Gopher Holler Farms

09/15/2024

A weekend of replacing windows and a little fall creativity and decorating on the homestead. Learning experiences all around!

07/06/2024

A new adventure beginning on the homestead calls for a new mailbox!

07/03/2024

07/03/2024

It's a little later than we wanted to harvest garlic, life just got in the way! A little over 100 heads of four different kinds of garlic this year!

06/26/2024

Why Gopher Holler for a name? It seems kind of strange doesn't it?

The name Gopher Holler came from a conversation on a trip to the homestead, between our family members.

In our region, there is a large population of pocket gophers, and every year, we find evidence of them around our property, hills of soil pushed to the surface from their tunnel digging and searching for roots to eat.

Our homestead is on the edge of a little town in the high plains of Kansas, surprisingly enough, that little town is in a valley created by a creek that runs through the area.

Gopher Valley was suggested by one of our sons, but didn't have the ring to it that we liked. We brainstormed other names for valleys and I realized that our time living in Kentucky was the answer. In the south, valleys are referred to as hollers. We combined the two, and Gopher Holler was born!

06/25/2024

New blog post out today!

https://www.gopherholler.com/post/crafting-a-school-house-into-a-school-home-part-1

06/25/2024

New blog post up today. Be sure to like and follow to receive notifications when new blog posts are available!

Our future home would have quite the story to tell if it could speak. Before being moved 9 miles onto our family's property, I don't know the exact date, but classes were held it in her until sometime in the 1930s, after which, students began attending school in Atwood. There was a period where she....

06/25/2024

Meme Monday begins!

06/13/2024

One more board and the eggmobile has a floor!

06/11/2024

It's garlic scape season in the Midwest!

06/05/2024

First blog post is up!

https://www.gopherholler.com/blog

06/05/2024

First blog post up today!

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06/04/2024

Work continues on the homestead!

05/28/2024

Removing a window, adding a door. Renovations to the 150 year old school house underway.

05/08/2024

Problem solving on one of the mowers tonight....

05/01/2024

The eggmobile running gear has a coat of fresh paint on it. Next up, wheels and replacement tires (far from new), then on to construction of the coop!

04/28/2024

The eggmobile conversion has begun!