Dandelion Homestead

01/01/2026

Someone got a new halter! I wanted blue, but it was ten dollars more?? So he gets to rock purple.

Also. This dude is in a large purple miniature horse halter. It has to be on the biggest holes..what size comes next for when he inevitably wrecks this one? 😂

12/26/2025

He was SO tasty. We fed all those people. With my leftovers I made a double batch of knock off olive garden gnocchi soup (8 servings of which are frozen, Moo and I have been eating it twice a day to finish it off because it's amazing)...and I still have half of a gallon ziploc to use! He made SO many meals.

I roasted our 40lb (dressed) tom turkey for Christmas with extended family. It actually worked really well.

-At 350* and split completely in half, he cooked faster than a 20lb bird. I was worried he'd cook too slow and he ended up cooking too fast 😆

- once out of the oven, wrapped in a layer of tinfoil and all the rag towels, he stayed HOT for the entire day.

- we fed 7 adults and 5 picky kids. We sent a gallon+ of leftovers home with Dandelion Homestead , made another bag of misc bits for us AND wrapped a whole breast to slice later. Which is exactly the kind of leftovers I like.

-oh! And! I defrosted him in a cooler a la Alton Brown, and used a semi-milk brine inspired by SunStone Orchard & Rabbitry and he was juicy and tender and amazing. (Only 1 gallon of milk out of 10+ of brine tho. Nobodies got budget for that much milk lmao)

12/25/2025

These lucky Dandelion kids! Their Nana and Grandpa Naydine Mae Stump Owens and Boppa Ken Owens III gave them four wheelers and all the safety gear for Christmas!! They now have two four wheelers to share with their cousins! They are in LOVE!

12/25/2025

It amazes me how much these chickens eat. In the summer/spring/fall they eat maybe one "scoop" a day. In the winter it's more like 4. Or more. Good thing kids are really fantastic at wasting food, adding to their diet 😂

Here we have left over pizza, strawberries trying to go bad, an orange someone peeled and didn't eat, a cup or so of macaroni and cheese and some broccoli stems!

12/24/2025

Oooh. My. Goodness. Nature's Heritage Farm milk brined our turkey that we raised this year, and he turned out AMAZING. I totally hoarded leftovers from my kidd and turned him into knock off Olive Garden gnocchi soup! So. Freaking. GOOD.

We still have one of the girls in our freezer...might have to make more soup 😂

12/14/2025

I'm pretty sure Vulcan is a model in his spare time. He was side eyeing me for touching his girls (which finally includes ALL of them). I pulled out my phone and he totally posed. He's such a pretty man!

12/12/2025

It's 25 degrees, but Luke says it's delightful in the sunshine. He's out here half asleep eating hay 😍

12/09/2025

This. Donkey. She decided stepping into the barn is the absolute scariest thing she's ever thought of. We tried bribes. We tried coercion. We tried taps with a driving whip. After literal ages she finally was kite-able with Moon. She is such a monster 🤣

12/03/2025

It's 9pm. What am I doing? Running to the barn, because my brain absolutely INSISTS that I left a door unlatched. Did I? Turns out, absolutely not. But now I know for sure 🤣 (also, I'm cold. And it's surprisingly bright outside for 9pm in December!)

At least Nature's Heritage Farm can be positive that I go the extra mile to keep her critters safe 🤣🤣

12/01/2025

I'm pretty sure 3 eggs in one day counts as a winter miracle 🤣

11/27/2025

I love her and it is SO not fair that she hates people.

11/27/2025

Oh, Luke. I don't think he knows how not to be a problem...