Field & Forest

01/04/2020

The use of pesticides has proven to affect the environment in a negative way. Many farmers are now returning to ancient environmentally friendly approaches concerning pest control. One method is known as the Biological Pest Control Method. This method involves the planting of flower strips that…

06/22/2019

Farm Friend Corrine here:
My spinach has NEVER, EVER, grown well in the past.
Every year I’ve tried and tried to grow spinach in the garden, and every year I’ve failed miserably. The spinach either never grew up enough, ended up bolting before any leaves came on if it did, or it would get disease. We eat a ton of spinach, so I decided to try again one last time to grow it in our garden.
Well...SUCCESS!!! I finally found a variety that grows well in this area, will not bolt, and is not prone to disease! And, I have spinach overflowing in the garden! Swipe to check out how big these leaves are! 🤗
I did plant the spinach seeds in the bed that is now partially shaded by the new chicken coop - at first I was mad that we stuck the coop in the garden and it was shading a couple of my beds, but they actually ended up being the perfect beds for cold crops; like spinach, lettuce, kale, ect!
thank you for offering these magical seeds! I will be ordering these from you every year now. 🙌 🍃 👩🏻‍🌾...

06/12/2019

Soooo many bubbles!!! .
I did a little experiment with my sourdough he other day. I made two separate batches of dough...one with added raw honey, and one without any sweetener as per usual. Swipe to see the huge difference it makes adding some kind of sugar to your dough! The little yeasties LOVE to feed on sugar, so the loaf really ‘blew’ up!!!
Such a fluffy loaf...honey is getting added to every batch from now on! 🙌...

06/05/2019

HOLY SUNFLOWER SEEDS!!! 🌻
Last fall I harvested all the sunflower tops from our crop before all the rodents and birds decided to help themselves to the seeds. I kept them in a paper bag in the garage (we have 2 barn cats that help control the rodent population, otherwise mice would have for sure gotten into the bag) to let them really dry out good.
This morning I removed all the seeds from their current home to get ready to spread over our field where we had run all our meat chickens in the tractors...should be prime ground for these babies to grow in what with all the amazing fertilizer left by the birds (aka chicken p**p).
I’m hoping I can create a giant sunflower field this year - it’s actually always been something I’ve dreamt about if we ever had land.
I’ll post the seed planting process and what I plan on doing to make it easy to get these guys sprouting...since there’s like a million seeds! 😂🤪 - thanks to my farm friend for some great suggestions on this! 🙌
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04/28/2019

Farm friend, Corrine here.
It was my first year planting tulips...80 bulbs in all. Let me tell ya...I will be planting hundreds more! Zero watering, and not much green thumb skill involved to produce beautiful tulips...all...day...long! I love spring blooms when the ‘April Showers’ bring all the rain!
🌹 🌺 🌸 ...

04/15/2019

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We’ve teamed up with some pretty awesome businesses for a super fun Easter basket giveaway!
One lucky winner will win everything below in an extra-large wire egg basket:
✘ Headwrap made using Organic/Fair-Trade fabric (fits babies-adults) perfect for gardening from
✘ Organic dehydrated sourdough starter (with recipes/instructions) PLUS $15 shop credit from
✘ Seed packets ready to sow in your garden from
✘ Custom printed (in your size) “mint-er is coming” sweatshirt PLUS $15 shop credit from
✘ Notecards of the beautifully photographed Pacific NW & a handcrafted Fair-Trade necklace from
✘ Un-scented/safe Easter soaps from .

T O E N T E R, simply...
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04/13/2019

Meet the new chick in town...a Lavender Orpington! We’ve named her “Lavi”, and she’s so beautiful! 😍
I’ve currently visited the feed store pretty much everyday to pick up new chicks I pre-ordered in...and I’m still waiting on 4 more. 🐣
We’ve got these girls inside the house so we can get FULLY attached and be able to handle/love on them every day (makes for friendly/easy to handle hens later on).
Also been working on decking out their little chick quarters...complete with a soothing lavender sachet to help calm them, a container full of dirt so they can practice their foraging and dust-bathing skills. Then, I still want to add a little mirror and a plastic tube they can crawl into = boredom busters.
Cheers to Spring and all the new babies! (Btw...still waiting on our new “kids” to arrive). 🐐 ...

04/10/2019

Our blog site is now LIVE!
‘Easter Eggers to Marans...Creating the Egg Rainbow’ (click the link in bio to read all about how to choose new pullet chicks to achieve the egg colors of the rainbow)!
Check out a few of our featured posts in honor of ‘Chick Day’ , including Becky’s post on ‘How to Raise Chickens for Meat on a Small Farm’!
Farm friend, and myself are so thrilled to share in with you all our exciting farming and homesteading adventures!
Be sure to follow along...something fun is coming up that you DO NOT want to miss!!! 🙌

04/10/2019

Good Morning! Becky here ❤

It's Chick Day here in the Pacific Northwest (at least at our local Burns Feed Store) and we wanted to share a couple of poultry related posts with you all. Follow along here for 2 posts detailing differences in raising chickens for meat vs eggs and why this is the best time of year to start such a project.

Last year was the 3-4th time trying and first SUCCESSFUL run of a full larder of Cornish Cross chickens. We used the popular Joel Salatin method to raise these birds on pasture and at a reduced cost for true farm to table.

The outcome was amazing. This year we are raising twice (actually 3 times) as many so that they last longer than 2 months in the freezer.

Take a peek at the blog below to see how we did it! If anybody is interested we can do some live video posts soon showing the process.

How to humanely raise poultry on your small farm.

04/01/2019

Sourdough English muffins were a success!!!
I will never buy store-bought english muffins again! I can’t believe how easy these were to make and how absolutely delicious they were! Once batch made 16 muffins and they’re pretty much almost all eaten up lol!
Anyone interested in purchasing one of our dehydrated sourdough starter will also get the recipe for these babies included!
Can ship anywhere - comment or message for details! 🙌

03/28/2019

Each year I try growing something new in the garden. Last year it was celery. I started celery seed in the green house and transplanted to a shady spot in the garden (Celery likes temps up to about 70 degrees, so a cool weather crop). The celery grew great and I had fresh celery into the month of December. This year I harvested what was left of the celery (Root) and transplanted to the new raised beds I built. I am amazed at how quickly the celery grew from root. This is a picture of the celery 2 weeks after transplanting the root. I suspect I will have celery soon and all summer / fall / early winter and of course , grown without dangerous pesticides.