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Barefoot Farm is a small family farm. This page is our journey from neglected rental property to thriving farm and eventually a farm stand with lots of goodies.

Along the way we will bring you laughs, an occasional face palm, fun pictures and adventures!

07/12/2025

Exciting days! Our first raspberries, blueberries and strawberries! Many of these plants are first year producers so they are more of a nibble garden this year but we are excited to see what they do in the future.

06/24/2025

The summer projects are in full swing! New skills loading as both kids are learning to use a chainsaw as we work through a 10acre parcel for grandma that needs to be thinned meaning trees less than 6” around are cut and removed to about 16’ apart to limit fire danger & increase forest health.

We got a VERY exciting delivery last week as well! Can’t wait to share once we get it setup! Any guesses?

The weather has been cool this week with a day or two of rain which slowed projects down but forced us to rest and rejuvenate!

06/09/2025

Pheew summer has come on strong this year! We went from iffy spring to hot summer weather in quick succession. What started as spring showers making the w**ds/grass grow but to soggy to mow turned into a safari quickly right about the time the w**d whacker & lawn mower both decided it would be a good time to not work🤦🏻‍♀️. Now that they are up and running and we are finally making headway on the garden! Been busy around here but have some exciting things coming to the farm this summer! Looking forward to bringing you along for the adventure.

05/30/2025

The garlic is going crazy & the onions got planted. Due to the unpredictable weather here in our area gardens typically don’t get planted until memorial day weekend at the earliest unfortunately I am behind on my garden but theses are my little wins

05/08/2025

May is my busiest month for my day job and the days run long.
This week has been a rough one. We lost a chick overnight Monday and found him as we prepared a chick order first thing Tuesday. We found another one that was struggling and set it up in its own hospital brooder and took off to work…Nat called about an hour later to say there had been a loud bang like a gunshot & our power went out…. Now all the chicks had to go into the small “hospital brooder” to the neighbors so they could stay warm until they got the power back. Apparently a hawk flew into our transformer and blew it. Sadly our second chick didn’t pull through.
After being away from the farm all day preparing for one of my largest work events of the year tomorrow I got a message from the kids that they found the runt of our remaining almost 8wk old piglets had died with no obvious signs of injury or illness I am in equal parts grateful and heartbroken for my kids. Unfortunately they have been the ones to discover most of our losses in the last few years and it doesn’t get easier. Quite frankly as much as my heart hurts with and for them I am grateful that loss is not something they quickly dismiss as just a part of this life. So this evening everyone is feeling a bit blue and although we all are aware that having livestock unfortunately means we will also at some point sadly have dead stock, we are also acknowledging that no matter how brief a life it is a loss when it is gone and healthy to acknowledge that loss of life and the emotions that come with that, and that losing 3 in 24hrs takes a toll and has us second guessing ourselves.

So although not every day has a happy ending it’s equally important to not forget those that end in quiet beauty.

05/03/2025

Yesterday was weaning day for these chunky monkeys! Tonight when I went to check on everyone during evening rounds I couldn’t stop laughing at the little pink girl on top who looked like she went with the flying leap approach 😆 and landed on her litter mates head!
We choose to do a slow approach to weaning to reduce stress on mom and babies. We created a separate but attached pen about 2 weeks ago where we put the babies food and water and got them comfortable in their own space but still able to freely move between pens and get to mom. Yesterday we closed the door between the two pens- although a few of them were getting so big they almost didn’t fit through the small door designed to let piglets move freely without allowing their sow into the space. They are still visible to one another but separate. 24hrs in and everyone is settling well. Some of the 🐷 will be heading to their new home this weekend.

04/22/2025

Apparently the girls have chosen their favorite nest box! Did you know that it is common for hens to have a favorite nest and a times will either sit on another hen already in “their spot” or stand and cause a scene until the other leaves. We collected another 5 🥚 between their favorite garden hiding spot and the other nest boxes. I am not a huge egg eater but truly enjoy the variety of green, blue, and brown egg colors we have including the pink/lavender egg in this picture.

04/18/2025

The pictures don’t do justice to both the deep moss and army greens nor the soft mint green shades, speckles and variations 🥹! Will have a dozen or so chicks available in an about 2 weeks. Did you know that hatch & fertility rates increase in your flock in the spring? Out of 36 eggs only 2 weren’t fertilized.

04/11/2025

We are currently sorting our hens to determine who lays what in our flock and we got this very cool 🥚 this morning. Blue on one side and green on the other 😍.

04/05/2025

Spring time means the official kick off of craziness around here. I work full time away from our little funny farm and April/May are utter chaos! But in between the craziness of life there have been some really sweet moments lately. We were able to share the excitement of hatching eggs and baby chicks with some of our favorite kiddos who have been loving on 8 little babies that hatched 🐣 and have been getting lots of socializing this spring break. Tonight I dropped off 7 young hens to a sweet shy little girl who is so excited for her chickens! We varied the age of girls we dropped off including a hen she met last fall when she was just a chick! the highlight might have been the hen laying her pink egg with white polka dots. We are heading into beautiful weather this weekend = time to get busy with those spring chores!

03/31/2025

This weeks critter of the week is Sir Winston Hamhill aka Winnie. Winnie is a purebred heritage breed pig known as a mulefoot as his feet are not split like a typical pig but resemble…..a mules. Although Winnie had the easy role in the healthy litter of piglets we are grateful for his mellow personality. He is partial to blondes, which no one in our household is, but my sister and blonde great nephew are big hits with him and he uses a whole different grunt for them. Those of us who actually feed and house him are acceptable with enough scratches and prompt dinners. Although he is respectful of fences if a gate doesn’t get fully latched he isn’t opposed to a neighborhood walk about. Thankfully with good scratches and a bucket of grain he is usually easily returned.

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