The Far Out Farmstead

07/23/2026

Orchard grass alfalfa mix hay available for pickup off the field Friday or Saturday if it doesn't rain. $3 per bale.

07/14/2026

07/05/2026

Making some hay today 👍

07/04/2026

Happy 4th from these little firecrackers. 🎇

Bluey and Bingo have become so much part of the fam that I almost forgot to advertise them.

Toy Australian shepherds.

Bluey is male and bingo is female. As with our adult dogs, bluey is already a bit bigger than bingo. He has a bit heavier of a coat as well.

Both are naturally bobbed.

These dogs are herding instinct (some of ours more than others) and are an active breed. Ours are familiar with cows, chickens, and cats.

They're great companion dogs and patient with children (ours were raised alongside our kids).

They'll be somewhere between 15-20 lb full grown if they follow suit of their parents. Their parents are ASDR and APRI registered, these puppies will be sold unregistered.

Put a deposit down if you'd like to secure them to bring them home. They are ready for their new homes July 8th and will come dewormed and with their first round of shots.

06/28/2026

Anyone else struggle with this? 😅

06/15/2026

We've found that our buff orpingtons and Jersey giants are great setters. After a few more days once our other setting hens have hatched their babies, we'll go through and clean out the nests and start fresh so we can have eating eggs again.

06/13/2026

They're about a month old now! Follow our dog page The Far Out Farmstead Toy Aussies for more. 🤍

06/08/2026

Direct sowing our entire garden this year because NONE of our starts made it... lots of different reasons so I won't go into the whole novel pity party about it. 😂

Posting this for encouragement because we're also not getting the garden in as soon as we'd like, still only about half planted.

Dairy farming and young kids pretty much take up 27 hours a day so it's hard to find time for much of anything besides that.

Ok I'm still pity partying a little bit but hey at least we're trying!

As everything with AI on social media continues to get more fake, we're going to continue to get more real because honestly the cutesy homesteading and farm stuff you see on the internet is definitely not the whole picture -- at least not when you have young kids anyway 😂

We've got potatos, beans, pea, squash, and melons planted so far. We'll see how they do!

Don't know til ya try.

06/04/2026

Ever wonder what it's like to be a part of a herdshare program? To celebrate June Dairy Month, we are waiving the first month boarding fee so read on if you're curious about becoming a member.

Being a herdshare member at the Far Out Farmstead looks like receiving a half gallon, gallon or more of fresh milk (within 48 hours of milking) per week or bi-weekly if we can work it into the schedule. Every day, twice a day, our cows are cleaned, equipment sanitized, and then the cows are milked. The milk goes straight into our bulk tank for quick chilling and agitation to ensure the highest quality freshest tasting milk.

It looks like weekly milk pickups from our milk fridge where you'll see the cows grazing in the fields or standing up close near the water trough or there are a few meet up options (Wetmore and Chatham on Tuesdays, and Harvey and Trenary on Fridays.) We appreciate getting into interface with our shareholders on these days, and we do realize the commitment isn't for everyone.

Thankfully, we are human (not AI robots or a giant corporation where the only focus is profit) and we do work with our herdshare members as much as possible to get them their share of milk even when life happens and they miss a pickup. We have a system where the milk is available in the fridge for you at least a whole day after your designated pickup day and although it's not guaranteed, if you give us a good amount of notice, we can usually change your day every so often as needed. This system depends on us all being considerate of one another and we're so grateful to be blessed with a great group of shareholders.

This month only, it will be a $45 buy in fee to join us with the monthly $45 boarding fee waived. This is for a single share and gets you a gallon (2 half gallon glass mason jars) of milk per week. If you choose delivery, there is a $10 monthly fee associated with that as well.

Is it more expensive than store milk? For the most part yes. Are our cows raised differently than the cows are at multiple thousand cow dairy's where the majority of milk comes from? Absolutely yes. Is the nutrition content different than that you can from the store? 1000% yes! Don't believe us? Look into the vitamin, mineral, and enzyme content in pasteurized milk vs raw and thank us later. 😉

Send us a message to be apart of this back to the land movement where people a moving away from commercially produced food and moving closer to nature and the farmers that are growing high quality food rather than mass producing crops using fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides, etc.

Not everyone sees the value in getting your food as close to the source as possible. If you do, we hope you'll join us at the Far Out Farmstead. 🥛

05/30/2026

These two are just too much. 😍