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A small scale high intensity cut flower farm with a side of other homestead offerings and classes.
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We offer special event flowers and localy grown blooms February through November.

10/24/2026

We just sent 3 kunekune pigs to the butcher and it's the first pigs that have really been raised out here for us from piglet to processing. And I'll start with this. We absolutely did not save any money. However, that wasn't really the point of having these pigs. We sent in three healthy pigs that we know what they ate, how they were treated, and they were raised primarily on pasture. Now for the funny part, we eat primarily beef and chicken! So keeping 3 pigs for ourselves was never the plan and they are getting split up between 5 houses. The hanging weights were a bit less than I had hoped for, so I'll likely let the next round grow out a bit longer. We did send off a pig in June but it was for a family member and I didn't ever get to see the weights on him so these are really the first ones I'm getting to run numbers on. This entire round was from the very first piglets I bought last August, and I'm not factoring in any fencing costs, piglet sales, or including the additional things we kept, like the fat. We also opted for a lot of more expensive specialty smoked linked sausages because they are delicious and literally what this butcher is well known for. And here's what I have concluded without going into the tiny details. If you are buying piglets, buying feed, and paying for processing on these guys it's really not going to help you other than the fact that they are fun and taste good. In an attempt to get our cost per pound down I'm farrowing our own piglets and will be attempting to process one right here at home. I think that these pigs are a fabulous addition to our homestead, but as far as becoming profitable or a money saving endeavor.... Not a good investment unless you are willing to put in some extra work and have some pasture for them. If you want to produce meat more efficiently I would look into meat chickens. Will I do it again? Absolutely! Do I think I'll try to make it a side shoot of my business and sell pork regularly? Nope. I'll probably offer a few as a half pig on the hoof here and there but I don't foresee it becoming an entrepreneurial endeavor of mine on any scale.

10/20/2026

We just welcomed our last 2026 litter of kunekune pigs to the farm! What a huge difference between this time last year and now. This time last season I was brand new to pigs, I got 4 with the intention of raising them out and being done with them all together. Simply because the more I learned about conventionally raised pork the less I wanted to eat it. Here we are with a whole heard of both registered and unregistered pigs only a year later. I planned to have a litter in the spring and one in the fall, but some great opportunities presented themselves and here I am welcoming the 4th and final litter of the year! So many sweet little piglets are headed off to new homes and others will stay.

A few thoughts on raising these guys:
* They are the sweetest and have awesome temperaments
* They are smaller and therefore produce less pork per pig something that really doesn't bother me but does make them less economical than a market breed
* They do fantastic on pasture and are easy to move around, making them ideal for our set up. I would not recommend this breed if you don't have any pasture or forage because they will put on too much fat eating only pig feed.
*They are easy on the land and fences. Something that seems abnormal for pigs.

09/28/2026

Come join us Saturday October 3rd from 10am-1pm at the farm! We will be opening up the stand and hosting a fun vendor event this coming weekend. There will be snow cones, coffee, tacos, flowers, ice cream, embroidery, games, baked goods, photo opportunities, piggy petting, and the stand will be stocked! And the pumpkin patch will be open🎉
Our vendor list includes:
Tacos El 88 LLC
Una Mas Mobile Bar
Candice Bowman
Photos by Hannah Noel | Wedding and Portrait Photographers
Blooms By Maddie
Riverhouse
Farm and Flour Homestead- Cottage Bakery & Farm Stand
Wild&Woven
happyheartdesigns25
Qaden Sanchez
And in the farm stand you can find:
Knaughty Farms
stegallcattleco
Sugar Pine Products | All Natural Tallow Skincare & More
Vicci Cook Wackerman
l i n d s e y g i e s b r e c h t
travisnevesapiaries
Patti Mustain cards
And of course our own goods!

09/23/2026

Always feels amazing to get the freezer cleaned out and refilled!

09/17/2026

🍂Harvest pop up and pumpkin patch opening!
October 3rd 10am-1pm at the farm stand, 1792 Highway 45 Glenn. Snow cones, pumpkins, baked goods, fun drinks, sweet treats, locally made goods and piglets of course. Despite the farm stand being temporarily closed due to so many thefts I am still planning to host a fall event because the negative doesn't get to take over. I would love to see you here! The pumpkins got planted a week late and my original event date wasn't going to work so we are just pivoting ☺️

Still looking for a few more vendors so please reach out if you're interested in being a part of this fun fall day.

09/15/2026

Man, this is something I was not expecting to have to do. I'm closing up shop, hopefully only temporarily. Over the last three weeks my inventory and my income have not lined up. At first I wanted to give people the benefit of the doubt, maybe they didn't notice their Venmo didn't go through, maybe they didn't have enough cash on them and would be back 🤷. Stuff happens. But it has become quite apparent that people are willingly stealing and in the last few days it's been DAILY thefts. In the last few weeks I have lost $500+ worth of goods and I simply can't afford to stay open like that. It's extremely disheartening to say the least. Between being extremely busy, coming down with a nasty bug, and then this nonsense...I simply don't have the emotional, mental, or physical bandwidth to keep on keeping on this way. So until I figure out a way to move forward I'm closing her up. The most likely solution will be a lock pad on the door that people will have to message me for the code to. I don't have a full grasp of what all the changes will be, but I'm extremely sad that it's come to this point. I had a lot of really exciting things in the works and as of now I'm not sure what to do. I appreciate absolutely all of you who have been here cheering me on, supporting my stand and paying for your goods. The sweet messages have been greatly appreciated! To know that there are so many of you that care has truly softened the blow.
Our next open date for sure will be October 3rd. We will be hosting a harvest pop up, pumpkin patch opening and a little vendor event from 10am-1pm with lots of fun things. There will be more info on this soon, but in the meantime, the stand is empty....simply because I don't know what else to do.

