Check out our latest blog post to make some garden-fresh salsa!

DIY Garden Salsa

Do your tomatoes always slow down production towards the end of summer? Start some cuttings now so you’ve got fresh growth for late summer/early fall production!

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When you start tomato seedlings in the spring it almost always feels like you have plenty, but once late frosts kill a few, bugs 🐛 eat a few more, your dog digs a few up and you accidentally step on some you now have a lot fewer than you started with. You will probably not notice a difference until the plants start producing and you now don’t have enough tomatoes to make salsa, but now it’s too late to start seedlings, the first day of fall is only a little more than a month away! In this blog

Usually, the problem on a farm is getting things to produce enough, but sometimes you can have the opposite problem. The main thing we have had too much of has been milk and squash. Read more

Have you ever wondered why it's better to have small portable pens and move your animals frequently, rather than having a couple big pens and move them infrequently? Find out here!

One often-overlooked aspect of alternative farming is the type of salt we use for our livestock. We buy Himalayan or sea salt for ourselves, but we never thought about giving it to our animals we just used the regular white salt block from the farm store for them.

 However, when we went to the Okie Homesteading Expo, there was a representative of the Redmond Salt Company there talking about why we shouldn't be using white salt for our animals. It totally made sense, so we ordered salt from their company and won't be going back to white salt! Read more

Snickers had twin girls today! Nigerian Goats | Long Creek Farm

We added three new nigerians to our herd this week, Snickers, Oatmeal, and Honey. They are all pregnant, but Honey won't be kidding for about 5 months. The other goats seem to be fine with them, sometimes we have trouble when we bring new goats home but they are getting along with these.

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