Edelweiss Homestead

04/13/2023

🌱🌿4 Split Splash/Lavender/& Black English Orpingtons 🍃🍀

UFD Pickup in Piedmont, 29673

04/07/2023

Future goals! We just started getting into edible flowers over here. :) 🌸

Very nice Focaccia bread art 🙂

Have you all seen Returntonow.net ?

04/05/2023

SOLD
🌸The last of our easter ducklings looking for their forever home. 🌼🐣

Jumbo lines Pekin.

A very fast growing and large breed.
Straight run, PPU Piedmont.

04/03/2023

🐰~ Natural Egg Dye Ingredients ~🐰
💙Bluish-Gray: Mix 1 cup frozen blueberries with 1 cup water, bring to room temperature, and remove blueberries.
💙Blue: Cut 1/4 head of red cabbage into chunks and add to 4 cups boiling water. Stir in 2 Tbsp. vinegar. Let cool to room temperature and remove cabbage with a slotted spoon.
💚Jade Green: Peel the skin from 6 red onions and simmer in 2 cups water for 15 minutes; strain. Add 3 tsp. white vinegar.
💚Faint Green-Yellow: Peel the skin from 6 yellow apples. Simmer in 1-1/2 cups water for 20 minutes; strain. Add 2 tsp. white vinegar. Simmer 4 oz. chopped fennel tops in 1-1/2 cups of water for 20 minutes; strain. Add 2 tsp. white vinegar.
🧡Orange: Take the skin of 6 yellow onions and simmer in 2 cups water for 15 minutes; strain. Add 3 tsp. white vinegar.
❤️Faint Red-Orange: Stir 2 Tbsp. paprika into 1 cup boiling water; add 2 tsp. white vinegar.
💛Rich yellow: Simmer 4 oz. chopped carrot tops in 1-1/2 cups water for 15 minutes; strain. Add 2 tsp. white vinegar.
💛Mustard-yellow: Stir 2 tsp. turmeric into 1 cup boiling water; add 2 tsp. white vinegar.
🤍Various shades: Steep 4 bags of chamomile or green tea in 1 cup boiling water for 5 minutes.
💛Pale yellow: Chop 4 oz. goldenrod and simmer in 2 cups water for 20 minutes; strain. Add 2 tsp. white vinegar.
💛Faint yellow: Simmer the peels of 6 oranges in 1-1/2 cups water for 20 minutes; strain. Add 2 tsp. vinegar.
🤎Brown-Gold: Simmer 2 Tbsp. dill seed in 1 cup water for 15 minutes; strain. Add 2 tsp. white vinegar.
🤎Brown: Add 1 tablespoon vinegar to 1 cup strong coffee.
💖Faint pink: Chop 4 oz. amaranth flowers and simmer in 2 cups water; strain. Add 2 tsp. white vinegar. Simmer the skins from 6 avocados in 1-1/2 cup water for 20 minutes; strain. Add 2 tsp. white vinegar. Mix 1 cup pickled beet juice and 1 tablespoon vinegar.
💗Dark pink: Cut 1 medium beet into chunks and add to 4 cups boiling water. Stir in 2 Tbsp. vinegar and let cool to room temperature; remove beets.
💜Lavender: Mix 1 cup grape juice and 1 tablespoon vinegar.
Resource~betterhomesandgardens

04/01/2023

SOLD⭐️ UFD Split Black, Splash, & Lavender English Orpingtons. ⭐️

PPU Piedmont, 29673

03/30/2023

SOLD
(Update: we have a few more due 2nd week of april)

1 Sebastopol gosling

Discounted due to red mark on bill. (see photo - right side) Super sweet & Imprinted to humans. Started off on Kalmbach flock maker & vitamins, ready to go.

Pickup in Piedmont.

03/29/2023

Spring is here and there are so many plants you maybe already finding in your lawn or garden that have great medicinal benefits!

Chickweed pesto & Dandelion tea is on our menu!

• Reduces Inflammation
• Improved digestion
• Prevents respiratory problems
• Improves skin health
• Helps with weight loss

Just to name a few!
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02/22/2023

Bielefelder Chickens

Gentle giants. Our first breed we got to supplement as a meat bird. Roosters will reach 7-10lbs.

We have 3 boys available if anyone is looking for some great meat birds to process this summer. If not we will be hatching this breed bi-weekly if you are also looking for pullets.

Fed NON-GMO feed, AI/NPIP Pending, Pickup in Piedmont.

02/18/2023

My two favourite Sebastopols became lovers and I’m so excited to see their babies! 🥚

02/14/2023

Milliman ⭐️ Line Cayuga eggs loading in!
Sebastopol eggs loading in! & Breeder quality Welsh Harlequin ( Mixed Lines Milliman/Holdderead).

We are a month away from hatching our waterfowl but we will have sexed Bielefelder chickens and English Orpingtons hatching here and there over the next couple weeks.

If you would like to be added to our Cayuga or Sebastopol waitlist please message me your name, quantity, and number.

Did you know Cayuga eggs arn’t actually green or black? It is actually their bloom that is coloured!

02/04/2023

Howdy everyone, we’re getting ready for hatching season over here… be on the look out for our 2023 Breeder list coming up in one of our next posts.
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The first poultry & waterfowl to be hatching will be sexed Bielefelder chickens (peach/beige egg colours) and our popular Welsh Harlequin ducks. PM for more info! More breeds to follow!
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Can’t wait to meet y‘all! See you soon! ❤️

12/28/2022

We survived the weekend freeze!
How does your homestead look?
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12/25/2022

❄️Wishing yall a Happy Holidays, God Jul, and Merry Christmas from Edelweiss Homestead.❄️
🦆 🌲 ⭐️

I hope all our friends and family are staying warm and safe. Alot of extra work this weekend with lows of 7F and negative windchills. Alot of our birds are locked up, some in the garage. Looking forward to temperatures going back up next week.

