The Fair Acre

04/23/2025

Meet Pink

We call her sweetheart. She has a personality that melts hearts. She is a middle of the pack puppy. Her spirit is playful, her vibe is sweet and her spotted nose sets her apart from the rest.

Pink will be a loyal protector and companion on her future farm.

04/22/2025

7 days if puppies

Meet Green AKA The Tank

He’s massive. Twice the size of the other pups. He’s the least s***ky in the group. You’ll find him laying around letting out a sigh here and there.

He’s going to be a giant pasture ornament when he finds his new farm. He’s not a barker, sits and watches with short spurts of play. He’ll be the dog that doesn’t need to bark, his size will say it all.

04/21/2025

7 days of puppies

Hello Mellow Yellow

She is the calm, collected, sweet Kangal pup in the group. She is patient at feeding time, gentle in play, and the observer. She waits to be greeted when I come out in the morning. She will make a great security camera on her forever farm.

04/12/2025

Farm Cart Menu 4/11-4/13

•Rainbow eggs: duck & chicken, organic, soy & corn free, free range

•Freeze Dried Candy: starburst, caramel apple pops, bit-o-honey

•Farm Granola: gluten free, organic
•Sucanat: unprocessed organic sugar

•A2A2 Freeze Dries Colostrum: immunity & health supplement

•Pink Grapefruit Marmalade Syrup: organic, great in iced tea

•Dehydrated Sourdough Starter: organic, 600 years old

•Plant Based Laundry Detergent: concentrated, good for the environment

04/06/2025

04/05/2025

Sometimes we come to a crossroads and we can choose to give up or we can choose to find the strength to keep going.

This little farm we have built over the last five years has saved my life and I refuse to let anyone take that away.

I pondered staying quiet and not sharing what happened this last month but if there is anything I’ve learned in recovery, it’s that when we share our struggles it takes the power it holds away.

We have ran our farm cart for 4 years, we’ve met amazing people and it’s been our way of sharing a little of what we do on the farm with our community.

Over the last month we’ve had a repeat offender break into our cash box. We decided adding a more secure safe was the solution and sadly all that did was make them return in the dark hours of the night and vandalize the cart past the point of further use. The cart has been at a stand still all week.

After processing all of the emotions that come with this sort of violation. I’ve decided that my dreams are bigger than their actions and the cart will continue.

We are prepping the new red cart and it will be back up and running Sunday 4/6/25

Your support is why we are able to do all that we do on this little piece of land. 🤎 Thank you, we appreciate you.

I will stock the cart Fri/Sat/Sun each week with hours being 9am-7pm

Sunday Restock:
Organic Free Range Eggs
Honey
Granola
Jam
Sucanat
Clean Laundry Soap
Freeze Dried Candy
600 Year Old Sourdough Starter
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Herdshare Information

03/14/2025

The farm life isn’t always glorious, we don’t leave the farm very often, we value things that many have forgot are important.

We value raw dairy over Disneyland,
farm raised meat meat over fancy cars,
homegrown organic produce over restaurants,
education at home over socializing at school,
Playing in the dirt over organized sports

I fully understand that we are going against the grain of modern society. I was born to do that, I am here to pave a different road to happiness, I don’t fit into the 📦 I was taught was acceptable.

The skills we are learning as a family will live with our children for a lifetime. They will grow up to teach their children the lost skills of love, health and self reliance.

We taught ourselves these skills in our 30s, adult life would have looked different for many of us millennials walking this path if the generation before us hadn’t lost them along the way.

We do what we do today to create a path forward for our children. 🤎

03/06/2025

The rainbow basket has always been the goal.

How did we make it happen?

We began with breeds available from local feed stores and began adding to the flock based on egg color.
We source some chicks from large online hatcheries where density of color isn’t the priority.
We source our dark browns from a local breeder in the Apple Hill area that breeds for standard of breed and dark egg color.
We hatch our own olive eggers to achieve different variations of green hues.

It’s been a fun project and we enjoy sharing them with our local community.

Every box comes with a little “laid with love” stamp on an egg and a lot of joy as you crack them open in your kitchen.

Support your local homesteaders and small farmers.

02/27/2025

As we inch closer to spring, little bits of life begin to spring up on the farm.

