Welcome to our little slice of heaven, or as we like to call it, "The Plantation of Questionable Life Choices." We're humble homesteaders, attempting to turn this plot of land into a thriving ecosystem of chaos and veggies.
Homesteading, where 'Crop rotation' becomes a fancy way of saying 'Musical Chairs for vegetables!'
2025 GOALS
Every year we sit down and write our "Wishlist" of everything we want to accomplish throughout the year. Generally, we get very ambitious and realize later in the year that there are way too many items on our list to turn into reality.
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2025 Will be an ambitious year for us as well as these are our goals for our Homestead:
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1. Build a bigger greenhouse out of wood with PVC or glass panels.
2. Move all of the coops and runs and make it more accessible and modular for all three.
3. Build a bigger composting area that's fenced in (because while the chickens are excellent compost turners... they are also MESSY compost turners LOL) - DONE 1/6/2025
4. Focus on the Propagation of existing plants.
5. Get those damn Bananas to produce LOL
6. Plan out what we want to plant this coming year. (I always add a few plants that we've never tried before to see how they are doing on our property).
7. Concentrate on planting more flowers on our Homestead, an area I feel we really lack in!
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2024 Goals (All have been completed)
1. Expand garden beds and add about 20 raised beds.
2. Pick out and plan Food Forrest.
3. Start buying Fruit trees and get them into the ground.
4. Add a second Flock of chickens with multipurpose breeds. (We chose Bielefelders and Jersey Giants)
5. Add 3 Turkeys. (We added 5!)
6. Get a Bee Hive and start with bees for Honey Production.
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OUR FURRY AND FEATHERED FRIENDS
Our farm is home to a variety of chickens including Bielefelders, Jersey Giants, and a variety of Barnyard mixes. We've also just acquired Turkeys, and Bees. We believe in treating our animals with love and respect, and we know that happy animals make for better eggs, meat and honey. Click here to learn more about our animals. (Coming soon)
FEATURED PRODUCTS
ABOUT "ON OUR OWN HOMESTEAD"
We are Mel & Chris Adams, and this is our Journey to a more self-reliant life. It's filled with many clumsy, awkward, and funny moments. We love our life. We love our Smart house, technology, and our modern conveniences. But we also love growing things, being Chicken & Turkey owners, cooking from scratch, and aiming for a more self-sustaining life. On top of that we also create our own herbal products. (This was born out of necessity when Mel got diagnosed with what feels like a random assortment of Auto immune diseases over the course of a number of years). And we're doing all of that on 1.25 acres. Hang on, can we be a Micro Homestead?
To keep life interesting we are also Insect Breeders and breed Discoid Roaches for Reptile feeders (5 successful years and counting) and ship those all over the United States daily. If you find yourself in need of Discoid Roaches please feel free to check out Luna Roaches!
Buckle in, promise that occasionally it'll get really weird! I mean we are Cockroach breeding Homesteaders... what could possibly be strange about our life? ;)
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