excavating metal from the ground. It’s painstakingly slow and backbreaking work but we’re …
We Did It!
It’s official – we’re landowners! So exciting. We made our first trip out to the land to start cleaning up and teaching the kids all about poison oak! Johnny made a pretty awesome video to document the current state of the land – you can check it out here! Spoiler alert…sooooo many spiders. Also, the …
Are We Crazy?
Well, maybe. Johnny and I have been married 15 years and we have always talked about having our own farm. We’ve always been very frugal and careful with our finances but the dream was still a dream. We hoped that when we retired, we would be able to purchase a retirement home on some land, …
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