Chickens that lay during the winter…

Starting a Farm Business Update I have been reading the Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens book.  In a section that nothing to do with laying hens, there was a comment…

Foraging

Weekly Update I continue to read my chicken book.  I haven’t had much time to do my “business” planning.  The book is due back to the library soon so I…

Chicken Breeds

Starting a Farm Business Update Last week, I mentioned that I would start making a business plan specific to our chicken business.  I check out the book Storey’s Guide to…

Cottage Foods

Starting a Farm Business Update Okay, so I started working on the big Farm Business Plan the past couple of weeks.  I found this website where you can do a…

Prepping for sunflower planting…

Starting a Farm Business Update I am just incredibly excited to start planting my sunflowers but I still need to do a little bit of research.  I know that I…

Growing potatoes in a bag

Just because we don’t have our farm yet, doesn’t mean that we can’t grow a good amount of our own food.  Denise got a potato bag for Christmas and we…

Flowers on the farm?

In mid-March, I listened in on the Small Farm Summit. It was 4 days of presentations all about sustainable, small farm business.  There were 4 presentations each day and they…

Find a local farm

Okay, I want to support my local farmer until the time when we are the local farmer!  So, I have made 2 goals toward this: 1) find a place to…