The food forest continues to mature and let me tell you, patience is a spiritual principle practiced hard core here. 5 years in the making and this is the first year we feel that we will harvest more than a few pieces of fruit off each tree.

The learning curve has been long. I’m sure that has something to do with my toxic trait— “just start and figure it out along the way”. In reality if we spent months or years “figuring it out on the internet” before taking action we’d probably be in this same spot today anyway.

Cheers to a FRUITFUL 2025! Whatever that looks like for you 🤎 For us it means literal fruit 😉

Drop a 🌳 if you are growing a food forest on your homestead or in your backyard!

02/10/2025

Diesel & Beez
Father & Daughter

We searched all over the United States to find Diesel. I flew to Georgia and back in a single day to bring him home. His s***k sparks joy on the farm everyday. What we didn’t know is that he would be a lover of babies. Baby cows, baby lambs and most of all- his baby.

Beez is his pup. She was the runt, born lifeless and brought back, found lifeless a second time and brought back again. She’s a miracle. She didn’t come without complication: the runt, bottle baby syndrome, malocclusion, possible hip issues. We are walking through all of her challenges with success so far.
A puppy 4/5 trainers told me was “a bad egg” and we should have “let nature take its course” is thriving. We didn’t feel good about placing her on a farm knowing all the challenges she faced so she found a home here with us.

The lesson I learned is— I can’t always listen to others. I have to listen to God and my intuition. We can defy all odds through faith perseverance.

*we posted a reel telling Beez story*

02/08/2025

Preserving what we grow and are gifted is important to us. The less I have to visit the grocery store, the better.

Simple ingredients, healthy family.

P.s. The farm cart is back open and fully stocked!

02/04/2025

We’ve been on TikTok for quite some time but we now utilize it as a fun, simple way to share in the moment clips from the farm.

Are you a TikToker? Give us a follow.

108 Followers, 19 Following, 941 Likes - Watch awesome short videos created by The Fair Acre

01/26/2025

The first babies born on the farm each year bring joy and excitement for the year ahead. We do not typically plan on welcoming babies this early in the year but Mother Nature is not our place of control. We are here to steward as She does her thing.

2025 marks the year of Greek Gods in our tradition of themed names. Meet Eros and Gaia, the figures of Love and Mother Earth. 🤎 🌎

12/26/2024

And just like that, we put another year in the books.
Thank you for sharing in the journey.
Happy Holidays 🤎

#2024

12/15/2024

I advocate for food freedom—
I believe the closer we are to our food the better—
I believe the small farmer is most important—
I believe we have the power to shift the food system—
I believe that shift is already happening—

What’s my contribution to these beliefs?

I grow food—
I raise animals—
I milk cows—

I share what we do here with our community 🤎

11/08/2024

Here on the farm we try to minimize waste.
How do we do that?

•canning our harvests and bulk buys
•freezing harvests and leftovers
•freeze drying harvests and extras
•feeding scrap produce to our chickens
•keeping a family pig or two to eat ALL the leftovers that would otherwise go to the trash.

Today we popped one of our last basil harvests into our . This will preserve the fresh basil flavor better than traditional drying as well as the color. We will use this all winter in soups, salads, pastas and sauces.

11/01/2024

Fuyu Persimmons

After the birds ate their share off if the young tree we have we harvest three, yes three, persimmons this week. Still, I am grateful for the food that we grew and the process we are walking through on this journey.

What do we do with persimmons?
With this variety we peel and slice them, eat them fresh. Sometimes we squeeze a little lime and sprinkle a bit of sea salt to spice them up. We also slice them thin and freeze dry them into crisp, light chips or dehydrate them into a chewy, crunchy chips.

Benefits of eating persimmons-
Vitamin A: 15% of the daily value (DV)
Vitamin C: 14% of the DV
Vitamin E: 8% of the DV
Vitamin K: 4% of the DV
Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine): 10% of the DV
Potassium: 6% of the DV
Copper: 21% of the DV
Manganese: 26% of the DV
Persimmons are also a good source of thiamin (B1), riboflavin (B2), folate, magnesium, and phosphorus.

Excellent source of powerful antioxidants, they are inflammatory, heart healthy, rich in fiber and support vision.

Persimmons seem to be a love it or hate it food. I’m on the live it list and wait for them to come into season every year.