Sunset Acres Farm

11/09/2025

Oh it’s cold here this morning! A few days ago we got our first real snowfall, only 4 inches but that’s fine. This morning the temps really dropped.

08/30/2025

The Alaska State Fair is winding down this weekend.

Lany did an excellent job with her Saanen wether for FFA this year!
Born in February here, he weighs 136 pounds, official weight. Beautiful photo her mom shared with me.

I would love to support a dairy meat class for goats so that there would be both the Boers and the dairy classes seperately, not combined. I support 4-H and FFA!!!

07/28/2025

Tomatoes in a colander from the greenhouse, Tumbling Toms I started from seed in the house. Purple green beans, the seeds from Italy that I started early in the greenhouse. Cucumbers inn the greenhouse doing very well! Cauliflower and broccoli from the greenhouse are now done, both are growing well outdoors in the raised beds so we’ll be eating those soon. Cabbages and zucchini as well as some carrots are also part of our dinners.

07/19/2025

Larger unit than we have, which is a 10 bale accumulator and grappler setup, but it does eliminate the need for extra people to pick up and stack hay in the field. We usually start baling at 1 or 2 in the afternoon once the hay is dry enough from the morning dews that are prevalent here. Hard to get last minute helpers to stack hay on wagons at that time of day during the week.

07/14/2025

Yep!

07/13/2025

All the things on the farm, well, some of the things that keep us tremendously busy. The honey is in the jars, the veggies coming along nicely, the flowers are just lovely. Enjoy!

05/15/2025

Well, it’s great to have the vet out to check on the goats and do the CAE, CL, Johne’s blood draws for WADDL but even greater to have the test results come back all negative as usual! Thank you Dr Sabrieta Holland DVM for coming by.

Silveraurora Registered Dairy Goats since 2003, always negative.
Wasilla.

05/06/2025

These 4 beautiful registered Saanen doe kids are looking for new homes that want lots of milk. Sweet, bottle fed and in your face, their genetics are the best in the country (Tempo Passa/Des Ruhigestelle). Feel free to message us for more information.

“It costs as much to feed a poor milker as it does to feed a good milker.” I was taught this years ago and it still rings true.

Silveraurora Saanens, since 2009.

05/06/2025

Thank you Rachel Corliss-Schlabach and The Knotty Poplar fiber mill in Eagle River, AK for including us in your fiber provider list for the state, and your kind words. Rachel purchased lots of fleece from us to process and sell through her mill and I encourage you to visit her website to find out more!

Sunset Acres farm is a beautiful family owned, 102 acre farm in Wasilla, AK. They specialize in Shetland sheep, and have a large flock of fine fiber animals. They also use their sheep to train herding dogs for the AKC. These beautiful Shetlands are bred for fine fiber, and most have single coats, wh...

04/23/2025

The Shetland lambs are enjoying the zoomies!

03/29/2025

Lambs and registered Saanen Goat Kids!!!! Tomato and pepper seeds up and growing well. Life is crazy at this time of year… and next week the sheep shearer comes to shear 36 head of Shetland sheep, the post office will deliver 50 pullet chicks, and I will be sitting other front porch with an iced tea…..
Don’t believe the last part, that won’t happen until late October.

10/21/2024

Harvested the oats with the combine Thursday. On Saturday we put up square bales of beautiful oat straw too! Done for the year - yay!