Kids by the Acre

05/10/2025

Is 25 Rhubarb plants too many? Nah. Currants flowering, asparagus is up. Springtime fun.

10/30/2021

Kids these days

01/03/2021

We finally have our own Nigerian dwarf Buck! Hopefully it’s not too late for him to breed the Doe’s this year. We also got a beautiful blue eyed male kid for future breeding.

12/02/2020

We haven’t been doing much with this site lately but that will hopefully change. Currently I’m a little strapped for time working from home, Social Work/ office and tech work (love it). We also work from home as Family Care Providers (more on that some day too).
We are raising our 5 kids on our 60 acre family homestead. We are a 4-season outdoor family. Just to give you an idea, we buy of our kids NYS lifetime hunting and fishing licenses for their first birthday. I highly recommend it.
Update: This year we raised 5 pigs, 5 Turkeys for meat. We butchered the birds ourselves. We have 15 chickens and 7 goats (4 Nigerians for milk an 3 alpines for meat?) to raise through this winter. We are just finishing up the old barn. In the spring we have a miniature Jersey Heifer calf ordered. We also keep honeybees (our first homestead animal 8 years ago). Firewood, gardening, camping, faith and outdoor adventure is the lifestyle we stride for. We are far from perfect but somehow it all works out. I took these pictures today when involved with something else but I almost missed it because of preoccupation. Our life is just like this moment, brief but important and meaningful. This moment happened during a dark rainstorm but for less than a minute this beautiful event happened. The end of the rainbow is on the spot Leeann and I were married 12 years ago. There’s a tipi frame there now.

11/22/2020

Lots of work done this weekend; poured a cement floor for the barn, poured an extra slab off the woodshed, future use will be disclosed at a later date. Prepping to butcher 4 turkeys before Thanksgiving. Put up lights today too.

10/26/2020

Turk is mentally prepping for the big day. One month to live.

10/17/2020

HELP needed to decide what flowers to plant in my yard. I want to create several perennial borders/patches! Easy to maintain! GO!

10/17/2020

3 puppies left with 3 appointments tomorrow. Also 3 people on a waiting list just in case. Thank you everyone for the interest!

10/15/2020

YAY! Another puppy has a forever home!!!!!

10/15/2020

10/15/2020

Just took some photos of our Labrador puppies! Sorry it took so long, we are overrun with kids, puppies, chickens, and goats! Takes all day it seems just to feed them!!! Puppies are ready on October 31st. Come trick-or-treat and pick up a bag of candy and your puppy! For pricing and more information please call 518-597-3853, ask for Leeann.

And share with your friends, the 31st is just around the corner!!!!

PS: Just a note the orange heart means the puppy already has a forever home!

09/24/2020

Preparing to build an M14- Belsaw.