08/06/2026

2027 spring flowers loading!
Tulips, ranunculus, anemones and more will be arriving over the next three months and it's time to get all their beds prepped and ready for them! (AND YES, I ORDERED EXTRAS 😉) Every fall I'm hit with this small sense of dread. What if.... What if I order too many and can't sell them? What if the local economy won't support flower sales next spring? What if I spend all this money on bulbs and it's a wildly wet year and they all rot? What if I get tulip fire again? But then I'm reminded that it really isn't in my hands. I'll do my best but God's got the rest. I am very thankful for every purchase made here from my farm stand. Thank you all for making this possible and continuing to love on my little farm! I hope to see you all in September for pumpkins!

07/31/2026

Part 2 of my 2026 random meat challenge. Fully self inflicted!

Is it difficult to stick to only buying meat from friends, raising it ourselves or hunting/fishing for it?

Not really, but it does take some planning! 7 full months in and here's my thoughts. At times I have definitely wished we had more of one thing or another. For example, in March we basically ate all beef and pork because we were waiting to butcher more chickens in April. Here we are in July, and I'm rationing our beef, but we have plenty of chicken because instead of ordering a half a cow for July, I asked for it in August when I got on the list months ago. We are also down to our last few pieces of pork, but are still a few months out from butchering another pig. It definitely affects what's on the menu! Which, being the one deciding what to cook every day really only affects me. One area I have definitely fudged the line for is cured meats. I'm still buying pepperoni and occasionally some salami and very seldomly a bit of lunch meat....and honestly I don't care. We are extremely fortunate to have a lot of delicious options available to us that most people don't because of David's parents. Because of them we have been able to enjoy salmon, tuna, cod, crab and shrimp still, which really diversifies the menu. I also didn't jump into this with an empty freezer. I already had chicken from last falls butcher day,canned smoked tuna from last fall, a bunch of chucker and quail David hunted over the winter, and a whole bag of various meat sticks and sausages that was gifted to us from David's hunting buddy. I have learned how to cook a lot of pieces of meat I would have never bought from the grocery store, and honestly that's been pretty fun! Duck&goose German sausage breakfast burritos...pretty dang good. Lumpia, because I had extra plain ground pork, delicious! I find myself hoarding my favorite things however and am far less likely to make something for company if it's in short supply in the freezer. Probably won't be sharing my shrimp or bacon unless I really love you😂. Anyhow, if you have questions let me know! Probably doesn't interest many people, but these are the things I enjoy.

07/31/2026

Raising, hunting, fishing, or purchasing directly from a local friend all our meat for a year..... Let's discuss!

Random little side quest for 2026 is to not purchase proteins from the grocery store, which might be easy if we were vegetarians, but that's far from the case. Our family eats a lot of meat, like roughly 750lbs of meat a year. Between hosting people and our own daily intake that's a lot, so it's been interesting to commit to only eating meats we have raised ourselves, hunted or fished for, or purchased locally direct from the farmer/rancher.

January-failed straight outta the gate and bought chicken for a birthday party we were hosting from Costco 🙈
Also bought a half a cow from stegallcattleco (207 lb) to stock the freezer back up.
February -no bought or added meats
March-butchered a pig and split it with family (73 lb for us) added to the freezer
April-David shot a turkey and we processed meat chickens we raised. Added 40 chickens, roughly 250 lbs to the freezer (bones included in that)
May-no bought or added meats
June-David went sh*****ng with his dad for Father's Day and we ate some immediately (40ish???) and added 100 spot prawns to the freezer. Also sent another pig to the butcher but this one wasn't for us even though we did get to eat some of him!
July-David and the girls went salmon fishing with my father in law and each caught a salmon. No idea weights but roughly two fish worth of meat. And failed for the second time when I had a long day and David grabbed 1 lb ground beef from town because we had nothing thawed 🫣
Miscellaneous between Jan-July we have been gifted or traded with friends for - 2 whole frozen ducks, 2 pks of halibut, some rock cod and I have no idea how much crab.
Also have bought some salami, pepperoni, and about 5lb of various lunch meats over the last 7 months 🤷

Definitely need more space so I'll make another post with things I have found trying, interesting, whatever you want to call it.

07/03/2026

Onion braids loading! I'll have a limited amount of fun onion braids available in the farm stand soon.... First they need to cure! But I have a few questions. Would you guys prefer to purchase them in braids (7-10) or individually?

Address

1792 State Highway 45
Glenn, CA
95943

Telephone

(530) 519-7087

Website

http://www.brokenoakacres.com/

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