Homesteaders

[Chicken girl 15]

Grats!!  When I first saw the picture before reading the line below it and thought,  "why is Kloppers showing a picture of horse apples?"


Then I realized what they were...

yup my first thought as well. Never pays to think , I'm usually wrong.

 

[duluthralphie]

Yeah the picture isn't great but you can see the sprout breaking ground in the one center pod

Yeppers,I can. Your gardening is way ahead of mine. I think I am just going to buy my plants. I don't really have a place to start them and I have chicks and eggs in everywhere I could.

 

[rancher hicks]

@OrganicFarmWife @Fuzzy Moto thank you both. I'm going to take your ideas and put them on the board for the family.

Perhaps you can google the names you'd like and decide on one that you DON'T find, so it's yours and yours alone.

 

[KlopKlop]

Yeppers,I can. Your gardening is way ahead of mine. I think I am just going to buy my plants. I don't really have a place to start them and I have chicks and eggs in everywhere I could.

If you are coming down to visit the wicked witch in early May you can get some of these tomatoes and peppers
What I don't plant will go to the farmers market starting 5/7

 

[rancher hicks]

Yeppers,I can. Your gardening is way ahead of mine. I think I am just going to buy my plants. I don't really have a place to start them and I have chicks and eggs in everywhere I could.

a card table in any sunny window will do. some card tables are rectangular. I have some fold up shelves I use. Watch CL for something to use.

FYI, these are cheap but not very good as they need monitoring or they get hot. I reckon the frame without the plastic indoors would be okay. Then you'd just pack it up till next year.

 

[rancher hicks]

I'm going to have some left over seeds so if someone wants to pm your address I'll stick them in the mail. St.Clair and Homestead tomatoes so far. I'm only starting about a dozen of each. Just a few seeds but hey they're free. I expect I'll be able to save seeds for next year.

Anyone have a variety they grow from their saved seeds?

 

[Serenashome]

We have a rediculous amount of black walnut trees and a family of crazy coy/dingo dogs running our hill. My dog is part dingo and part Sheppard and the coy girls out here like him. My kids work the farm right with us so it's a family thing. We will be going off grid , well 95% I have to keep my phone because I have to children with sever medical needs, probably within 10 years and going back in time . Not to save money but to save ourselves from getting lost in technology. We are a very average family and very boring as far as inspiration for a farm name goes.

Oh!! Maybe "hilltop family farm". We are at the highest point on our hill. We currently have chickens, both meat and egg, and a very large garden. We will be adding more as time goes, but for now it's small. We love growing things and raising animals and this is just the beginning of our homestead.Name ideas -

Name ideas:

(Family name here) Heritage Farm

Candlelight Acres

Symbol of a heart inside of a hand like a branding iron - Hands and Hearts farm

I'll stop with three I could throw these out all day.

 

[Chicken girl 15]

Yippie! !!! 3 good things today.
1) my eggs are going to be sold at the farm stand one town over from me!! Woohoo! ! That starts memorial day weekend.
2) I started my cool temp plants today, they are in the germination chamber now.
3) it's a beautiful day today!!

 

[KlopKlop]

Yippie! !!! 3 good things today.
1) my eggs are going to be sold at the farm stand one town over from me!! Woohoo! ! That starts memorial day weekend.
2) I started my cool temp plants today, they are in the germination chamber now.
3) it's a beautiful day today!!

What plants did you start? I have only started tomatoes peppers and eggplant (aka nightshade family) before

And congrats on the egg sales opportunity. We love selling at the farmers market

 

[rancher hicks]

Lets try this again.

I'd suggested Hedge Hog farm since hedge hogs are cute. In the U.K. they're a nuisance. A nice silouhette.

Or how about Moonglow farm ? or Evening Shade farm?