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Habby Valley Homestead

We are a family of six living on our family farm near Mansfield, MO.

02/22/2026

Noelle had a beautiful heifer calf on Wednesday morning during our February heat wave. We now have two steer calves and two heifer calves for the year. Not a big herd of babies, but we are blessed. Unfortunately Noelle has forgotten how to be calm during milking and does not enjoy her time in the barn. We are praying she calms down and the hormones level out…she is exhausting to milk right now.

12/26/2025

Annabelle did a good job. A little Holstein/Brown Swiss heifer born on Christmas day.

03/16/2025

We grew a lot of stuff last year, but we were also working on growing this precious little baby. It was a long winter to be pregnant on a homestead, but spring seems to be here and so is our new little one.
We want to introduce Jesse Lee. He was born early Wednesday morning - in a big hurry to enter this world. His names mean “God exists, God’s gift” and “a place of shelter.” Very fitting names for our little caboose. We are so very blessed and look forward to seeing how God works in his and all of our children’s lives.

12/28/2024

We had a wonderful Christmas! Lots of love and effort went into making it a memorable holiday.
We are so thankful for the reason we have to celebrate this time of year. Jesus left his throne in heaven and took on himself the form of mankind. Being fully God and becoming fully man, Jesus came so that we might have life everlasting with him. He was born, lived a sinless life, died a criminal’s death, and was raised again so that we might have redemption through his blood. We celebrate Jesus birth, remembering his sacrifice; looking forward to his soon return.

11/08/2024

Loads of milk coming in from the barn - Boo (our milk cow’s calf) was successfully adopted by one of our beef cows, named Callie, who lost her big breech calf during delivery. Unfortunately Callie doesn’t seem to have much milk, so he is being supplemented and is also learning to steal off of Clementine who has her own calf.
Our fall piglets are growing fast. They are a month old and they and their momma are looking for a new home. Peony is a registered American Guinea Hog.

10/18/2024

Nicole here - We have a baby bull calf! Annabelle did so good yesterday and is such a good mama. To think she was a runty little worm laden calf just two years ago. We will be milking our ladies in the old milk barn here on the homestead. It’s been over 20 years since we had cows in the barn. I’m so happy I’ve cried…at least a couple times. The milk barn was my quiet place as a teenager. Truly it was my refuge from the storms of life. Many prayers prayed, many songs sung, and many tears shed in this humble old building. I’m so grateful I get to share this special place with my family and so grateful for a hard working husband who makes all of this financially possible. He also helped keep clean out the ceiling demolition mess last week. That was gross!

10/07/2024

Miss this place so much. Home is home, but Wyoming will always be home too. Nathan and the boys went hunting this week for mule deer. No harvest, but they had a good time hiking and being together.

10/01/2024

The kitchen has been hopping the last couple of weeks. Fermented Jalapeños rings, fermented Serrano chili siracha, tomato sauce, and finally a huge batch of jalapeño siracha now fermenting in the kitchen. All of this siracha, though fermented, will have to be canned up as it will last well over a year. This year was a pepper year. Next year may not be a pepper year and we can grow more of something else. The pepper rings fermented for one week and are perfectly crisp, bright green slices of spicy happiness. 🌶️

09/18/2024

Nicole here ~ This is a photo of the original homesite back in the 80s (as far as we know the farm was on both side of the road). So similar yet so very different. We have found aerial plat map photos clear back to 1949. The property had a large orchard with over 60 trees. Photos like this make me long for restoration of the farm to its former glory. The property had so much more grazing land and so much less thorns and thistles.
We have been very busy late summer and early fall with the garden, homeschooling, and just life in general. 🍁 Fall is in the air with the leaves changing and falling and cooler nights. Tomatoes are pretty well done and will be getting picked clean this week.

08/29/2024

Isn’t she lovely! Tomato’s are still going strong as is the okra. Onions have been pulled up. Shallots will be coming out soon. The hot peppers are starting to ripen so they are also coming into the house in batches. We did something different because of the lateness of building our last four beds by starting zucchinis, cucumbers, and small melons in cups in July to transplant out. They are starting to produce fruit now and are beautiful plants. Cabbage and broccoli plants were sadly decimated by caterpillars so went to the chickens. We will be direct sowing some fall greens in their place very soon.

08/12/2024

A new year of school has started. Ethan is a 7th grader, Lillian is in 6th, Wyatt is in 4th, and Elli is in 2nd grade. The kids did great with their morning lessons. Our kids are growing up so fast and turning into amazing, interesting people.

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