Hearts & Home Farm

11/03/2024

It’s an amazing natural dewormer!

Pumpkins! Squash! Gourds! Oh my!

It’s that time of year again. If you have any pumpkins, hay bales, etc. you are looking to get rid of, now or after October 31st, we would love to take them for you. Our animals love treats!

10/28/2024

New location to sell my products is in the works!

🎉 Our Big Announcement is Here 🎉
We signed the lease on our new brick-and-mortar storefront!
Keep an eye out for updates as we get the keys, settle in, & plan for our soft opening in November. We will be reviving our store Elduets Treasures of the World that we used to have in downtown Augusta & we will have a home for our activities. Don't worry, we will still be available for mobile events. 😊
Get ready to explore the world finding new treasures in a local store while enjoying educational adventures! 🪆

08/25/2024

That, but also somebody has to keep the animals alive. 😅😂

08/17/2024

My sweet girls aren’t so little anymore. Had some setbacks with bleeding, but hopefully get litters out of them this year or next.

07/06/2024

6/16/24-6/29/24 Round-Up
- Meet our new hen from our friends, Henny (previously Henwen)! She lays blue eggs.
- The cows love a fresh haybale.
On June 21st 20 chicks of various ages were delivered.
June 23rd
- The poults moved first from the brooders to the grow-out pens, then later to a transitional pen in the field coop.
- The sheep completed their first rotation of rotational grazing.
- The goslings & ducklings moved from the brooder to the grow-out pens.
- Unfortunately, presumably due to the 107-degree heat on June 26th, we lost young Ace.

07/06/2024

6/4/24-6/15/24 Round-Up
- All the baby birds are growing big. Unfortunately, some chicks were lost to a snake. Survivors are now in the garage until I can secure the brooders better.
- The Sheep are settling in nicely!
- There was some beautiful rainy weather this past week.
- We have pumpkins in the garden & baskets of harvested peas, beans, & cucumbers!
- Saved some tadpoles & one had legs & a tail.
- The poults have started flirting. I look to have 4 Toms & 2 hens.
- I got 6 guinea fowl on the 12th.
- The sheep moved from their quarantine in the barn to their 1st field rotational pen.

*Tadpole swimming & flirting poults in the comments.

06/24/2024

5/26/24-6/3/24 Round-Up
It's been super busy around her with all the new animals & everything else going on. I've gotten behind on posting, so watch out for several posts this week. 😅

Several surprises earlier this month! Someone gave us some chicks at an event Elduets Adventures & Events was at on 6/1 evening, which unfortunately needed a little TLC, but we were able to help. We don’t know their story, but after getting them home, putting them with the bantam chicks I have, under some heat, drinking from a waterer, & proper-sized feed they were a little perkier Sunday morning.

Surprise #2: The big Summer announcement I was so excited for. I was able to pick up my new Katahdin sheep from Goat Farm Road LLC on 6/2! They are a great dual-purpose breed with some great features. I didn’t know until recently they came in different colors. I got an 8-month black ram, 2 6-month white ewes, & 2 6-month red/brown ewes (1 looks to have some black spots.). I named the ram Abaa, the 2 white ewes: Albaa & Kyomi, & the 2 red/brown ewes: Crimson & Scarlette. (Yes, Abaa, & Albaa are plays on baa. 😂)

Thrilled to have added sheep. There are 2 types of sheep: hair sheep & wool sheep. Katahdin sheep are actually hair sheep. Both types of sheep have wool & hair fibers, but hair sheep don’t have to be sheared like wool sheep do.

In nature news 🌳: We had a soft-shelled turtle visitor 6/3 morning. We’re gonna keep an eye out for babies that may start popping out from the ground. 😂 Wild mama birds on the porch‘s babies are getting so big.

BONUS: I found a great new spot for my hammock behind the barn. Plus all the babies around here are growing up so much. 🥹🥲 Pretty sure there are at least 2 Tom (male) turkey poults. Ace is slowly looking less like a baby, but he is still cute

06/07/2024

Big things happening!

BIG NEWS IS COMING SOON!!!
Would you like to be a part of it?

