The Home Farm

The Home Farm Raising our little family, as well as Shetland sheep/wool/lambs, grassfed hogs, Highland cattle, and more.

Support local, and shop our homegrown products that we offer to our surrounding Driftless Community (🍁syrup, eggs, tallow balm & soap, wool, etc.🫶

06/22/2026

We're thankful for another new baby! This one is half belted Galloway and half highland. We wondered if maybe the last couple calves were out of our white mini bull, but according to everyone's size and color, etc, it looks like Rusteez is the dad:)
This was a first-time mom, so it was a longer birth and a tough calf to pull. But he's up and around this morning!
Makes sense that the only black bull of this crop is being named Edmund;) 🖤
So we have Susan, Lucy, Peter, Aravis, Jadis, and Edmund for this year, wrapping up with our Narnia theme;)

06/20/2026

🌼A few pretty items headed for a restock: ✨️🫧

🌼Three solid dishsoap sets that include a 7 oz bar of dishsoap, a bamboo scrub brush, and one of a kind botanical soap tray.

🌼NEW-Two dishsoap sets that include a 7 oz bar of solid dishsoap, an alder soap dish, and a handmade jute scrubby (compostable).

🌼 A restock of Milk & Honeys custom line of tallow soaps including Chai Latte, Lavendar Air, Honeycomb Cloud, Chocolate Orange, and Dalgona Coffee.

🌼 Four sets of handmade dryer ball sets, made from our sheep wool 🐑

🌼 NEW- The first two of my Happy Herbal Soaps line using herb infused oils and teas with plants I've gathered here on our farm: Dandelion soap and Wildflower soap 🌼🫧 More details on these later!

06/20/2026

This is the first spring I've let them actually go after the turtles. Even a month ago it was "Guys, I saw a snapping turtle in the pond so stay away from it. " and now it's, "Oh you saw a snapping turtle? Did you get it? Get it out of the pond and go dump it in the creek! We don't want them around here."

This is a task that's way too fun for them.

No toes have been lost yet 🤞

Two new heifer calves this week. This mornings is a half highland and half mini highpark, and the calf from Wednesday is...
06/19/2026

Two new heifer calves this week. This mornings is a half highland and half mini highpark, and the calf from Wednesday is half Jersey and half highland.

Jadis and Aravis -- still on the Narnia theme with the calves:)

Synopsis of yesterday afternoon 🌧 Aura migraine 👁 ⚡️ Hunting down the jersey when she didn't come down with the others. ...
06/18/2026

Synopsis of yesterday afternoon 🌧

Aura migraine 👁 ⚡️

Hunting down the jersey when she didn't come down with the others. 🐮

Found she had a heifer calf🥹

Got mama and baby set up with feed &water in the back of the barn. 🐄

Fed the pigs and hauled their water from the creek. 🐖

Fed and watered the hens, let them out to roam, got the eggs, etc 🐔

Got drenched in the pouring rain while i led the sheep to the far pasture and had to go back for several that didn't originally follow, including a mama with new baby from this week and a ewe that apparently was feeling off. 🐑

Moved them over and flipped that ewe over and found she was fighting mastitis. 🐑

Gave her antibiotics. 💉

Jesse got home, and we cut out the two moms still left to calve and put them in the cattle yard where we can watch them. 👁

Auras cleared up after meds while hunting for the cow, so that was a huge help and blessing!

Showers for everyone 💧

Soup for supper 🍲

Church 💗

Was thankful for the headache leaving, for a healthy calf, and for beautiful roses, even if they were broken off by a child stepping on them😄🌹

06/16/2026

Soap saver answers to your questions!

🌿All natural plant fiber from the agave plant

🌿Fully conpostable, minus that little bead;)

🌿A great way to rescue all those little bits of leftover bar soap so they don't sit in water and get mushy.
🌿 Bonus: you can also put the bar in the bag from the start, and it catches any botanicals from your soap if you're worried about those in your drain.

06/12/2026

I wasn't expecting to have to harvest five hundred elephant garlic scapes this week, but with the rain and humidity, they popped up out of nowhere!

I like to harvest things right after a rain so they don't need a wash, then we trim the scapes outside before bringing them in to process up into pesto for the freezer. This stuff is addictive. Here's the recipe we use every year (x6 for us with all these scapes;)).

4 cups blended/finely minced garlic scapes
2 c olive oil (I use 1 cup)
1 cup blended walnuts or whatever nut you have
1 c parmesan
1 c fresh basil blended fine (or 2 Tbs dry)
Season liberally with salt and pepper

I go through and blend up my scapes in the food processor and measure out four cups at a time into big bowls so I know how many recipes worth I have. Then, measure and add the rest of the ingredients into the bowls with the scapes, mix well, pack into jars, and freeze.

This is super handy to have for throwing into soups,spreading on meats, using in marinades, sautéing before adding your eggs (or have it fresh on top), or just serving along side tortilla chips:)

*Tucker helped a little at first but then saw a couple toads and disappeared with those😄 I could hear him walking around the yard saying "I love you, toad!" 😄😄

I forgot to share pictures of these beautiful works of art from a while back 🌸These beautiful creations were made by our...
06/10/2026

I forgot to share pictures of these beautiful works of art from a while back 🌸

These beautiful creations were made by our local using local botanicals.

Both are spoken for, and one of them is in Pennsylvania now, shipped with a dishsoap set.

Again, I love epoxy/resin soap trays for their beauty, water resistance, and durability (they won't shatter when they inevitably fall on the floor or into the sink;)). These trays also scrub up clean from soap residue in about five seconds, leaving them like new again🙌🌸🩷 Plus, flowers. To be honest, that's the real reason for loving these.

Order your trays from !

06/08/2026

Bringing home a new load of library books for several days of rain is always a good idea 📚 📖 ☕️

06/02/2026

🐮This late night reel is in honor of WORLD milk day (June 1st) and DAIRY month! Leslie was born here and has been our family milk cow for a few years now. She provides so well for us, and she is now having a well-deserved break since we dried her up a couple of weeks ago.

We're waiting on a calf, and then we'll be back in milk again. But I'm thankful we can source raw milk from a friend in the meantime! The nutrition levels of raw milk make it liquid gold ✨️ 🥛 and makes it hard to go back to the white water the stores try to sell us;)

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