The cold weather has arrived, and that can be stressful for your chicken flock and for us chicken keepers too. I remember my first winter...

As the year comes to a close, I continue to be thankful for the decision we made ten years ago to make the change to country life. This...

Fall is in the air, and all of the colorful, curvy and warty varieties of pumpkins are making an appearance as Halloween grows near. I...

It's inevitable, really. The longer you have chickens, the more of them you'll end up with. It all starts innocently enough. Just a...

After being cooped up for a year, I'm sure we were all anxious to make this a summer to remember. I spent a lot of time in the greenhouse...

Raising chickens is a heartwarming experience, that is until the first time you add new members to your flock and you realize they really...

I fall in love with the farm all over again at this time of year. The new life and promise of what is to come during the spring and...

In my 11 years of chicken keeping, I had never ordered chicks in the mail from a hatchery until this year. Most of the time I buy chicks...

It's the time of year when little pops of green are starting to appear in the flower beds, and it gets me anxious for all the good things...

I can't believe that Christmas is only a week away! It feels like the last month has absolutely flown by. Between working my non-farm...

Taking care of the farm is the best part of my day, but it's not the only thing I do all day. 5R Farm is a hobby farm, and it doesn't pay...

It feels like an understatement to say it's been an unusual summer. There were some fun things we had planned that just didn't happen. I...

Summer is here, and we are enjoying beautiful rainbow harvests and garden fresh meals. It's been good eating except for one thing - the...

It's an annual tradition I look forward to every year - waiting for a turkey hen to go broody in the spring so she can raise up a batch...

I've been wanting to hatch silkie chicks for a long time. I had my first silkie hen, Millie, for many years. She was constantly going...

It had been a while since we added a big group of chickens to the farm. In 2012, we moved the founding members of 5R Farm – Rhoda,...

Now that spring has finally arrived it's nice to be seeing more green than brown in the garden! My chive patch gets bigger each year, and...

One of the things on my to do list for 2020 was to start brewing kombucha. I stocked up on kombucha supplies and reading material for...