Two Sparrows Farm

05/17/2026

Baby born Saturday morning!! 😍
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Healthy Hereford cross bull calf - he was up nursing in the pasture when I found him. 💪
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🌱 The grass was a little stunted in the cold weather but we’re hoping with some heat & rain, we can salvage more quantity for our 1st hay cutting!
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Every day is busy in this season! 😃 After an early milking, fresh cow/calf & rotating pastures on Saturday we were at a soccer game 40 minutes away then dropping kids at a birthday party…and we celebrated our 17th wedding anniversary by getting caught up cleaning the house & yard 🥳🤦‍♀️
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We *did* share an iced coffee at the soccer game so that kinda counts as a date, right?! 😂
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04/30/2026

Still waiting on those pastures to dry out so we can graze…🌱 thanks to more rain 💦
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In the meantime, this heifer was born this week & she’s a pretty cute consolation prize 😍
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04/22/2026

Happy Earth Day!! 🌎
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Our pastures are READY to graze but the cows are still, unfortunately, confined the cement still. 😕
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The ground is SO saturated with water that allowing any amount of weight on them will cause issues - hooves punch holes in the ground causing bumps and compaction. 😳
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Since we don’t till (ever) we don’t have a lot of options to fix soil compaction beyond planting an annual like daikon radishes and letting them rot in the ground - as they break down they create space to battle compacted soil.
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That’s not something we’re really set up for so we are waiting until the ground is ready for 20 - 25,000 lbs of pressure in small areas (just for our lactating herd!) 🌱
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It’s likely that we will start grazing and begin our first cutting of hay around the same time - the grass will be tall enough to mow around the same time the ground dries out to run cows and equipment on. 🐄
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In the meantime we are all loving the sunshine and warmth!! We’ve waited so long for spring!! 🌷
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04/12/2026

Perfecting ice cream flavors this weekend 😋 No eggs needed - this recipe is quick!
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Raw Milk Coffee w/Organic Cookies & Cream 🍦
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✔️4 cups fresh raw cream
✔️ 1 Tablespoon Vanilla
✔️ 3/4 cup organic cane sugar
✔️ 2 Tablespoons instant {decaf} coffee
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Combine ingredients in a bowl and refrigerate for 15 minutes to let the coffee “brew” a bit ☕️
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Pour into ice cream maker for 20 min or until desired consistency. Crush organic Oreo’s while the ice cream is still churning and eat all of it immediately 🤣
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04/10/2026

Wrapping up the week with lots of eggs, moving milk and making butter 🧈
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Plus, taking care of babies & their mamas 💕
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We have a few good leads on a new weekday milker thanks to our last post - and thank you to everyone who shared it! 😊
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04/08/2026

Yes, we’re hiring 💙 Please read the FULL description ‼️
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I’m looking for a part-time milker on Monday mornings - Tuesday is also available but optional. We need someone who is here on a weekly basis, familiar with the farm, cows, how everything runs and can pick up more hours as part of a team when we want to take time off
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This is a year-round position (not seasonal) and we work in all weather conditions - hot, dry, wet, cold, snow, mud, flies. You name it.
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You will be pooped and/or peed on at some point- hopefully by a cow. 😜
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We need someone who can follow protocols with attention to detail, especially for sanitation and hygiene, can work independently, and can follow directions closely.
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Ability to lift 50 lbs required, be able to communicate clearly and directly. Reliable transportation aka required.
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Optional (for additional pay) would be learning calf chores, moving milk, rotating pastures, etc.
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We pay $100 per milking (approx 2.5-3 hours) and start time is generally between 8 and 9 am.
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I am flexible with start dates but must be available to train thru the summer with a hard start of September
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Please DM if you have questions or would like to connect. We generally have people milk with us as a trial before a concrete offer - don’t be offended. This just isn’t everyone’s cup of tea and it’s better to find out sooner rather than later. 😝
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04/01/2026

It’s been a productive spring break!! ☀️
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New babies + spring cleanup + daily farm tasks 💚
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It’s GREENing up a ton around here but we aren’t anywhere near grazing yet. But we have *hope* of grazing in another month or so 🤞
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03/17/2026

Baby beef girl this weekend!! 🥰
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We are looking on the positive side of this j***y weather and we’re collecting the last of our winter hay stores tucked along tree lines around our property and hay field so we have easy hay access as soon as the ground thaws again. 🚜
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While we have a decent amount of cement & barn space on our farm, there is nowhere near enough to store everything that we need each winter for lactating & dry cows, beef groups, yearling calves and weaning calves; which means we tend to tuck bales along the edges of fields as we bale and wrap them in the summer. Frozen ground makes these easily accessible…muddy ground does not. 😬
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So, today is the day to collect the rest of what we need and we *still* may have to buy a little in to stretch us to grazing season. Looking at the “spring” weather, I doubt we will be grazing before May 1 this year. 😳
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But, no season lasts forever! 🤞😅
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03/14/2026

Oof. And just like that it’s been almost 2 months since I’ve posted anything. 🤦‍♀️
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We’ve been living life this winter - we survived the rounds of arctic blasts with no frozen pipes or damage. 🥳
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We’ve had two cows freshen - one did perfectly fine and one did not. She had a beautiful heifer beef cross and we thought went down with milk fever but then she went down again and never got back up after 5 days of doctoring every 12 hours. 😕
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Eventually, we had to make the painful decision to put her down and end her suffering. It’s a tough loss - no milk income, no beef income, and her monetary value alive. But, it’s always the emotional hit that’s harder, especially when you put so much effort into savings and animal. 🐄
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Having talked to some other farmers, we now think that while she may have had a touch of milk fever (which was fixed with a bottle of calcium) She may have also had a phosphorus deficiency that caused the long-term struggle that no one could identify.
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Normally, all of our dry and heifers are in the same winter pen with a certain type of hay (low alfalfa), continuous access to mineral and protein tubs. However, we had moved this particular cow about 2 weeks before calving because she was bullying other, smaller cows too much. We couldn’t risk the damage to our herd. 🩹
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So, she kept the bulls company who have more intermittent mineral access & we had recently fed an alfalfa bale to them. Alfalfa contains a high amount of potassium which competes with calcium in the bloodstream, blocking the cow’s ability to absorb calcium. This can cause milk fever when her milk comes in and the body will start pulling calcium from her bones, muscles and heart to produce the milk.
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While milk fever is familiar - easily preventable & treatable, the phosphorus was new. Always learning new things!
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Our son Beau has started working with his beef starter calf for the fair this summer - Duncan, who is adorable!!
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And, we were invited to help some friends collect sap during a sugaring Saturday this month! We had so much fun with it and the syrup was incredible. 🍁
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It doesn’t feel like it but we are marching towards spring! 🙌

01/25/2026

😂😂😂

I think they were reading Mike's mind 😆