The Fair Acre, Vacaville, CA (2025)

06/28/2025

It’s not about saving money.
Truth is, in most cases—especially here in CA—growing your own food doesn’t save you money.

So why do we do it? Why do we share it with this community?

Health.

We’re on a journey to raise the healthiest kids we can in the world we live in.
A journey to live vibrantly and fully in our own bodies.
A journey to connect deeply with the animals we raise to nourish our family.
A journey to know every amendment, every seed, every inch of the soil our food grows in.

We call it a journey back to the land.

It was a radical shift from the life we used to live—and it changed everything. It healed our bodies, our family, and our home.

And now? I share it with you in hopes it stirs something.
Maybe it nudges you to support your local farmer.
Maybe it gives you the courage to start your own little homestead.
Either way, I hope it inspires you to reconnect with the basics that truly sustain life. 🤎

06/23/2025

It’s the air bubbles that make it taste so good.

06/19/2025

Diesel loves a good selfie for social media as much as he loves the farmer’s husband.

06/09/2025

Pink Lemonade Blueberries

You eat it expecting the color to play a part in the taste and it tastes like a delicious blue blueberry.

A fun addition to the berry bushes we have on the farm.

05/29/2025

A snapshot into our personal life—

Hello and welcome to The Fair Acre!

We are the Fair family 👋

My name is Shelly, the farmer.

The farmer’s husband, Randy, is a jack of trades but the master of one- plumbing.

We have 3 boys: our oldest is 15 and the twins are 8

We purchased a teeny tiny piece of land in the country side of our home town in 2020, just as the world was shutting down. We wanted to raise our kids closer to nature, climbing trees and playing with bugs.

What we didn’t know was that this little piece of land would transform into a full functioning homestead where we raise and grow most of our food.

We didn’t know the 🐇 🕳️ we were falling into or that it would forever transform our lives and beliefs.

We didn’t know we’d pull our children from the mainstream all together and bring them all home for their education. Our goal is to nourish and encourage them to believe they can and will do what ever they dream of.

So, welcome to our wild world of homesteading. You’ll watch us milk cows, raise sheep, pigs, chickens and what ever else floats through the farm to feed our family.

You’ll watch us tend to the little hillside orchard we have planted, grow in our ever evolving garden area, build structures, make and bake in the farmhouse, and love on our Turkish Kangal livestock guardian dogs.

We are forever grateful for the path God walked us down and we are here to share it with you. 🤎

05/29/2025

Diesel & Zambezi

Just a livestock guardian dog doing what he does best, protecting his animals.

We couldn’t do it without them and I tell all three this affirmation every morning when they greet me at the door.

05/19/2025

Thursday will be a bittersweet day.
The last pup heads home to her forever farm.

You get attached to the final one when she spends so much one on one time with you.

This was are final litter for Delta & Diesel

As much work as raising pups is and as stressful as homing them can be when you care where each one goes it also brings so much joy to the farm. Puppy energy is pure joy and love and that I will miss.

We were able to raise two healthy Kangal litters and find them all amazing farms to work on. For that I’m grateful 🤎

05/16/2025

It’s almost time to pull the garlic. One was leaning over so I decided to pull it up and see how we did.

It’s fair enough to say we killed it on or first year of garlic. I’ve got over 100 bulbs in the ground! Exciting!

What will we do with all this garlic?
•freeze dry a lot of it so it’s forever preserved
•cure it and use it fresh over the year
•offer a small bit of it in our farm cart

05/15/2025

There’s always something cooking in the kitchen. This week I shared my method for chocolate dipped strawberries on a reel.

If you’ve ever taken a bit of a store bought berry tonhave the chocolate crumble off, I have the solution for you.

The secret is in the double dipped berry and you can find it on the reels page for the farm. Thank me later when your friends and family can’t stop raving about the perfection 🍓

05/08/2025

The fruits of our labor—

Some things happen quickly: we purchase a cow in milk and instantly we reap the rewards and have fresh dairy.

Some things happen slowly: we have planted dozens of edible plants and fruit trees. We’ve been here 5 years and this will be the first year we get a substantial harvest from the fruit orchard.

These are mulberries and we are so excited to eat them. There is something special about raising kids out here. One of those key things is teaching them how to raise and grow their own food. Walking up the hillside and picking strawberries and mulberries and peaches along the way. It’s an experience that feeds the soul.

05/06/2025

Everything we do here, we do with our LGDs by our side.

We don’t run a large farm, it’s a small homestead and that means our dogs aren’t in with a specific herd all day. They know all of our animals and they keep all threats off the property for all the animals here.

They also serve as our companions and that’s controversial in the field of “LGD professionals” but what I can share from my experience is this—

Your working breed does their job instinctively but that can be heavily influenced by us humans and their surroundings. Our dogs are used to having A LOT of human contact and they still keep their stock safe. They love laying around watching me garden during the day, laying at my feet while I milk the cows or visiting with the many people that stop by the farm each day. They also love running the fence lines all night keeping everything and everyone secure. A Kangal CAN do both.

I can’t speak for other breeds but if you are looking for a dog that fits in on a homestead with a family and animals that need protection this breed is worth the look.

Diesel is looking at me holding these beets like he thinks I’m going to share. Sorry buddy, this is the whole harvest and it’s not even enough to feed the humans around here. Maybe next year.

05/04/2025

The Farm Cart is stocked 5/4/25

Granola is back in stock! Fresh from the oven this morning.

Organic Free Range Chicken Eggs- remember if you return one of our clean cartons you save $1 on the box price

Freeze Dried Colostrum- immunity & health supplement

Anti-Plague Tincture- immunity booster with antiviral and antibacterial properties

Sourdough Starter- dehydrated with instructions

Sucanat- organic, unprocessed dehydrated cane juice. A great replacement for sugar or brown sugar.

Grease dried candy is fully stocked!
Watermelon Taffy Puffs
Starburst
Skittles

Honey roasted mixed nut butter will go out this afternoon. ETA 1pm

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