Turtle Island Homestead

06/18/2026

Tonight's Menu we'll be serving for our first Sunset Picnic market of the season @ Stoney Acres Farm in Canandaigua, NY from 4:30-8pm! Check out the flyer for more details.

Shout out to our amazing local farm partners for giving us the opportunity to share the abundance with our community!

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06/07/2026

We will be making some healthy sample bites to eat and herbal tea for this event! Come say hey and enjoy the wonderful Gary Farmer!

Gary Farmer Health & Wellness Talk & Indigenous Food Tastings
at the Rochester Museum & Science Center - June 9th, 6PM

Indigenous Community Members Strongly Encouraged to Attend!

Join us, as actor, musician, and advocate for advancing media representation, Gary Farmer (Cayuga) shares his inspiring health and healing journey grounded in Haudenosaunee traditional knowledge and culturally affirming foods, in conjunction with western medicine. Gary will speak about how prioritizing Indigenous knowledge informed his wellness journey and how cultural practices led him to improved health.

Hosted in partnership by the Friends of Ganondagan, the Indigenous Health Coalition of Common Ground Health, and Native American Community Services, and was made possible by the generous support of the Greater Rochester Health Foundation.

06/02/2026

We wanted to start sharing some simple low-tox recipes here and there that we use on our homestead! ✨️

We hope to encourage others to start limiting toxins in their homes, so that we can all lead healthy, happy lives. So much of what you find on the shelves at the grocery store have ingredients that are considered to be endocrine disruptors & carcinogens, especially those containing artifical fragrances, ingredients that have numbers in them, and ingredients that make you go, "hmm, how the heck do you pronounce that?!" 🤔

Making small changes in our every day lives can help to reduce this stress burden on our bodies. These changes can also reduce the burden of chemicals contaminating the Earth and can help shift the narrative for big corporations to start moving towards more natural ingredients in their products. 🌿

It takes a little extra time to make your own household products, but trust us when we say that it is worth it - for your body, for your wallet, for the planet. 🩵

05/17/2026

Our Midnight Majesty Maran hens never disappoint with these beautiful eggs! They're just about a year old now and are some of our most prolific layers. 😍

05/04/2026

Mid-Spring days have us swooning over the landscape! So much abundant life has come back to bless us all. We have been foraging and preserving field garlic, ramps, stinging nettle, purple deadnettle, dandelion, garlic mustard, cleavers, violets, and morel mushrooms. 🌿

Our favorite ways to preserve our harvests are by turning all our greens into pesto that we freeze and get to enjoy the mineral rich goodness all Winter long. We also do a lot of dehydrating of plants and mushrooms for future use and make lots of lovely herbal & mushroom salts that we use in dishes, as well as getting to share them through our catering business and selling them at markets! ❤️

And we have been making so much medicine to use and share! Last week we made:
Peppermint extract, lavender extract, vanilla extract, chamomile tincture, clove tincture, tulsi tincture, nettle root tincture, Love tincture (Kava Kava & Rose), Calm tincture (chamomile, passion flower, lavender, valerian root, kava kava, & ashwaghanda), & we double extracted our mushroom blends for our Fun-guy tincture (Lion's Mane, Reishi, Chaga, Turkey Tail. & Cordyceps) 🍄

The homestead life is so much about being able to be truly present in the moments with the natural world, with our plants, our animals, and ourselves, while also continually prepping to be nourished and well through the Winter. It's a beautiful balance and we are so grateful to have the opportunity to be stewards of the land & to be held so deeply by the Earth Mother & all she provides. 🌻

Stay tuned as we will have many of the medicines & culinary delights available for purchase in the coming months! 🐢

05/03/2026

Today's the day, we've got more babies just starting to make their way out of their shells. 🐣 Stay tuned for cuteness overload pictures once everyone has made their appearance. So excited to add these sweeties to our flock - Black Copper Marans, F1 Olive Eggers, Marsbars, Crested Cream Legbars, Welsummers, and Backcross OE! 😍