Windstone Farms

06/07/2022

Register on the website (free for self-guided tours) to get the address and directions to the farm. While you're there, sign up for a guided tour or for a delicious pizza lunch from our wood fired pizza oven! www.windstonefarms.net

04/25/2022

If you've ever wanted to see the farm, our first Open House will be June 11, 2022! There will be 2 morning farm tours (9:30 and 11:00), a pizza lunch from our wood fired cob pizza oven and 2 afternoon tours (1:30 and 3:00). Tickets are for sale on our website:

Ever wonder what Permaculture looks like on a larger scale?  How to create a business based on the permaculture principals of Earth Care, People Care and Fair Share?  Do you just want to try wood fired pizza from a cob oven?  The Windstone Farm Open House is the event for you!

10/20/2021

The new pollinator and herb bed is taking shape! I am debating between calling it the arrowhead or the leaf. Thoughts?

10/04/2021

We successfully completed our second biochar burn with the help of the KU Permaculture class (although I didn't get any pics of them) and made a LOT of char! It is also chestnut season so I picked about 60 lbs of chestnuts on Sunday. Now I just have to find some good recipes to use the bounty!

10/03/2021

We repurchased a sink cutout from a friend's granite countertop project to be our front counter for the oven. It turned out just like we wanted it!

09/10/2021

The oven base rises again! Third time is the charm, we hope. The outside ring is traditional cob and the inside is glass bottles with pearlite/clay slip filler to form an insulating layer. Once this dries for some days, we can do the heat sink and oven floor.

08/31/2021

After 2 rounds of trying to go by feel from 10 years ago, we gave up and did test bricks to tell the right ratio of this soil to sand and Clay to get a good oven mix. Once these dry, we should be able to tell the ratio we need.

08/28/2021

We really hoped after doing every step of our first pizza oven twice that we could just do this one once. Not so much. Round 2 of building the pizza oven started today! The motto still holds...everything twice at least once!

08/21/2021

Success! In the small trench we managed to make about 25 gallons of char in 3 hours. We could have gone much longer but other matters must be attended to.

08/18/2021

This is a podcast interview I did in the spring of 2020 with Prairie Ramblings. It is a great introduction to what we do on the farm. I encourage you to listen to all the other interviews in this series too!

💥The first of many episodes of the Prairie Ramblings PodcastWe get an inside scoop of Windstone Farms, a permaculture farm North of Lawrence Kansas.Amber Le...