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11/22/2024
🌿🍋 Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezey! 🍋🌿
My very first lemon from the Meyer lemon tree my parents gifted me has finally arrived! 🥹✨ If you’re a daily lemon water drinker like me, you know how exciting this moment is. 💛
Not only is it fresh, but it’s also organic—straight from my garden to my glass. 🌱🍹 Here’s to more lemons and a lot more homegrown goodness!
Who else loves lemons?
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07/27/2024
🌿 Project “Cover the House with Vines” is finally in progress! 🌿
I love wisteria but I know it can be controversial since it’s considered invasive in many areas. But don’t come at me, y’all! I bought this Chinese wisteria plant a few years ago and just now put up the trellis. Back then, I didn’t know there were American non-invasive varieties of wisteria, though I’ve heard they’re harder to find at nurseries. It’s crazy that nurseries even sell invasive plants, but they do. 🤷♀️
Don’t worry—if any escapes the garden, our goats will surely devour it. 🐐
07/27/2024
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07/14/2024
I made a trellis for the side of the house. 🏡 🔨
And it only took me like two months to decide on the pattern and then actually make the time to do it! 😅
Oh the joys of living with ADHD.
Then I went to hang it and there was a wasp nest in the wisteria vines that I made the trellis for.
07/04/2024
Every year I struggle to keep weeds out of my garden beds. I use mulch but weeds just grow right through it. Does that mean my mulch needs to be a lot thicker? Am I doing it wrong or does everyone struggle with weeds? 🌱
05/09/2024
Our Prickly Pear Cactus is blooming and I am in awe 💛 🌵
This flower opened so quickly, in a matter of just over an hour. 🤩
The bees are pretty happy too 🐝
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05/09/2024
My little lemon tree has baby lemons and also new blooms 🍋 🌳 🌸 And my satsuma tree is so covered in little satsumas it’s crazy, especially since it’s never produced very much in the past. 🍊 🌳 I’m excited for citrus season!
05/08/2024
✨Plant dreams.
Pull weeds.
And grow
A happy life. 🌿
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We are a micro farmstead in Calvary, GA and sanctuary to 60+ animals, run by myself, Autumn Skye, and my two animal loving, tree-hugging, home-schooled kids, Gavin (16) and Summer (12). The three of us share in the responsibility of caring for the animals, garden, and honeybees.
Our eclectic menagerie of rescue animals currently includes 8 pot bellied pigs, 30+ chickens, 3 ducks, 2 bunnies and 5 goats. We are home to 11 rescue cats who come and go from the house and barn as they please. We also have 5 dogs, a family of rainbow finches that we took in years ago, 1 mud turtle we took in, 1 gecko, 1 bearded dragon, a yellow bellied slider turtle that we saved and 4 fish that needed a new home, 2 of which bred; and we now have about 85 convict cichlids who need homes. And last but not least, Papaya the Parrot, a Catalina Macaw who rules the roost, literally. All of our animals are treated as family, get lots of free range
of our 10 acre field, come into the house often, are vaccinated and wormed regularly, get fresh fruits and veggies and always lots of LOVE.
We believe wholeheartedly in spaying and neutering; every single animal on our farm is fixed or will soon be fixed with the exception of the chickens, ducks, finches, parrot, fish and turtle. I assure you we'd have them fixed too if we could...especially the roosters and our very fertile fish LOL. We DO NOT use our animals for profit and every animal that comes here has a forever home or is adopted out to an approved forever home. Since 2015, we have found loving homes for 8 other rescue piggies and 5 rescue kittens.
Summer, Gavin and I are all passionate about animal rights and the environment! We live a humane, compassionate and eco-friendly lifestyle and are striving to improve it every single day. We are mostly vegan...in other words we eat eggs from our own very happy, healthy and spoiled, free-range chickens and enjoy some of the honey from our beehive. We do not consume meat and dairy or store bought eggs and honey. We do our best to not harm or contribute to the harming of other living beings. We recycle and compost absolutely everything possible, reuse anything we can, and regularly plant new trees on the farm. We have a small organic garden of culinary herbs, veggies, fruit and now medicinal herbs and our garden is expanding continuously and will soon be a permaculture farm. Our garden is home to a beehive and a large worm compost bin.
We believe that every animal deserves respect, compassion, love and LIFE. Our animal sanctuary is currently awaiting its non-profit status and is registered as a non-profit incorporation with the state of GA, Flying Pig Animal Sanctuary at Hippie Chick N Farm, Inc.
Our motto is Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rescue
“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make.”
~Jane Goodall
“When I look into the eyes of an animal I do not see an animal. I see a living being. I see a friend. I feel a soul.” ~ A.D. Williams
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
~Margaret Mead