Spring Creek Farm

11/12/2023

Emmett was recognized at the Iowa Honey Producers Confernce in Ames, IA yesterday receiving the IHPA 2023 Youth Award. He was chosen for the award for his work in promoting and educating others on beekeeping as well as for his enthusiasm and entrepreneurship in starting his own beekeeping enterprise Iowa Bee. Thanks for all of those who have helped and continue to encourage Emmett with his beekeeping journey.
North Iowa Beekeepers Club Iowa Honey Producers Association Latimer Grocery Sharon Elling Pat Ennis

04/10/2013

04/10/2013

Tonight at CAL having a great time leading social media workshop

12/12/2012

Thinking about posting a profile on Local Dirt http://localdirt.com/ but their website isn't working too well and looks like it will cost quite a bit after the first year.

06/22/2012

http://www.springcreekfarm.net/content/7-weeks-later-great-product-and-happy-customers

We took our chickens to be butchered on Tuesday, June 19 after raising them for 50 days (just slightly over 7 weeks). We did a live weighing at 42 days to make sure we were going to make our target weight for butchering. We targeted between 5-6 lbs for our dressed (processed ready to be cooked) ch...

06/22/2012

http://www.springcreekfarm.net/content/chickens-6-weeks

06/22/2012

http://www.springcreekfarm.net/content/rainbow-feed-garden-hampton-iowa

A good farmer always has a good place to go for advice, supplies and ideas. Besides my father who has been farming his entire life, my go to place is Rainbow Feed & Garden in Hampton, Iowa. They have been helpful in getting me up to speed on what is available in terms of feed mixes and they carry ...

06/22/2012

http://www.springcreekfarm.net/content/new-chicken-fence

The chicken fence that my brother and I used 15 years ago was too far gone to be resurrected, so I had to put on my carpenter hat and construct a new one. I am pretty handy but carpentry is not something I have a lot of experience in so I enlisted the knowledge and experience of my father-in-law, M...

06/22/2012

http://www.springcreekfarm.net/content/chicks-after-two-weeks

Hers is an update on the chickens. In these pictures they are about 18-19 days old. They sure do grow fast! They are about 2/3 feathered out and by middle of next week be feathered out completely, so we'll start to let them run outside since they can handle colder temperature and windier conditio...

06/22/2012

http://www.springcreekfarm.net/content/2012-broiler-chicks-first-day-farm

On May 1, 2012 we started raising chickens again on the Spring Creek Farm. It is a long standing tradition of our farm to produce poultry on the farm that has been going on since the farm was started in the 1870s. The tradition now continues with my son as he enjoyed getting the chicks from the loc...