G & J's Little Farm

05/01/2024

✨️Some little...bitty...cuties just hatched last night!! 💕 We are trying to increase our current flock after having some losses over the winter. We hope to be back to the in June🤞
In the meantime, we hope you all enjoy the Farmer's Market starting today!!!
4:30-6:30 at the bottom of Stroming Rd
Go get some local goodness!! 😊

04/26/2024

✨️Restocking at High Country Health Foods in Mariposa today! Also made a little add of these to the Etsy store. Loving your pets!! 🐈💕🐕
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03/20/2024

🌱Happy Spring Equinox!!! You know what that means....the girls are gonna start laying!!🎉 We had some losses over the winter, so we will be trying to increase the flock again this Spring. But we are hopeful, excited, and looking forward to a productive season!
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03/11/2024

🐝The plum tree is close to full bloom, so now we cross fingers that we don't get a freeze. It's happened a few times, often on our daughter's bday the 15th, there is a last snow before spring.
In the meantime, we enjoy hearing the buzz around the tree and watching the busy bees. ❤️

02/18/2024

⛅️Getting a little break in the rain and everyone is out enjoying it. The cats are chillin in the sun, the sheep are munching away, Sugar is investigating her tunnel she dug under that old fallen oak, while Mocha climbs around on top. Even the honeybees are here desperately trying to feed and hold on to the rosemary flowers, as the cold wind blows in the new storm for later today.
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02/16/2024

✨️For those that have been waiting on our handmade goods...go and check out Chocolate Soup in Mariposa. We just completely restocked them with Kid Quilts and Burp Cloths! ❤️

01/18/2024

👋Just wanted to introduce you to our Java chickens. This is our hen named Birchy (as in Birch tree, son named her). Our other hens pick on her so we needed to isolate her. Today she got to have some inside time with my son feeding her some bits of bread. She is so sweet and gentle. ❤️
Would you believe they all started laying in January, pretty awesome, this old time breed is known for laying year round once they get going.
No, we won't be selling their eggs (but maybe some chicks at some point). We are actually using the chickens in a chicken tractor in-between the orchard rows in an attempt to keep down the weeds and pests. Pics of that to come in the future. 😊

12/05/2023

✨️We are happy to announce one more layer to our Organic Certification....we are now officially certified by The Real Organic Project as well!!
These folks work hard to help Organic truly mean what you believe it to...they ensure that the animals we have at the farm are held to a healthy and happy standard. They also ensure healthy soils are giving life to healthy foods. Nothing but confirmed goodness here at
G & J's Little Farm. 😊🥚🌳

09/13/2023

🦋 Wow!! Feel SO lucky today, we had this beautiful Monarch butterfly visiting our rosemary bushes. This is a perfect reminder of why you DON'T use chemical pesticides or herbicides people. I KNOW that Monarch butterfly is still going to live after eating at our farm. 🧡🧡🧡

08/29/2023

👎Well, we will not be at the Mariposa Farmer's Market this week folks. Boo.👎

🗓 Most years we start to see a slow down in egg production at the end of August, but not a total shut down. ☹️ That storm must have really thrown their internal clocks off. Hoping this is not the end of the season, but it is possible.
We could force the laying by adding artificial lighting, but we like to let our animals take a break if and when they need to. Are we disappointed, yes, but that is what eating with the seasons and organically is all about. 💚

08/23/2023

Well, thanks a lot 🌀 Hilary. 👎☹️
Even though you were a weak storm when you got here, you still gave us significant cloud cover for a few days.
Well that made our Quail girls stop laying. Hopefully they are gonna get back to it now that we will be all clear and warming up again. 🤞
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07/30/2023

🤞Hoping to bring some of these and more to you all by the end of August. But keep your fingers crossed for us, we are at war with grasshoppers right now that are trying to eat all the fruit tree leaves. ☹️
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07/12/2023