You know and love what we do, and we are getting ready to do a whole lot more. We have plans for some major growth at Elduets Adventures and Events, and we are offering you, our friends and fans, the chance to get in on the adventure as member investors!

The minimum investment is just $20 – we want this to be available for everyone to participate with incredible benefits. Larger investments will offer more perks, but every level will be well worthwhile. Of course, we are looking for a few big investors to help make this leap, but every contribution helps, and we plan to make it really worth your while. Anyone under 18 must have a parent sign approval of joining.

If you are interested in having fun investing in a growing local family company, expanding our ability to support our community, schools, and other organizations, and would like to make money, as well as receive other benefits, doing it, SEND US A PM OR EMAIL for more information and watch for further updates.

05/26/2024

Weekly Round-Up
9 Bantam chicks on Monday & 6 Cotton Patch geese on Friday. The bantams have cute feathered feet. Cotton Patch geese are actually a critically endangered goose species & auto-sexing. I have 1-2 males & 4-5 females. Thanks to some help from 2 volunteers the future goat rotational pens are underway. All the t-posts are in & next week the fence will go up. The milk stand got put in Paloma’s stall, so we can start milking her soon. Mom (Karen Steudle) & I got the tack room fan fixed as well, so we don’t have feed mold. We also found how a mouse has been getting in & hopefully once we fix that, we won’t have issues with that anymore. Wild mama bird’s babies hatched & the grow-out chicks moved to their upgrade in the field.

Bantam chicks: Tractor Supply Co.
Cotton Patch Goslings: Sean P. Wright

Also keep an eye out tomorrow for a big announcement with Elduets Adventures & Events!

05/19/2024

05/16/2024

Weekly Round-Up
Time flies & I realized it has been about a month since the last Weekly Round-Up. 😅 Between travel, weather, & work I haven't had the time/energy to get many projects done. I was able to get some minor project prep/fixes done though & lots of exciting new animals! The list of new animals is below. We are also expecting babies from our LaMancha nannies/does Lily & Paloma in the coming week. New Holland Lop babies born about 3 weeks ago as well. 2 spotted (male I think, but need to confirm again) will be available in 3-5 weeks.

- 6 poults (baby turkeys)-2 Black Swedish (black with white) & 4 Narragansett (striped) from Rebecca Holley Rentschler
- about 30 barnyard mix chicks from
- 6 Muscovy ducklings from MarcandJenny Alexander
- 2 Call ducklings named Button (female?) & Kernel (male?) from Hoosier-Magnolia Farms
- Satin Showgirl rooster named Santino from
- Silkie rooster named Rookie (said Roo-kee) from

We've had an adult turkey hen for years, but looking forward to expanding the flock. I'm down to 1 Muscovy hen, so I needed to get some more. I'm so excited to get into Call Ducks! They are like the bantam version of ducks.

Meet our new farm dog supervisor, Juniper! Asa & I adopted her 3.5 weeks ago. We are also watching a mama bird (I think a wren.) who built her nest on our little front porch with 5-6 eggs.

Hopefully, more projects will get done in the upcoming weeks!

*Videos of turkey poult noises & Juniper playing with Sunshine in the comments.

05/05/2024

Always upcycling, reusing, repurposing, etc.!

04/15/2024

So much going on around here! 😍

11/05/2023

Happy belated birthday, Silvey! This cutie girl is 1 yr old as of October 1st. It was such a pretty day to take some pictures & be productive around the farm.

01/17/2023

Got some amazing pics of these cuties this morning! 😍😍😍 So glad I decided on this breed & that I finally found my own. 🥹🥹🥹

Arlo & Alice are 5 yrs old. Silvey is 3-months old, born October 1st, 2022.

01/17/2023

I finally got Scottish Highlands!! 😍😍 Meet red bull Arlo, mama Alice, & baby girl Silvey! So excited that they moooved to our property. (Yes, I did make that pun. 😅😂)

01/12/2023

Over the next few months, I am going to be working to add a website, update information, & post regularly. Please bear with me as I go through this process! 😊

01/03/2023

Took Bentley my new farm cat to the vet today. Clean bill of health! Vet guessed about 10 months old. He showed up as a stray about a month ago. Sweetest boy!! 🐈