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Earth Garden Farms

Small farm producing local meat, eggs, and wool products. SE2SE Provider

10/20/2025

It's getting green in here. So nom nom nom nom nom.

08/07/2025

New Zealand 🇳🇿 style shearing is when you follow a pattern to take off the wool and it comes off in one piece like peeling a potato.

It's taken me a while to learn this style of shearing, and I'm still not great at it. It's hard. It sucks. Idk why anyone would want to do it. EVERYONE should try it!! 🙃😄👹🤪

Seriously, there are schools that will teach you if you want a boot camp 💪

Why do it this way? It's quicker, it can be streamlined, and it allows for the EASY removal of JUNK wool: belly, neck, things that get 💩/ dirty/ fully of hay. Leg wool gets pulled out for other uses like coarser yarn for rugs. Fleeces are not uniform throughout, kinda like head v body hair in humans aren't the same. It also gets a closer shave, so a higher quality fleece and less second cuts.

And plus, watching people do this for a living or in competitions is really fun.

Professionals: 45 seconds
Me: 15min 😄

08/06/2025

We're still here! Skirting, sorting, loads, and loads of wool getting ready to be milled! It's a dirty job, but it does a body good.

Yarn is coming! I'm thinking DK, Bulky, maybe Lace weight for the , and a DK warp yarn for the Romney?

🌎Suggestions welcomed! 🧶

04/23/2025

From the Earth we are from; To the Earth we shall return. There is no Plan/et B.

Earth and Beast, thank you for providing for us.

We honor the lives of the animals we raise and consume, so we and others can go on living. We are grateful we get to live this way and share what we have with you.

I know my food and they know me. If you know me, then hopefully you know them too.

We are all connected.

Happy Earth Day 2025

04/14/2025

Hatching ain't easy but it sure is fun!

First Hatch Day 2025 was slightly rusty, but usually, I have a high success rate, and it does come back to you. Like when they hatch and you forgot you need chick feed and now have to run to the store, except it's Sunday and stores are closed so you drive an hour away. Yeah it's coming back now, just like riding a bike 😄

These should be some nice BCMs (black copper marans) and F2 Olive Eggers. For my nonfarmer folks- these are different breeds which determine the color of the egg, BCMs being the darkest russet brown.

If you need chicks and have eggs to hatch, I have a larger incubator and can help! If you'd like chicks, I may be able to help with that also. :) Local only, I can't ship chicks...Yet ☺️

04/13/2025

And the winner of the Lambeauty Pagent is.. Ms. Spotty Dotty Porterville USA 😍

So cute, we'll see if she holds her spots or if they will fade as I expect them too.

I love lamb smiles. I love everything about sheep. (Minus when the bust fences at 1am and I hear them out my bedroom window). But long ago, I went vegan, and had I stayed, I would have never know such earthly pleasures as smelling a baby sheep or lamb snuggles. I kinda want to share this delight with others IN PERSON not just an ig picture. Uh no, don't give me more ideas.. hmm🤔😊

I wish I had more space to set up something for passersby to hug a sheep. One day! For now, just pretend you're 6, and this is you. 🥰💛💚💙

03/26/2025

I'm already thirsty for more. It's easy to get down on yourself when everything hurts.

But it's a new day! Let's go! Whoo!!
Whose got sheep to shear?! Yeah!!
Winter is coming! Yarn balls arise!!

Ps
Somewhere I saw someone ask, does shearing hurt the sheep. Maybe a little if you nick them. But they still sleep at night without advil or tequila 😄

03/25/2025

About halfway done with shearing in 1 day, yay! This year's goals are to get them alll done before June and make my life just a wee bit easier before it's 10,000 degrees.

19 Shetland and Santa Cruz cross rams were sheared yesterday by yours truly, and while they were mostly all light-medium weights, they all had horns, so that was fun, but most awkward and sometimes painful.

EGF Rams before and after! ... aaaand I just remembered there's a Giant Horned Rambouillet Ram, and a couple more meaty cheesy boys out with the ewes left to do. 😩 It's okay, breathe.. we got this 💪. Halfway there, almost. Practically. Still. Yay. :/

03/22/2025

One person's wool trash is another person's garden treasure!

In January, I took years old wool and wool I left outside in the sun last year (*heh- don't shear in June) to get pelletized . They were awesome, and Utah is a great place to visit, and I highly recommend learning about how wool pellets work in the garden.

But if you wanna just chat about it, we will have them available tomorrow at the !

Look at all the wonders of !!

03/08/2025

After a Spring break, we will be at the tomorrow with Eggs, Chicken & Lamb!

The ladies are laying as spring is in the air. First come first serve. $8/doz.

No inflation or bird flu price spikes here. Just the usual coyote and poo-all-over-the-place problems. I probably should lock them up. But look how they sleep? Under the 🌟 stars aw...

Can we all agree that food security is important so small farms are too?

See you mañana! 8-11:30am

12/10/2024

Support Local! Okay but your local ecology & USFS too! Springville Station has a good amount of Christmas trees left for $10. 4th graders get them free and free passes for a year. Thinning the forests was traditionally done in this area by Yokut Tribes through cultural burnings. The lack of this type of forest management over time is one contributing factor to the megafires in CA so... bring in the yule tide and get some real green and natural fragrance in your dwellings if you can!

Address

33037 Success Valley Drive
Porterville, CA

Telephone

+16614710720

Website

http://www.earthgardenfarms.com/

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