Happy Hawks Homestead

01/01/2023

Happy New Year and a huge “Thank You” to all our amazing customers who have supported our small business over 2022! We were so blessed to accomplish some of our wild dreams this year and look forward to reaching more goals next year!

10/29/2022

Huge thank you to Pearson's Pumpkin Place for the pumpkins for our chickens! The girls enjoyed their treats today!! 🎃

If you haven’t already, check out this wonderful pumpkin patch close to Lincoln.

10/15/2022

Happy Friday!! Come see us Sunday from 11-3 at Waverly Tractor Supply to support local small businesses! We will have our fresh baked pumpkin and cucumber spice (better than zucchini) bread, monster cookies, jams, candied peppers, and of course Halloween and Christmas merch!

10/01/2022

Just harvested some of the last summer produce out of our garden! Bringing it out to Tractor Supply Company in Waverly tomorrow 11-3. Come see us and try a new variety of tomato or spicy pepper!! 🥵 We’ll have more jams again along with candied peppers.

09/18/2022

Come on over to Tractor Supply in Waverly to see us! Here until 3 today!

09/14/2022

We are so excited to be in Waverly at Tractor Supply this Sunday from 11-3 for Market Day! 😃 We will be bringing fresh garden produce, including sweet peppers, hot peppers, cherry tomatoes, slicing tomatoes, melons, beans, radishes, and cucumbers. We use organic practices in our garden and love to share the rare varieties that we grow. We will also have homemade jams, bread, and even some decorative corn stalks to help you get ready for fall. 🌾 If you are looking for a specific item send us a message, we’re happy to help. We will also be bringing shirts, bags, garden flags, towels, and more from our design business, Lovecraftartdesign. We hope to see you out there on Sunday! ☺️

08/18/2022

Harvest time is in full swing and we have lots of freshly picked produce! We are picking daily. Message if there is something you would like or if you have any questions! All of of our produce is grown with organic methods - No pesticides, herbicides, or fertilizers.

06/28/2022

~Today’s Harvest~

06/27/2022

Building our garden~ Winter & Spring 2022

06/14/2022

While turning over the compost we found a Northern Prairie Skink! Not something we were expecting, but very interesting to learn about.
Our mulberries started ripening which provided delicious treats for us and the chickens. We also harvested some of our peas and cabbage heads before the high heat expected today (107°) and throughout this next week.
We love this time of year getting to eat food from the garden and around the property. Tonight we tried a new dish and were able to use only homegrown foods for a delicious dinner that the boys devoured! It made my heart so full knowing exactly what was on our plate and seeing all our work, sweat, and long hours paying off.
We are getting closer to harvesting cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, carrots, beets, and beans! I can’t wait!

02/05/2022

Our next video looks at our suburban garden before we moved. This was recorded mid July, after we had seen and fallen in love with our homestead property and had started the process of selling the city home. Just a month later everything was harvested, canned, cleaned up, and we got our first backyard chicken egg!

Please check out the journey- https://youtu.be/nqmmSzMaYhA

Today we take a look at the city garden that started the homesteading dream for us! Corey was able to capture the crops we had during the summer of 2021, bef...

01/30/2022

01/30/2022

01/26/2022

It’s been cold & windy lately, but the girls are doing well and have started to pick up their egg laying.

We are finishing up our garden plans and will get a video this weekend to share our plans! We need to add more raised beds to fit new plant varieties we’ve found. Can’t wait to get everything started!

01/22/2022

We got our first video uploaded to youtube! (We recorded it back in August, but have been fighting with our internet to get it posted.) It's so nice to see the green trees and hear the beautiful summer sounds. Can't wait for Spring! https://youtu.be/9XQZj3tGzWc

This week we take a look at our new home in our first detailed 20 acres property tour of Happy Hawks Homestead. We look forward to hearing your ideas, sugges...

01/17/2022

It was another great day of exploring in the snow and following tracks- we found deer, mouse, rabbit, bird, coyote, and of course chicken prints! The corn is growing quite a bit inside the window; with a 90% germination rate! What a beautiful day at home.

01/11/2022

So thankful for the opportunity these girls provide me every morning to stop and appreciate the sky and the beautiful day waking up!

01/10/2022

This weekend went way too fast and busy as always! We were excited to come home Friday to the Meyer Lemon tree Corey had ordered for me. However, we found it not looking so good after the cold travels and after repotting, giving it some water, and sunlight it is still not looking well. Hopefully she can bounce out of it, if anyone can save her it's Corey! After all, he did germinate glass gem corn, in January, in 3 days. They've grown quite a bit in a week's time! 🌱

It was a nice weather reprieve for the chickens after this frigid week, but still a little chilly for our liking. 🥶 We spent time outside visualizing the garden, food forest, and berry patch. Corey also trimmed some of the tree line to create an arch into the prairie area behind the backyard. The boys were great helpers collecting all the limbs for their own shelter! The chickens loved us being home and getting to spend time outside as well.

We did spend quite a bit of time inside and I'm happy to share we got our *first draft* of the garden plans done and a calendar mapped out for seed starts indoors and out! We decided on using google sheets to lay out the new garden space after trying the Old farmer's almanac garden planner to get some beginning information. It worked better for our needs and allowed us to edit the row layout frequently. 😆

01/08/2022

What a beautiful Friday! The wind chill and temps today were warmer than the last three days and the girls were very appreciative! We had a wonderful sky and got a couple eggs before they frozen to bring in the house.