KochLand Homestead

KochLand Homestead Welcome to the Homestead at KochLand. We are a small 3ed generation farm on 78 acres in the mountains of Central Pennsylvania.

We are working towards become self sufficient using permaculture, organic, primitive, and traditional skills and tools.

Dad planted two apple trees when I was maybe 7-8 years old along with a peach that didn't make it a year. A couple years...
03/26/2026

Dad planted two apple trees when I was maybe 7-8 years old along with a peach that didn't make it a year. A couple years ago we lost an apple. In October half of the surviving one fell over in a wind storm. This afternoon I got around to cleaning it up and figured I'd cut the rest down thinking it was rotten all the way through. But after cleaning up all the rotting stuff I think it may not be after all. I'm going to trim off all the small stuff so it doesn't waste its energy trying to grow and we will see what happens. I've seen trees do weirder things. What do you think, is it savable?

8" and counting.
01/25/2026

8" and counting.

The calm before the storm.....
01/24/2026

The calm before the storm.....

It's a bleak, cold and windy day on the ol Homestead. I'm in full hibernation mode and ready for spring. But what really...
01/15/2026

It's a bleak, cold and windy day on the ol Homestead. I'm in full hibernation mode and ready for spring. But what really keeps me looking forward is the countdowns and signs.
100 days till Knoebels opens
Seed catalogs coming
Food trucks and ice cream places starting to prepare
31 days till the Daytona 500
Concert announcements
Campgrounds scheduling preseason clean up days

I know we have a long way to go and The next 6-8 weeks can be brutal but I'm always looking for any signs the are coming.

Tell me yours!

We went straight from Frost to snow on the pumpkins!
11/11/2025

We went straight from Frost to snow on the pumpkins!

Something snacked on a pumpkin. What do you think it could have been? We have our ideas....
11/03/2025

Something snacked on a pumpkin. What do you think it could have been? We have our ideas....

Sometimes volunteer plants aren't so volunteered. Dumping out a bag of mulch today I found these pumpkin seeds that were...
10/16/2025

Sometimes volunteer plants aren't so volunteered. Dumping out a bag of mulch today I found these pumpkin seeds that were sprouting. I'm guessing it was a rascally mouse. Either way I covered it up so we'll see what happens next year, there was also some corn seeds in there too.

It's stock making day!
10/14/2025

It's stock making day!

10/08/2025
10/06/2025

A collage of some pictures from Saturday's pumpkin Fest in Jersey Shore PA

We are set up here at Pumpkin Fest in Jersey Shore selling a variety of decorative gourds come see us until noon!
10/04/2025

We are set up here at Pumpkin Fest in Jersey Shore selling a variety of decorative gourds come see us until noon!

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Hiller Hill
Jersey Shore, PA
17740

Telephone

+15709270259

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