Sunday, January 31, 2016

Small Scale Farming Adventures!

After hours, days, weeks and even years of searching for just the right house on just the right piece of land in just the right place, we finally purchased our small farm in June of 2015 in Columbia, TN!  We couldn't be more excited to find this beautiful home for our family close to I-65 with convenient access to Franklin and Nashville, TN.  After working in cooperation to raise poultry with Tap Root Farm in Franklin, TN for 2 years, we were happy to immediately start a batch of 100 meat chickens on our own land.  We happily processed that batch the end of October and Hubby started building the chicken coop for the layers.  The CSA is doing well and several families have signed up for monthly shares of the poultry and eggs we are already raising here.

We added a pair of Great Pyrenees puppies over the Summer and named these litter mates Samson and Delilah.  They are now 7 months old and getting huge!  They are becoming great livestock guardians and valued members of our family.  As the peaceful snow settled over our farm this month we started seedlings in the barn for the organic garden we will be planting this Spring.  Please join our journey and watch us learn and grow as we try to be good stewards of this wonderful land and share the benefits of the bounty our small scale family farm gives us!