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Four livestock guardian pups left out of Boone and Kiva. Working lines, exposed to cats, horses, cattle and goats. Pm fo...
01/22/2024

Four livestock guardian pups left out of Boone and Kiva. Working lines, exposed to cats, horses, cattle and goats. Pm for more info, description in captions.

Up potting hundreds of starts and very rapidly running out of room. It’s a good problem to have but our kitchen is overr...
05/03/2022

Up potting hundreds of starts and very rapidly running out of room. It’s a good problem to have but our kitchen is overrun and our growing racks overflow. The countdown is on for planting the warm weather crops outside, 4 weeks to be on the safe side. But I’m waiting an extra two weeks for my tomatoes because I don’t trust those sneaky late frosts

Bees are here! So happy to add these girls to our farm again! bees
04/06/2022

Bees are here! So happy to add these girls to our farm again!

bees

Grateful for moisture.But can it be sunny and warm with all the green things growing yet? Mother Nature is in her bipola...
03/29/2022

Grateful for moisture.

But can it be sunny and warm with all the green things growing yet? Mother Nature is in her bipolar season right now.

Beehives are under construction, because our bees are due in the beginning of April.We like top bar because while we get...
03/28/2022

Beehives are under construction, because our bees are due in the beginning of April.

We like top bar because while we get less honey, we get more wax, there’s less risk of varroa more infestation due to smaller brood cell formation, it’s closer to how bees would live in nature, and allows them to build comb how they want vs constrained to a frame, and is easier to over winter.

We haven’t had bees for 9 years now since bees aren’t native or found naturally in Alaska and most don’t survive winter, so we are SO excited to have hives again!

Eggs are available again! The girls are in full production and we are in eggs up to our eyeballs.5 a dozen, registered A...
03/18/2022

Eggs are available again! The girls are in full production and we are in eggs up to our eyeballs.

5 a dozen, registered AZ producer. Free-range, pastured eggs gathered daily by little hands.

Delivery available weekday afternoons starting 3/21 in the Concho area, or pickup in Concho or on the farm.

Return your carton for .50 off your next order

Repurposing some of the galvanized pipe we just pulled and replaced from our well as our field crop garden fencing. I lo...
03/17/2022

Repurposing some of the galvanized pipe we just pulled and replaced from our well as our field crop garden fencing.

I love free range chickens. Don’t love them so much in my garden.

Friendly PSA from a firefighter homesteader: always have water and a spotter while welding outside near grass and vegetation. Peter just fought the first 2022 AZ wildfire over 1000 acres two weeks ago that was started by welding in Apache county. It’s hard to catch it wearing a helmet.

Good results require the right tools to get the job done, and a good grain mill is a must have homestead tool if you mak...
03/17/2022

Good results require the right tools to get the job done, and a good grain mill is a must have homestead tool if you make your own breads, cereals and pastas.

Absolutely thrilled with my Harvest Mill. It outperforms all the other mills I’ve owned in the past, is quieter, takes less space, takes less power (a big plus being off grid) and is absolutely beautiful while doing it.

No hauling this piece in and out of cabinets for me. She gets to live on the countertop and make our daily sandwich breads and crackly sourdoughs.

Orchard is in, at least our first order of trees. We will probably add a few more trees every year until we get to where...
03/09/2022

Orchard is in, at least our first order of trees. We will probably add a few more trees every year until we get to where we want it, but we are very happy with this start!
 

Day three of the ! My favorite farm tool!This was a hard one for me. I LOVe my milking machine, it keeps my milk so cl...
03/04/2022

Day three of the ! My favorite farm tool!

This was a hard one for me. I LOVe my milking machine, it keeps my milk so clean and milks does quickly and saves my poor cramping hands. Definitely was in the running.

Then there’s the handy dandy headlamp, which has saved my butt multiple times on late night barn trips, extra feedings at -40 degrees, generator repairs in the frigid pitch black Alaskan winter.

Maybe it’s because it’s a new addition or maybe just because it has saved us DAYS of backbreaking labor so we can get our ground and pastures ready, the trees it cleared effortlessly or just that memory triggering mix of diesel and dust I love so much, but my current favorite tool on this farm is our tractor.

Every time we use it I’m so grateful it’s doing the heavy lifting that we used to do by hand for 12 years now 🤪 it’s going to make SUCH a difference.

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Today is March 1, day one of the !For those who don't know me, I'm Audrey! I grew up chasing cows, climbing through ba...
03/02/2022

Today is March 1, day one of the !

For those who don't know me, I'm Audrey! I grew up chasing cows, climbing through barbed wire and scaling haystacks most summers on my grandparent's ranch.

My husband and I made the big move to rural living when our first son was born 13 years ago and haven't ever looked back. We wanted a quiet, sustainable, self sufficient lifestyle. We had a dream and we chased it.

It's been a bumpy road.

From Utah, to Georgia, to Utah, then the Alaskan bush and finally now settled off grid in Northern AZ. We've been here two years, going into our third season on this land.

I've hauled water by hand after chopping through several inches of ice, lived without refrigeration or plumbing for years, gave birth unassisted outside in the woods and chopped wood with babies on my back. So glad we have a fantastic off grid system now, but it was a great education and it has served me well.

I'm a homeschooling mama of 5, a midwife, an herbalist and a medical freedom advocate and fighter. I'm the main garden waterer, cheesemaker, graphic designer, marketing team, manure shoveler, food canner, egg collector, sales team and milker behind . My husband is a firefighter and is gone most of the summer, leaving me to hold down the fort that we built together in the spring. (So grateful he does most of the digging and planting and fixing and building of all the things. 😂)

We are working on market gardens and sales this year now that the vid closures on markets is abating, and I'm busy working on branding and licenses and registrations right now as we head into planting season.

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Snowflake, AZ
85937

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(928) 551-3968

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