laughing frog farm

04/17/2025

This dude is a long way from the pond. I guess he just wanted to see me, so he came to the barn.

03/11/2025

Everyone is fixated on the high cost of eggs, so I thought it would be a good time to repost an old blog on getting free eggs from your own chickens.

So the high cost of food is wrecking your budget. Why not raise your own chickens and get eggs every day, paying only for a little feed?First you need chickens. You buy them as babies, preferably o…

12/24/2024

Merry Christmas, Happy holidays. Wet and warm for typical Christmas weather.

09/29/2024

After 20 years we are closing the farm in Texas. We plan to relocate to a smaller operation soon, moving to a more liveable and farmable climate. We will be doing something that includes agriculture, permaculture, and counterculture once we settle in our new location. I will continue to go to the Urban Harvest Farmers Market every Saturday through October.
All our livestock has been sold, though we may restock at the future location.
Thanks for all the support we have had through the years. I will keep this page and notify you of our new location when we have found it.
It will take a long time to make this transition and I am excited about what will come next.
I have a concept of a plan..

09/19/2024

Two greats are getting together--Blue Heron Farm and Little Kitchen. We will be there, though probably too late for pizza. Good pizza, good beer, mischievous goats.

Everything is up and running again and we're going to have pizza this weekend! Come see us.

08/14/2024

my phone decided it was time to quit so if you want to get ahold of me for the next few days do it here or at [email protected]

06/10/2024

I caught this little guy stealing eggs. I relocated him somewhere where he can earn his keep as a rat snake, not an egg thief. Then I returned to the hen house to find his sister was skeedaddling out a crack in the floor. I wasn't fast enough to catch her. Later.

06/09/2024

One of those who helped guide me into adulthood has died.

When I was 17 I walked into Berea College without a clue. When I wandered in to the Tab, the theatre on campus, I was welcomed without hesitation, by Paul and Barbara (Byrd) Power and all the older theatre students that were preparing a summer theatre season. They just put me to work. “Do you want to know how to work the light board?”. That was the beginning of me finding my path that made college a wonderful experience.

I learned so much about compassion and understanding. There was a peacefulness about her that could fill a room.

From when I was in her living room watching Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, to having lunch with her at the college farm store this February, she remained a mentor, and she was the last one standing. Her brain never slowed and physically she looked better than any 90 year old I have known.

I am grateful to have been one of the many she watched over and grateful that she and Paul are part of my journey.

Rest in peace, Byrd. So many of us love you.

The photo is from almost a decade ago, but the last one I had of us.

05/31/2024

The chickens have begun the task of clearing this area for a fall garden. Next we will plant a cover of black eyed peas to cover the soil and add nitrogen
We will have whole chicken for sale at the market tomorrow.
Get your raincoat and come visit us.

05/22/2024

On Sunday June 2 we will have a class on the building of healthy soils through permaculture techniques using plant guilds, animal rotation, and water capture. The class will concentrate on improving soils through dynamic management to grow healthy animals and plants with minimal input of fertiliser and irrigation. The class will be presented by Carol Burton and Glen Miracle.
The class is part of Urban Harvest’s permaculture program.
Please message me if you need more information.

Soil Health Permaculture Workshop Date: Sunday, June 2, 2024 Time: 10:00AM – 3:00PM Location: Laughing Frog Farm, 38238 Wiggins Rd, Hempstead TX 77445 Presenters: Glen Miracle and Carol Burton Cost: $45 This is a hands-on workshop on techniques in how to regenerate healthy soil, capture and store ...

05/19/2024

We just wrapped up our food forest class at the farm with Urban Harvest . We have our last spring class on June 2. It will be an intro to permacultre .

05/17/2024

I have a gardening class on Sunday and the plants we are going to use are in this labyrinth. Texas chainsaw manicure.