A Kentucky Proud Homestead
A family growing produce, plant starts and flowers for market. Raising bees, chickens and the next generation of homesteaders.
Our Homestead
What We Do
We grow produce and plant starts featured at our local farmers market and at our homestead. Our plant starts are for vegetable growers and bee friendly flowers. When growing food we also look for ways to improve our soil potential, increase a diversity of micro-biome materials in the soil and not create waste or bring harm to our local environment.
We grow a variety of vegetables, flowers and herbs in our garden and grow boxes. Feeding ourselves and providing enough for the market requires a lot of usable space. Preserving all we do not use right away.
As part of promoting a sustainable and healthy ecosystem as we work to grow produce, we introduced bees. The bees are incredible workers that pollinate plants and produce amazing honey. As a result our produce is prolific and our harvest yield has increased.
For your information.
News Page
- Sustainable Animal Husbandry, Part 2In the last article, we talked about the common practice of whole stock culling, which is when the decision is made to harvest all livestock at the prime age for… Read more: Sustainable Animal Husbandry, Part 2
- Sustainable Animal Husbandry, Beyond the Pantry. Part 1It is very common amongst homesteaders, hobby farms, and larger animal farms to grow out meat and butcher as much as your freezer or pantry can hold for a season.… Read more: Sustainable Animal Husbandry, Beyond the Pantry. Part 1
- Augason Farms stops all production. Sign of the times?We recieved the news this week, much like many of you, that Augason Farms is shutting its production down for the next 90 days. If you are unfamiliar with Augason… Read more: Augason Farms stops all production. Sign of the times?
- Summer Fun! 2021
- What are your plans for the future?Click on the poll block above to edit it directly in this post. Add a question, and multiple answers and even change the styling of the block using the sidebar… Read more: What are your plans for the future?
“We love that we know someone local with honey”
We strive to provide for our community.
John
“The hens you sold us are wonderful”
We raise our animals with care and handle them so they are friendly and easy around new chicken owners.
Annette
“Very helpful folks that answered all my questions.”
We strive to treat every guest like a friend and give good advice and be a resource for information about homesteading.
Sarah
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