Hangs on the Homestead

Hangs on the Homestead We're a small family farm on 5 forested acres.

Our dream is to continue working on becoming good stewards of our land, restoring forest health through wildfire mitigation, fostering native plants & raising free range chickens with livestock guardian dogs.

Just checked back in on the ladybug eggs, 9 days after spotting the eggs on the underside of a narrowleaf milkweed leaf ...
06/03/2026

Just checked back in on the ladybug eggs, 9 days after spotting the eggs on the underside of a narrowleaf milkweed leaf and here they are! Newly hatched ladybug 🐞 larvae!
Ladybug larvae typically eat about 400 aphids in the three weeks before pupating. If aphids aren’t available, they will eat soft scale, whitefly pupa, thrips, and spider mites if no aphids are available. Alrighty, let’s get to it little guys!

These absolutely beautiful olive green eggs are laid by our Olive Egger chickens. These ladies are excellent layers (abo...
05/29/2026

These absolutely beautiful olive green eggs are laid by our Olive Egger chickens. These ladies are excellent layers (about one egg per day) and great foragers, the leaves won’t last a week where they free range. The picture doesn’t show it well but their black feathers have a gorgeous iridescent blue hue in the sunlight 🌞 The Olive Egger is not recognized by the American Poultry Association as a purebred, but it is a popular choice among homestead chicken keepers and enthusiasts!
🥚We have recently lowered our prices for meet-ups & deliveries!
🥚Free egg request option in our online store for those in need (scroll to customer reviews section at bottom)
🥚Prayer requests welcome at check out, we’d love to pray for whatever you may be going through❤️
We are CDFA registered egg handlers -11378. All proceeds are used solely for supporting our chickens & sustainable homestead practices including wildfire mitigation effort within our neighborhood’s Firewise community. Thanks in advance for your support!🥰
https://www.hangsonthehomestead.com/

Hello neighbors 👋 If you can at all, avoid driving up highway 88 right now or please slow down if you must travel that w...
05/25/2026

Hello neighbors 👋 If you can at all, avoid driving up highway 88 right now or please slow down if you must travel that way. (Apologies in advance for the sad photos)
The California native Tortoiseshell butterfly is migrating east across hwy 88 in large swarms at any given moment, especially between Bear River Reservoir & Tragedy Springs. Unfortunately, as we were driving the speed limit of 55 mph, the butterflies cannot survive the force of impact…
We were devastated when we unintentionally drove through a sudden swarm of these beautiful butterflies and immediately pulled over to save the ones that were still alive off our grill 🥺. For the remainder of the trip, driving 35 mph allowed the butterflies to avoid impact and just ride the wind. Please be mindful of the swarms, the adults of the first brood emerge in late May or early June and begin moving to higher elevations in search of food.🪻🌻

While observing the underside of showy milkweed leaves, I found these ladybug 🐞 eggs, which typically hatch within 3 to ...
05/24/2026

While observing the underside of showy milkweed leaves, I found these ladybug 🐞 eggs, which typically hatch within 3 to 10 days after being laid. Ladybugs usually lay their eggs near a food source🌱often targeting areas with high populations of aphids (such as milkweed, aphids love it) which are a primary food source for their larvae. I’ll continue to monitor these eggs and see if I can get a photo of the hatched larvae!

04/17/2026

Made a few changes with our chicken egg store here at Hangs on the Homestead!
🥚New lower prices for meet-ups & deliveries!
🥚Free egg request option in our online store for those in need (scroll to customer reviews section at bottom)
🥚Prayer requests welcome at check out, we’d love to pray for whatever you may be going through❤️
We are CDFA registered egg handlers -11378. All proceeds are used solely for supporting our chickens & sustainable homestead practices including wildfire mitigation effort within our neighborhood’s Firewise community. Thanks in advance for your support!🥰
https://www.hangsonthehomestead.com/

04/13/2026

Free-ranging works very well for our chickens. Our hens have access to forested, fenced acreage…under the close watch of our Livestock Guardian Dog team.
Today they are eagerly foraging the moist soil after three days of rain 🌧️
While we do supplement their diet with a non-GMO quality feed, plus herbs & garlic-infused water, most of their diet consists of the 🐛🪱🪲they forage for 12+ hours a day. Happy hens = yummy eggs😋
We are CDFA registered egg handlers -11378. All proceeds are used solely for supporting our chickens & sustainable homestead practices including wildfire mitigation effort within our neighborhood’s Firewise community. Thanks in advance for your support!🥰
https://www.hangsonthehomestead.com/

04/10/2026

The Pollinator🦋Habitat project with ARCD is moving forward again!
Monarch Joint Venture is a nonprofit organization that supports Monarch habitat and conservation. They did a survey of the existing plants🌱 & pollinating insects🐝. While we did not observe many pollinators due to the overcast 🌥️ weather, we were blessed to see a handful of native wildflowers blooming along with a ‘west coast lady’ butterfly & the common ‘two form bumblebee’!
Monarch Joint Venture will return at about the same time ⏰ & location next year after we have planted the California native plants to do another survey. We are hopeful that once the native plants become established, a variety of pollinators will come visit. Targeted species for this project include the:
• Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus)
• California Dog Face Butterfly (Zerene eurydice)
• Crotch’s Bumblebee (Bombus crotchii)
• Western Bumblebee (Bombus
occidentalis)
Feel free to follow us on our socials for more updates as we move forward. If you’d like to learn more about Monarch Joint Venture, please visit their website here:
https://monarchjointventure.org/about-us

03/20/2026

For a limited time we are offering a FREE fresh herb bundle with every online order! Forest fresh eggs have been added to the store, happy springtime shopping 🐝🌿🌻
https://www.hangsonthehomestead.com/

03/16/2026

“See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land.”
‭‭Song of Songs‬ ‭2‬:‭11‬-‭12‬ ‭
Spring🌻is definitely here & our girls are getting serious about laying eggs! We just added more eggs to our store, including some 2 month subscriptions! You can secure yours here: https://www.hangsonthehomestead.com/store-2

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