👀 Somebody is chillin in the nice cool grass!! I don't blame her, it's about to get hot for real folks. 🥵
But never fear Jim will be there slinging some Quail eggs for your enjoyment today. 4:30-6:30 at the bottom of 6th street. 😁
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06/07/2023

06/06/2023

🌱The Quail have been really happy with the new grass and plants in their planter (they love to fling around the dirt).
🌥 But unfortunately with this cloud cover we are having lately, the girls haven't been laying eggs as much. So sadly, we will not be at the Mariposa Farmer's Market tomorrow. Hoping to see you all on the 14th!
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05/29/2023

💛 Some cutie baby quail to start off the week. 😊
We are trying to keep those babies hatching. 🤞
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05/16/2023

Black Locust Winter really happened here about a week and a half ago. We had really cool temps day and night right before our pink Black Locust trees bloomed. (Needed 🌞 for pics though)
Our white ones (last pic) always bloom later, so they don't count. 😉

🌟 Also, we won't be able to bring quail eggs to the Mariposa Farmer's Market this week do to some previous orders. We will see you all on the following Wednesday, May 24th. 😊

05/03/2023

✨️ See you there 4:30-6:30!!! 😁

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04/27/2023

🎉The wait is over!! Straight to .of.ramen with these yummies! 😋
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04/22/2023

Happy 🌎 Day everyone!

It is a beautiful sunny day in Mariposa and the bees are super busy today. We couldn't be more thankful for them. They have been coming to this Redbud tree for over twenty years! Hopefully as our orchard gets further along they will stop at those flowers too and pass the memories along to their relatives.

I 👀 one stop at an apple flower! Last clip! 😁

Hope everyone is out there trying to do something positive for this one space rock we call home.

04/20/2023

🍎🍐Our early Apples and most of the Pears are blooming!
Let's hope one of those spring flower winters from the previous post doesn't bring another frost with them.🤞

04/18/2023

🌸It's Redbud Winter!!!
Finally! Our tree is about a week and a half late compared to last year.

Next is Dogwood Winter, then Blackberry Winter, after that is Locust Winter, lastly is Snowball Winter, when snowballs/ hydrangeas bloom.

Why are they called "____ winters" you ask? Because oftentimes a cold snap happens to coincide in spring when these flowers bloom.

Like right now, when the Redbud is finally blooming and we have a high of 56 today, and are getting into the 30s at night.

We will show you some more of the "Spring Winter" flowers from the farm as they bloom. 😊

04/09/2023

🐣 Happy Easter everyone from
G & J's Little Farm and the orphan lambs Snicker (left) and Patch (right). ❤️
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04/06/2023

For those that started following because of our viral reel showing me planting flower bulbs with a drill... here are some of the results.😊⚘️🌷🌼🌞

03/25/2023

😴😴The orphan lambs after their morning feeding. ❤️
•They still fight the bottle in the beginning.
•I am starting to win the war against Scours.🙌
•SO glad we never got rid of the playpen after our kids outgrew it.

03/23/2023

💔Anyone who deals with livestock long enough knows there is just as many challenges as there are rewards.

Yesterday we lost this boy and his brother's mama. We didn't see any telltale signs of illness, and the lambs are already 7 days old now. So, honestly it is a bit strange, she was not a new mama, and never had issues before. But sometimes on a farm things just happen. 😔

Sadly, the next worse thing is trying to get young lambs to take a bottle, when they have already been successfully nursing on their mama. But I had read somewhere about bottle feeding lambs, "If you have a stubborn lamb, YOU have to be more stubborn."
I have been holding on to those words in my sleep deprived state.
He kicked me, pushed away and squirmed, and of course did the "chew the ni**le to try to fake you out that I am drinking" routine.
Then finally....❤️The best sound in the world!!!

03/20/2023

🎉We excitedly wait for the Spring Equinox every year here!!
🌞The increased sunlight is THE sign for the quail to start laying again.
🤞Here is to a happy and bountiful quail egg season.