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It's the end of an era at the farm as we bid goodbye to our flock matriarch, Raquel, the last of our original 5R Farm feathered ladies....

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...

We’ve had so much going on at the farm that the end of summer and fall just flew by this year! A big project that has been ongoing for...

It’s been a whirlwind of a summer with lots of time spent watering, watering, and more watering due to our record setting heat waves and...

I’ve been so busy with the garden, chickens and turkeys, and my hobby soap making business that I’ve had a hard time keeping up with the...

We have new turkey babies (which are called poults) at the farm, and they are so very adorable! For those of you unfamiliar with turkey...

Now that warmer spring days are finally here, I’ve been spending more time gardening which is one thing that I really miss in the winter....

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...

Spring is an exciting time at the farm for many reasons, pretty spring flowers in the yard, starting seeds in the greenhouse, the...

After months of the chickens spending most of their time hunkered down in their coops from the cold and the wind and the rain, they are...

I’ve said it many times before, because it’s true. Every time there’s a sad day at the farm, I turn around and there’s something to make...

My special needs rooster, Reuben, finally crossed over the rainbow bridge. Of course I knew this day was coming, I’ve known it for a...

This was our fourth year living at the farm full time, and every year it gets better and better. One of my favorite things about living...

I’m pretty sure that sweet Rosie’s days with us are numbered, and I am savoring every moment spent with her. Rosie is one of the founding...

Despite a few setbacks in the garden this year, we did have a pretty good harvest by the time late summer and fall rolled around. A few...

Lucky is one of the two chicken chicks that were hatched this spring along with the turkey poults (which is what baby turkeys are called)...

It’s been five months since the sweetest little turkey ever, Pumpkin Pie, came into my life. She is by far the friendliest turkey that...