Kalyn at Elbon Mill Farm

Kalyn at Elbon Mill Farm Keeping it real here on the farm! Sharing my messy life and the skills I’ve learned farming in WV. I freaked out! Creepy!

How Elbon Mill Farm got its name...

My husband and I purchased the farm in 2013 after being transferred from his company's Pennsylvania office to its West Virginia office. We are both originally from WV but spent two years in PA for his job. When we were looking for a house we could pick any city in central WV. Every house we liked had something major wrong with it or went into contract before we

could make an offer. I finally found a farm for sale in Buckhannon, WV which I thought was funny because my great grandparents were from there and when I was little I said I could never live there. It got even more ironic when I realized the house was on the same road as the cemetery where my great grandparents are buried. My husband went and looked at the house and decided he liked it. While he was looking at the house I was still in PA trying to figure out where exactly the farm was and where the property lines were so I could figure out how much pasture there was. While looking at the maps I made the discovery that the property bordered Ours Mill Road and was across from the Elbon Cemetery. The Ours Mill was owned by my great granddad's family! Both of my great grandparent's families are buried in the Elbon Cemetery! There are even pictures of me playing in the river by the property! We bought the farm and then I started to do some researching. The property was once a part of my great-great-great-great-great grandparent's farm on my great grandmother's side, the old log cabin was located just around the hill from us. If my great granddad's family mill hadn't burned, I could probably see it from our hill. My nana used to visit her grandmother just down at the bottom of the hill, the old stone foundation is even still there. The family stories are just all around me here. Without even knowing it and with no real desire to do so we had purchased my history. So in honor of those ancestors dragging my butt back to my roots, I named the farm Elbon Mill Farm. "Elbon" for my great grandmother's family farm on Elbon Hill, and "Mill" for my great granddad's Ours Mill. Now I just have to try to make something of this place to make it worthy off the name.

Ok guys bantams already sold so all I have left is the tomatoes and peppers. Please come buy them all so I don’t try to ...
06/19/2026

Ok guys bantams already sold so all I have left is the tomatoes and peppers. Please come buy them all so I don’t try to plant them 🤣🤣🤣

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Nearly all of these are heirloom varieties which means you can save seed from them if you want. The only ones that might not be are the rainbow bell peppers and the hot salsa peppers cuz they were both a mix of seeds and I have no idea if they used hybrids or heirlooms to make the mixes.

The only other thing I’m bringing tonight will be two pairs of bantam “ameraucana”. They came from blue eggs and have all the Ameraucana features, but they’re not a specific variety so they’re technically Easter Eggers. But if you wanna breed cute little blue egg layers these guys will work for you 😊

See y’all this evening!

Those of you who can shelf stable pickled eggs, what exactly do you do?I haven’t renewed my egg producer permit to sell ...
06/19/2026

Those of you who can shelf stable pickled eggs, what exactly do you do?

I haven’t renewed my egg producer permit to sell eggs (having some trust issues with the government right now 😑) and I’m debating not bothering and just preserving all the things we raise for personal use this year.

I am freeze drying the chicken eggs, and would like to pickle the quail eggs but we usually store them in the fridge. I don’t have room in the fridges for all the quail eggs I produce. 😂 So I need your shelf stable canning methods please and thank you ❤️

I don’t love working in the rain, but I’m thrilled to not need to water. 💧 Milpa seed is sprouting! Most things in there...
06/18/2026

I don’t love working in the rain, but I’m thrilled to not need to water. 💧

Milpa seed is sprouting! Most things in there are gonna be 60-75 days til harvest. So if all goes well I may not get a giant harvest before our first frost, but I should still get some kind of harvest.🤞🏼

Also, I just want y’all to know I’m staring at all the curcurbits sprouting in there now and just hoping they aren’t Hateful Gourds™️ 😂

Anybody ever freeze dried catnip? I have a crap ton of it that I need to preserve but I’ve never done anything but dehy...
06/18/2026

Anybody ever freeze dried catnip? I have a crap ton of it that I need to preserve but I’ve never done anything but dehydrate it.

I need any tips you’ve got for freeze drying it. ❤️

I love her. But I swear if y’all could see what she writes on the seeds she brings me…🤦🏻‍♀️“Tall Yellows” do y’all know ...
06/17/2026

I love her. But I swear if y’all could see what she writes on the seeds she brings me…🤦🏻‍♀️

“Tall Yellows” do y’all know how many tall yellow flowers there are?!? 🤣

That little line in the dirt is where I planted my f*cks in the hopes of finally having some to give 🤣I love elephant he...
06/17/2026

That little line in the dirt is where I planted my f*cks in the hopes of finally having some to give 🤣

I love elephant head amaranth and planted it front and center of the veggie garden so anybody driving by will see all my f*cks waving proudly in the air 😂

Elephant Head Amaranth is available from Mary's Heirloom Seeds. It is edible but honestly, I grow it purely for the aesthetic 🤷🏻‍♀️

Ok not gonna lie, this is the first block in the experiment that made me a little sad. 😂 We breeders pass this girl arou...
06/16/2026

Ok not gonna lie, this is the first block in the experiment that made me a little sad. 😂

We breeders pass this girl around all the time, she is ALWAYS in one of our comment sections. And even though her comments are never witty or even particularly interesting, I’m not gonna be able to see her comments on my friend’s posts having blocked her 😭

For those keeping count at home, I’m at 5 blocks since the post yesterday and haven’t posted anything even remotely inflammatory. I fully expect that number to skyrocket when I butcher those two does 😬

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