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...

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...

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...

Now more than ever I am grateful for the space to grow a large garden and for the skills to preserve our harvest to provide greater food...

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...

Some days it feels like spring is right around the corner. Daffodils are popping up out of the ground, and on the occasional sunny day...

I'm not one for New Years resolutions, but one New Years tradition that I do enjoy is looking back at my photos from the year and...

As 2019 comes to a close, I can't help but reflect on how fortunate I am. As I do my rounds during the peaceful mornings to bring out...

It was a bit of an unusual year in the garden, filled with trials and tribulations, but in the end it was a good year with plenty of...

It was six years ago that we started beekeeping and welcomed our first honeybees to the farm. After the first hive was successfully...

Oh winter, I’ll be glad to bid this one goodbye. It started out as a fairly uneventful winter, busy with work and the holidays, but still...

Ahhh spring, it’s finally here! Although we are still having lots of cool, rainy days, there are plenty of things to be excited about at...

It’s been a few months since I last wrote about the bees, and since then we’ve had a very soggy cold start to the spring. I had been...

It’s been a fabulous summer in the garden this year, thanks to an early spring and record setting warm temperatures this summer. We had...