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Cheyenne Farm WV

Cheyenne Farm is in Summers County, WV and has cows, bees, chickens, guineas, a high tunnel, and more

Follow Cheyenne Farm WV to see what is going on at the farm! We've got cows, chickens, bees, and a garden, and there are always projects going on.

06/15/2026

Pics from the past week.

06/09/2026

All is well on the farm. Jim finished baling and only ended up with 24 bales and he normally gets 40+. He still has a lot of other fields to bale but the forecast doesn’t look great for farmers - should rain on and off for the next 8 days. Hopefully there is a break in weather after that.

I fed my bees sugar water today because they are so weak. I hope I can get them to maintain this year so I can grow them next year. I also planted 2 more rows of beans and a row of okra today. That makes 4 total rows of beans and 4 of corn and 1 of okra. I’m also growing tomatoes, cucumber, watermelon, zucchini, yellow squash, asparagus, blueberries, rhubarb, and cabbage.

Juniper has been so patient with us working on the farms and rental houses and visiting pawpaw in the hospital so we took her for a fun day this past weekend. It did her so good to see her friend and actually have someone she likes to play with.

Time to relax!!

06/06/2026

Jim started mowing, raking, and baling hay this week at our Cheyenne Farm field. He still has several other locations to do, so hopefully we get some good weather coming up. He expects he’ll only get about 27 rolls in our 9 acre field at Cheyenne Farm which is much less than other years.

My garden is doing great so far! I had planted 3 rows of corn a couple weeks ago and those are about 6” tall now, and this week I planted one more row of corn and 2 rows of blue lake beans.

My bees are pretty weak right now and I saw a mouse come out of the hive the other morning, so I added a mouse guard and will be babying the bees.

I’ve got ABC honey for $15/1lb and eggs $3/18 - I can meet in the Hinton or Beckley areas or anywhere between most days.

06/03/2026

Pics from the past week or so. We’ve been pretty busy lately and Jim is getting ready to start cutting hay soon. With the drought this year, farmers may be short on hay for the winter.

On Sunday, I took Juniper to Freedom Park in Beckley. She was excited to see a few other kids there, but one was leaving when we got there and the other two were too busy playing with each other they didn’t notice her. She was so upset they wouldn’t play with her, so I took her out for ice cream. I then remembered there was another park nearby and took her there hoping there would be more kids. We pulled up and I looked over in the direction of the playground and didn’t see any kids. As we walked towards the playground, we heard “is that Juni?!”, and sure enough it was a friend from school arriving at the same time! She was so excited to have a friend to play with and it just made her day - it couldn’t have come at a better time because she was so downhearted about the other kids not playing with her and it worked out well. I really need to find some friends for her - she’s a social kid and loves to be around other kids.

Let’s hope for no rain until the hay is done!! Then, hope for lots of rain to help the garden once hay is up.

05/23/2026

It’s been a challenging week for us and we’ve had to focus on our family. Despite that, we still found time to plant 3 rows of corn before the rain came. I keep telling Juniper the corn should be ready to eat around her birthday time (end of July), but she wishes it were sooner. Juniper is always a big help and she got poison ivy and so we kept her from school today and she came to work with me and kept busy playing with toys and cleaning and she let me do quite a bit of work.

05/12/2026

We’ve hired some help to get us further along on some projects we haven’t had time to finish ourselves. Wixco Group so far is doing a great job on our garage apartment which will eventually be an office for our rental home company, and also on getting one of our rentals fixed and ready to rent out again (and we’ve already gotten applications for without even advertising a vacancy). I’ll hopefully have some pics to share soon. Jim is working on w**d mitigation and mending fence. I’m working on finishing getting all rows in my high tunnel planted and getting the outside garden prepped for planting. Juniper has been helping me, and would you believe at 2 years old she knows the difference between the tomato plants and the w**ds?! She has been picking w**ds when she isn’t dumping dirt all over herself. She’s going to be 3 at the end of July, and I am just in awe of her every day and all the growth I see.

Tomorrow is Election Day for primary elections in WV; please get out and exercise your right to vote!! It’ll be a long day for me…I’m a poll worker.

05/11/2026

And just like that, I blinked and the weekend ended…

Our blind cow had her calf today! We’ve got around 22 calves born so far this year and expecting another 6 or 7 soon.

Juniper had a fun day; we played bubbles and then went to the park today. There was another little girl about Juniper’s age at the park and she made an instant friend.

Pics from the weekend.

05/08/2026

Well, I didn’t expect a hard frost this morning. The forecast said a low of 37degF, but I woke up to 31degF. I hope my plants survived!!

Wednesday evening, our cows were outside the fence at Cheyenne Farm. Jim got them back quickly, and I spent Thursday morning walking the fence line to find the issues. Jim fixed all the issues last night. It would be so easy if the ground was flat, but some of these fences we have are on the steepest hills and it is so hard to walk them- I’m really surprised the cows ventured over there to get out. We’ve had some wind, so there were a couple of trees on the fence, and usually our big culprit is deer that jump the fence and somehow manage to take the fence down as they do that.

The other day, I accidentally left a chainsaw in my car when I went to work. Good thing, because when I got home, there was a tree across the driveway! It wasn’t even that windy that day. I was able to get the tree cut up and out of the way without having to walk 500ft up my driveway.

We’re so busy these days I don’t know if I’m coming or going.

05/05/2026

“Mommy, Mommy”…I swear she must have said it 500 times today. And to think just a year and a half ago I was so jealous that she only said Daddy and it took her a lot longer to say Mommy. 🤣

05/04/2026

Jim and I moved a few more cows from Broomstraw farm to White Oak farm today. Broomstraw doesn’t have enough pasture for the amount of cows we did have. All cows on Broomstraw have calves now and we are just waiting on one or two at Cheyenne Farm to have babies and a few at white oak. It is so hard keeping track of all of the cows, especially since they don’t all have ear tags. We did have a couple beautiful calves born this past few days.

Also this weekend, I got a couple of cats from my friend who is overloaded with cats. Our only cat left town last July, and I always said when I have less dogs I would consider getting cats again. With the loss of our dog Peach, and the overgrowing population of mice in my chicken coop, it was time! The cats have found some good hiding spots and I can’t find them, but I’m hoping they snap out of it soon.

We have a very busy couple of months ahead of us!

Address

Cheyenne Farm Road
Jumping Branch, WV
25969

Telephone

(304) 871-0417

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