Gnarly Bark Farm

Gnarly Bark Farm We are a small, veteran-owned, family-run farm committed to raising heritage breed livestock with integrity and purpose.
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Our mission is rooted in ethical and sustainable practices that honor tradition while providing high-quality, responsibly raised meat.

05/29/2026

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Our wooly mamas and their precious babies 🥹🤗💕.

Featured in this video:
🫐 Blueberry- our oldest and sweetest ewe, and her twins Yin and Yang.
👑 Lady BaaBaa- our big diva, her yearling ewe Patti LaBaaBaa, and her ram lamb Theodore (Teddy).
👻 Ghostface- Aggressive Strawberry’s daughter but surprisingly very sweet, and her ram lamb Marshmallow.
🐄 MooCow- Blueberry’s daughter with the coolest markings. She’s our shy girl and a young mama to an adorable little ewe lamb named Pearl.

This group of lambs is surprisingly big, but I guess that’s to be expected when their daddy is our big babydoll ram, Prince 😅.

Bear and Remi had their follow-up vet appointments today, and as it turns out, they put on another 10 lbs since their la...
05/28/2026

Bear and Remi had their follow-up vet appointments today, and as it turns out, they put on another 10 lbs since their last visit in January 😳.

Bear is now 163 lbs and Remi is 155 lbs. They’ll be 16 months old in June. Insane!

Bear has barely been eating because it’s so dang hot out, so I’m honestly shocked he put on weight at all. I’m even more shocked that they weighed more this time around because I could have sworn I brushed about 10 lbs of fur off of them each while they were blowing their winter coats 😅!

Also, please ignore how dirty they are, it’s been raining for a week straight and they prefer lying in the mud to lying in their nice clean shelters 😩.

Pics of the goodest boy and the goodest girl 💕.

05/28/2026

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I swear these rabbits do it on purpose 😩!

Tom found Mose lookin’ like his time had come, but nope, a quick dead check would suggest otherwise. Turns out, he was just reserving his energy for the extracurricular activities to follow 🤣.

Mose lives to see another day and father another litter 🙌🏼! Mose managed 2 fall-offs with Hilda, so we should have a litter of crème kits by the end of June 🤗!

05/27/2026

🐶 Bear vs lawn mower update:

Bear has quickly adapted to the hot wire and is finally coming around to NOT seeing the lawn mower or tractor as a threat 🙌🏼!!!!
Every time Tom has been out there doing work, I’ve bombarded Bear with treats and pets, and it looks like it’s starting to pay off! I figured, if I can just rewire his brain to associate the sound and experience of the mower with happy funny times instead of fear and pain, he’ll be good to go!

Mind you, it’s taken every ounce of my self-restraint (aka Tom telling me absolutely freaking not) to not just bring Bear inside and make him a house dog 😅. Nobody talks about how hard it is to go from a family dog (inside) to livestock guardian dogs that day-on/stay-on outside 😩. I guess I’ll just have to get a hamster or something to fill the void 🤷🏻‍♀️.

How crazy is it that these pics were taken about a week apart?! They grow up so fast 🥹. Saw a little bunny pile up and...
05/27/2026

How crazy is it that these pics were taken about a week apart?!

They grow up so fast 🥹.

Saw a little bunny pile up and what appeared to be a dead one while doing trays this morning, but what do ya know, little one in the back was just in the throes of a solid death nap 😅.

I know everybody is obsessed with the crèmes because how can you not be, but there’s just something about a little brown bunny 🤗🤎. Maybe it’s just me though because most of our rabbits are crèmes and damn near indistinguishable 🤣.

Today was less about the farm and more about the farmhouse 😅.When we bought this place, we knew it would need a lot of T...
05/26/2026

Today was less about the farm and more about the farmhouse 😅.

When we bought this place, we knew it would need a lot of TLC to become what we envisioned… and boy, do we have our work cut out for us 🤣! Thankfully, all the animals are settled where they need to be (for now), which means we can finally start making some real progress on the house.
We’re tackling the upstairs first since we have family coming soon and need enough space for everyone to sleep comfortably. Nothing like a deadline to kick productivity into high gear, am I right? 😅

Step one: rip out all the gross carpet so we can replace it with vinyl flooring.
Step two: patch the plethora of holes, nicks and dings left behind by the previous owners, and take down the jankety shelving in the closet since it’s barely holding on as is.
Then, we paint! I feel like people fall into two camps when it comes to painting — you either love it or hate it — and luckily, I love it! So I’ll be painting while Tom handles the patching and de-rigging of the closet shelving, and honestly, I think I got the better end of that deal 😉.

05/23/2026

Smiles on their faces, rain in their hair, and not a single care in the world ☺️🌧️.
These are the moments I hope they never forget — running wild, laughing loud, and growing up out here on the farm.
Boyhood looks a lot like this. 💙

05/21/2026

Hooray!!! The Barbados Blackbelly mamas have finally decided it’s safe to venture all the way down into the pasture after a month of eyeing it warily 🌱👀. We were gettin’ a little worried there that they’d never do it and we’d have to mow it all down ourselves, but fortunately for us, they figured it out 😅.

05/21/2026

It was a big day for our boy Boone yesterday!

We moved him in with the open ewes, and as you can see, he really gave it his best. Lots of tongue waggin’ and pee-sniffin’, a real creep show! Unfortunately for him, it wasn’t enough to woo these ladies, they’re a tough crowd. I don’t think the heat helped either, it was a real scorcher 🥵.

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