Gopher Holler Farms

04/13/2025

Had an important employee meeting this afternoon.

03/04/2025

03/02/2025

Spring is fast approaching and there seem to be so many projects that still need completed! Clearing trees and brush, transplanting trees, getting the pig pasture ready, building a new coop for the chickens! The list goes on and on.

02/15/2025

What is one to do when it's cold and snowy out? Catalog the seeds for this year's garden of course!

02/13/2025

There is nothing better on a cold, snowy evening then a bowl of good ole fashioned beef stew. What are you having for supper?

01/22/2025

It's a set back and listen to the blues night.

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01/10/2025

Frosty mornings like today make us grateful for those warm spring ones!

10/27/2024

Breathing new life into our charming old house. Just a little facelift. A lot of work but loving the results.

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....