Half Pond Homestead

02/05/2024

We have 5 dozen eggs available if anyone needs eggs!

01/31/2024

Meatbird chicks arrived today! In 8-10 weeks they will be full sized and ready to process!

11/11/2023

Our lamb, potatoes, carrots, onions and rosemary from our land this year ✔️💯

07/15/2023

We had a successful morning at the poultry swap. We traded a few extra roosters for two Blue Swedish ducks!

07/01/2023

Gardens is coming along! Eternal battle with the weeds.

04/16/2023

Man we love spring. Designing and planting the new larger area while Tay repairs and replants last years garden. Using lessons learned and trying some new ideas.
30 peanuts, 40 potatoes, 200 corn, 25 ground cherry, beets, turnips, carrots, radish, swiss chard, spinach, and tomatoes down. It's a start. The black is going to be the paths and to help control weeds of course.

04/16/2023

Blue Bell and Onyx. Our newest homestead addition!

04/05/2023

The chickens last day in their old enclosure. We are moving them to a coop and run we built to keep them safer and add a garden 👨‍🌾🐓🐥

03/10/2023

We have 6 baby chicks available

03/03/2023

Starting another incubation cycle!

03/01/2023

Spotlight Animal of the month are our freshly hatched baby chicks! These 3 amigos and the rest of the crew will go to their new home on Thursday. We will start another cycle of eggs on Friday for hatching!

02/10/2023

02/02/2023

We enjoyed the snow this morning & our first green egg! Which means our baby chicks from last spring are now starting to lay!

01/30/2023

Our 3 newest ladies!

01/22/2023

Spotlight Animal of the month is Charley the Rooster. Charley is constantly running up to us to be picked up and loved on. He is a buff orpington and his golden feathers match his golden personality. He likes when you scratch his feathers and is the nicest rooster we've ever had. He will follow Kaiden around as he does the farm chores

01/14/2023

Our girls have been laying this winter after adding food scraps back into their daily diet!

01/05/2023

11/28/2022

Half Pond Homestead collaborated with the local SPCA to bring awareness to their Barn Cat Program. We have adopted several cats to help eliminate pests in our garden and give these cats a second chance at life. 🐈❤️

10/20/2022

Its a frosty morning but Momma Hen (should her name be Eve?) Is out with her two babies

10/18/2022

The baby chicks are out free ranging with momma today 🐥🐥

10/14/2022

Successful processing day for the cornish crosses! Great team work from Tay and Kaiden with a huge thanks to pops for watching the Littles!

10/13/2022

We have a momma hen who hatched a chick today! She was laying on 6 eggs, so well wait and see if anymore hatch!

08/12/2022

Turkey run with my main men!

08/10/2022

Our Cornish Crosses are here!

08/03/2022

Our Homestead is a family thing ❤

07/04/2022

What a weekend! We harvested a large portion of our garden, putting down new veggies in the empty locations. We also have QUAIL hatching and became the new home to two ducks in need.

07/01/2022

Carrot Harvest Day! We learned that we planted the seeds too close to each other for this batch, which led to some under developed and hard to get to carrots. But new carrot seeds will go down in there place now, as we space better and add some clay breaker in. Also- the carrot stems are edible! Kyle will be making PESTO with them tonight 🤤

06/27/2022

Nice harvest after returning from out of town with cukes, red potatoes, squash, onions, some different kinds or peps, swiss chard, and our first duck eggs! Replanting empty spots tomorrow! What do yall reccomend for planting this late?

Thanks Pops, for watching the homestead while we were gone!

06/16/2022

Another step tomorrow towards our goal. Thanks to a mutual friend, we will process 8 chickens and 30 Quail!

Never would have imagined. :)