Smiling Dog Farm

07/14/2025

Please help, friends. Infor or prayers welcome. She's very loved. UPDATE: WILLOW CAME HOME! Walked out on the porch at 9:20 a.m. on Tuesday, 7/15, and she was standing in the horsemint next to the porch. She's unharmed, a little thinner, very dirty, and very hungry....❤❤❤❤❤

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07/14/2025

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08/25/2024

Friends, for only the second time, I'm going to make a political statement on this page. I've been hearing a lot about a plan to stop "price gouging" on food and groceries. I'm going to list a few facts of which I have personal knowledge. You can decide for yourselves if increased prices on food are because of "price gouging."

In 2020, I paid $4.50 per bale for straw for garden mulch. This year, it was $5.50.

In 2020, I paid $120 per 50 # bag of fish meal for fertilizer. This year, it was $200--for a 40 # bag.

In 2020, I paid $12.50 per yard for mushroom compost. This year, it was $20 per yard.

In 2020, plastic flat trays for plant starts were 80 cents. This year, they were $1.20.

In 2020, gasoline to get my products to the farmers market, to run our tractor, mowers, and equipment, was $1.85 per gallon. This year, it's $2.85.

I've tried to keep prices stable, because I know my customers, and I like most of them. I'm not trying to get rich off my farm. Heck, I'm not even trying to make a living entirely off my farm. But I've raised my prices, or decreased the amount sold for the same price--just like my vendors, and their vendors have.

Price controls are a SUPREMELY STUPID idea. If someone tells me I can't sell my product for what it costs to produce it, plus enough extra to pay me reasonably for the time I put into it, guess what I'll have to do? STOP PRODUCING IT. This isn't unique to me. I don't know anyone who keeps going to work every day if they don't get paid. I don't know anyone who keeps running a business just to lose money.

This is such an elementary idea, and price controls have caused shortages and rationing so many times--every time it's been tried, in fact-- that I feel 100% confident in saying this:

Anyone who proposes government price controls of necessary products is TRYING to deprive the public of those products. In the case of food, that's kind of a big problem.

Govern yourselves accordingly.

08/19/2024

Smiling Dog Farm will not be at the Neosho Farmers Market this week, due to other family commitments.

But the okra hasn't stopped, and we've got about 10 lbs of our Red Burgundy okra needing a home ($4/quart), along with a couple of lovely ripe cantaloupes to go with them ($4 each) Delivery to Neosho or Goodman areas. Please message the page if you'd like to get some for yourself!

06/15/2024

Poll: Take your best guess, in comments below, when one would have to start tomato seed, and then when you'd have to plant them out, in order to have ripe slicing tomatoes on June 15. I'll post the answer, from my own experience, tonight.

06/13/2024

I apologize in advance, farm friends. I don't use this page for political/controversial stuff. But I am today, because if you're a friend of the farm, you care about small agriculture and access to healthy food.

A state government (Oregon) has begun a new, unprecedented, overreach that, if it spreads, will spell the death of small farms like Smiling Dog Farm. It's ridiculous, and it has to be stopped.

Oregon has told farms that they cannot use groundwater (wells) for irrigation without buying water rights. For those of you who haven't lived in the West, water rights are VERY expensive. So huge ag can afford them, but someone growing produce for a farmers market most certainly could not.

So this completely arbitrary action is nothing more than an attempt to put small farmers out of business. Unless you want to be utterly dependent on big ag and big retail, keep your eyes out, friends. The war on food has begun.

As Oregon more actively enforces state rules around water usage, some farmers have learned that they’ve been operating illegally for years.

04/19/2024

World class mama, Pinta, one of our few remaining Ameraucana hens, has brought in a spring brood yet again. She's such a good teacher and a fierce protector of her little ones, even though the little brown one is probably the only one that is actually hers.

03/31/2024

My youngest, Bear, who was a fixture at our first couple seasons' markets, is going out on her own, with a new burger and breakfast stand at the Neosho Farmers Market this season. Her big opener will be at Street Food Saturday by Neosho Farmers Market, next week! Stop by and see us and try the Philly Cheesesteak Burger--it's Deeeelicious!

A love of cooking and a love of local food have combined in our new food stand, Bear Grills. We will be a regular feature at the Neosho Farmers Market for the 2024 season, offering handmade burgers created from Thogmartin Cattle Co. beef, Hatfield's ham and bacon, Smiling Dog Farm eggs and veggies, and fresh, homemade buns by Bear.

03/17/2024

The good news and the bad news from picking up my inputs for the garden this year. Good: The price per bag for fish meal was identical to last year. Bad: The bag has been made 20% smaller.

03/12/2024

The fluffy butts are still in overdrive! Eggs, anyone? $4 per dozen. I'll be delivering to Neosho on Tuesday, 3/12. Message with any requests.

02/26/2024

The winter freeloading chickens have put it on blast for the spring. Anybody need eggs? $4 per dozen

02/09/2024

It's not Valentine's Day without chocolate, so the candy equipment came out of storage at the farm. We're going to be setting up at the Nighthawk Gallery & Studio tomorrow, Saturday, February 10, from 3 to 7 p.m. as part of the Galentine's Event on the square in Historic Downtown Neosho. We'll be bringing Chocolate Cherry Cordials, handmade hazelnut truffles, white chocolate lemon cookie tarts, and some chocolate raspberry cookie sandwiches.

We're going to be fancy! Pennington Wines will be doing a tasting, and recommending wines to pair with our candies. Come down to the square to get your very own nibbles and sips, and score some points with your Valentine!