Willenskraft Farm

11/01/2018

Pin oaks sure do look pretty this year!

04/30/2018

Drilling in native prairie grasses with a native wildflower mix....slowly converting the farm into a nature habitat while restoring the Kansas prairie right here in our own back yard. When I was a little girl I would ride on the planter while my dad sowed seed....this brought back so many good memories

03/21/2018

Didn't get a chance to post yesterday, but this little cutie arrived on the farm just in time for the first day of Spring! Our second mule baby for the farm and another boy!

03/10/2018

Love looking at the sky

03/02/2018

You can't resist a face like this :)

11/05/2017

And so it begins....another season of planting garlic....bulbs are peeled apart clove by clove, ground is tilled, soft and fluffy. Holes are punched into the ground, 80 at a time using our homemade planter. Each clove is carefully placed in the ground by hand, to be covered in straw...to rest over winter and prepare for new spring growth. 2018 will be a time of rest for our farm....we have suspended raising hogs, sending our sows and boar off to a friend in Holton to be used as pasture pigs. We have sold the goats and are reducing chickens. 2018 will be a time for restoring.....restoring our dirt back to a natural state, feeding it with new, homemade, healthy fertilizers and organic matter...restoring our hearts by taking time for ourselves...trying to do less so we can enjoy more...2018 will be a time for regrouping....for concentrating solely on garlic and ground and family time. As with the seasons, with nature...plant and animal...there is always change...and so we begin here...in this moment...with this one small step...planting garlic

10/25/2017

A goose and his dog

10/21/2017

From start to finish....to prepare our fresh ground garlic powder we hand peel each bulb, sort and peel out the cloves, chop them into slices, and then place them in the dehydrator. Once dried, we grind them down to a fine powder....then it's on to the scale for weighing and packaging. Finally each bottle is labeled and sealed for freshness. You can find us at the Maple Leaf Festival in Baldwin City, Kansas this weekend [Oct 21 & 22] selling this and other great garlic products....including our famous Garlic Scape Pesto! Enjoy! Rick and Cindy

10/17/2017

Another October means another weekend we get to spend at the Maple Leaf Festival in Baldwin City! We are preparing garlic powder, dehydrated garlic slices, garlic infused olive oil and our famous Garlic Scape Pesto! We are also adding a few new items for you to try.....garlic SCAPE powder, SMOKED garlic powder, and garlic infused SEA SALT! If you have never been to the Maple Leaf Festival it is a wonderful and HUGE 2 day event that is well worth the drive! Hoping to see some of our friends and our many return costumers. Stop by our booth for free samples as well! Rick and Cindy :)

Join us the third weekend of October for the Annual Maple Leaf Festival in Baldwin City, KS.

08/20/2017

Eighteen 50 lb bags of sugar.....you can imagine the looks and heads shaking in disgust as we left Sam's Club today....funny thing is we don't even EAT refined sugar....our sugars for consumption are honey or natural maple syrup. THIS sugar will be used to feed organisms growing inside several giant fermenting totes....creating an ahhhmazing natural fertilizer once the process is complete. Piece by piece slowly things are coming together!

08/20/2017

3 months old and this baby just keeps growin like a w**d

08/13/2017

Prepping garlic for a new offering to be revealed at the Maple Leaf Festival in Baldwin this year....can't wait to see how it turns out! :)