Dirt Work Farm

09/12/2024

Remember to take advantage of all the resources your local county extension office has to offer! Including soil testing!

09/08/2024

Sasha is definitely our cutest chicken lol

08/12/2024

Seedlings update

08/06/2024

The nuggets getting some daddy loves ❤️

08/06/2024

4 trips to the city pile of free mulch, 11 pickle buckets full each trip, so 220 gallons of mulch later and we have a beautiful pathway around the garden 💚 all for free! Always check and see what resources are available to you. Sometimes all it cost is sweat equity!

08/01/2024

Our year in a nutshell

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07/31/2024

Rebranding, repurposing, and renewing this page! To update everyone, we are working towards a business of helping the people in our community grow their own healthy food. I'm pursuing my horticulture degree to go with the years of gardening. experienceI fully believe that we are to a point in society where we are controlled by where our food comes from and that control is intentional. My goal when I finish my degree is to help others grow their own food as naturally, affordably, and sustainably as possible. We like to focus on the soil and work up from there to create a diverse ecosystem in our own backyard. Hence, the new name DIRT WORK FARM!

There is no such thing as a "green thumb" just thumbs. Anyone can use their thumb to grow their own food, and I want to help others understand how to do it.

07/31/2024

We are a little later than I'd like to be starting cool season veggies, but better late than never! We also want to try selling plant starts as a first step towards Dirt Work being fully operational 😁

06/26/2023

Well a deer has taken up to using part of my garden as her own Las Vegas buffet 😅😑 she ate all the beans and peas from my teepee, and has started on my cucumber leaves. At least I was able to make some pickles from the excess cukes before she got to them. We made a scarecrow, named him Carl, but she doesn't seem bothered by Carl lol.

06/05/2023

Today was a gorgeous friggin day 🌱🌻🐓🌻

06/04/2023

The goal for today is to start integrating Hermione and Voldermort into the big flock and out of the bantam coop. They've had a couple months of "look, but can't touch" time with the runs sharing a side with hardware cloth keeping them separated. We shall see how this goes lol 🤞🏻🤞🏻

06/04/2023

06/01/2023

I can't even with these sweet babies 🥰

05/22/2023

We renovated the growout pen into a bigger run with a "log cabin" coop for the bantams and Hermione and Voldermort. It is so nice having a bigger space we can fit inside lol

05/16/2023

These cute, fluffy little nuggets went to their new home yesterday! It was so neat hatching them out and seeing their unique traits from their parents as barnyard mixes. A few have 5 toes like their pappy. A few have feathered legs and feet. I did research and more research and more research and watched tons of videos about wing feather sexing. While I am by no means an expert lol, I'm pretty confident there are 2 roos and 7 girls in this batch of 9. I'm super stoked with those numbers!

05/16/2023

The garden is growing! The squash plants and growing too well honestly lol. There are so many squashes they look crowded in the plants. The tomato plants don't look very full or bushy, but they have a lot of blossoms and fruits so I think they're putting their energy into producing. I'm fine with that lol. I put up a half fence around the bean/pea teepee to help deter the deer, so the peas are getting a second chance at growth. The okra plants are growing better since we've had warmer temps. The volunteer pumpkin plants have grown so big they're stretching across the entire garden and even trying to come out of the fence around it. The potatoes should be ready to harvest in the next few weeks, as the plants are just starting to yellow and look like they'll wilt down soon. The pepper plants have gotten a little taller, still pretty short, but each one has several peppers on it. The herbs are growing slowly, but this is my first time with herbs and I'm kinda letting them just do their own thing.

05/13/2023

Y'ALL. ALL 9 EGGS IN THE INCUBATOR HATCHED! We have 9 super fluffy, chubby, healthy, adorable chirping babies ready to go to their new home on Monday! It is so neat seeing their unique qualities from the parents. Some with 5 toes like their salmon faverolle pappy. Some with feathered feet. As they get bigger, a few of them will have cute little mohawks like their legbar mama. These babies are what you get when the pappy is a salmon faverolle, and the mamas are a barred rock, a legbar, a black copper maran, and a ISA brown.

04/23/2023

All these veggie babies tell me I have pollinators doing their jobs and that the plants are loving the loving the hard work we put into the soil for the past year since adding chickens to our little farm. Whenever we cleaned out the chicken run we spread the old bedding onto the garden plot and then tilled it all in this spring. We have ventured into a more organic way of doing things, and we are loving every minute of it. All the hard work, seed starting, planting in ground and recycling materials for our chicken enclosures has saved us an immense amount of money. That was the goal. High yield on the lowest budget, $$ supplemented by planning and sweat equity. So far, so good 💚

04/19/2023

So far Lorelai has not been able to shake the new saddle off, and I must say she looks stunning! 😆 I'm not the best seamstress but I think I do well enough to make s**t for chickens lol

04/18/2023

I'm going to attempt to sew some better saddles for the hens this afternoon. Lorelai will not keep that quickly cut felt one on lol.

04/17/2023

If you aren't following my tiktok yet, go do the dang thang! 😁