I am Pretty sure I lost my garden already… but the benefit to these freezing temperatures are knowing now your strengths and weakeness. And how to improve on failures.

Will you keep a stock of extra buckets in the garage now? Maybe you learned a trick to keep water from freezing? Maybe you can write out a winter prep list and to do’s as a reminder on how to deal with these situations. Whatever it maybe, you now have gained valuable knowledge to execute a better system for next time.

This is just Gods reminder to us that he is in control and Nature rules above everything.
It is time to be grateful for our comforts and each other as we work hard to keep our animals alive and warm.

Wishing everyone well into the new year!

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12/11/2022

How feeding 52 meat birds (Freedom Rangers) looks like in the morning in our modified brooder tower.

We have been loving the ability to grow our own food. Excited to try these compared to the Cornish X!

12/10/2022

Another Package of hatching eggs going to Puerto Rico! 🤠 Hey, Apparently they say good things about us down there! 🏝

My, how amazing it would be to visit these farms in the jungles of PR with our Ducks!
And just like always our customer reported ZERO cracked/damaged eggs! 🥚

I woke up yesterday to 3 more hatching egg orders and 4 eating egg orders. Extremely blessed and grateful. ❤️ Thankyou always for your support!

12/10/2022

We all may be cursing under our breath about these week long rains, but my small winter garden is sure loving it. Looking forward to that curly kale and bok choy! 🥬

Remember, it’s not to late to plant onions and garlic! 🧄

Are you preparring for your spring garden yet?
What are some things you did last year that you plan to do different next year?

Ill tell you what I don’t need next year is a couple dozen cucumber plants. 🤣 I haven’t eaten cucumber since spring because we had SO much.

This Fall we added maybe about a dozen Rasberry plants, half a dozen Blackberry and Blueberry, two orange trees, a lemon tree, 2 cherry trees and a Pear tree.

Next year I plan to add half a dozen apple trees,strawberries, and more raised beds.

12/10/2022

🎄 🌟 Update: Only Male ducklings left** 🌟 🎄

This is our last hatch till February, females and males available, christmas deals, breeder Quality Welsh Harlequin. UFD PIEDMONT

12/10/2022

Last night’s chuck roast before going in the oven. Square G Farm will have our yearly business for now on! 🐄

12/09/2022

11/28/2022

We have a couple female Welsh Harlequins available. 🦆

There will be only one more hatch this week and only one hatch in December right before Christmas.

11/26/2022

Thankyou Piedmont’s Living Grace Baptist Church for donating your leftover pumpkins and haybales to our farm!

Instead of this fall setup being disgarded in the trash it will be repurposed for animal bedding.

We are still picking up local items, unpainted and unbleached pumpkins, reach out to us! Thankyou!

11/16/2022

It’s been raining for days so I haven’t been able to do a full announcement or good photos yet, these don’t do them justice.. I can’t wait to show them off!

Check out that shine! 😍 It doesn’t get any better than this folks..

⭐️ Milliman show line Cayuga are here! ⭐️

They took a long journey down from the Ohio Nationals and are just settling in..
This past weekend the Millimans took home Champion Waterfowl with their Cayuga. 🥹Congratulations! Thankyou for sharing some of your beautiful babies that we have waited years for! We can’t wait for more!

Welcome to SC!

11/08/2022

Pullets and laying hens available

Breeder quality Welsh Harlequin duck hatching eggs
Lavender Ameraucana - SOLD
Bielefelder Laying hens (under a year old) - SOLD

11/07/2022

Thankyou Caledonia homes of Easley for donating your leftover pumpkins and hay bales!

11/04/2022

Thankyou from Edelweiss Homestead for everyone who has been donating your leftover pumpkins this season! 🎃
Unbleached abd unpainted, Piedmont.

11/04/2022

Needing some Holiday gifts and wanting to support your local farms? Check out our friends farm for some sweet treats. 🥰

This year we are offering special gift boxes made right here off of Quail Haven Farm! Sets includes an assortment of 4, 1/4 pint jars of Muscadine Jam, Apple Butter, Sweet Potato Butter and a Holiday Jam (TBD)...likely an Apple/Cranberry jam, along with a half pound of nice big, fresh, meaty, in-shell Pecans right here from the Farm! These sets are $25 each and will make AMAZING gifts to friends, family, coworkers, bosses and....well, pretty much anyone! 😉 We are finishing up their contents here in the next week and we will have them ready ASAP. Let us know if you would like to order any. This money does go right back in our farm's feed funds and helps take care of every animal here! Thank you for shopping local and supporting your local, small farms!

11/01/2022

Its that time! We are downsizing for winter!
We have some Welsh hens available, laying, pet quality, ranging from 1-2yr old. *SOLD
2 day old Khaki Campbell ducklings (we wont offer the breed after these next hatches) SOLD
Coturnix Quail (males and females, laying). -Small AVAILABILITY
Male Sebastopol’s (less than a year old) - 1 LEFT

UFD Piedmont

10/31/2022

Pool time for some of our Sebastopol’s.

10/31/2022

Howdy everybody! 🤠 👻

I haven’t been posting much but we have still been busy over here! I know this year our Welsh Harlequins were in higher demand and I apologize for the extended wait time. I appreciate everyone who has waited on either breeds or hatching eggs! They are worth the wait. 🙂

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So.. Spring started off rough. We had a few incubators crash, a couple months of no hatches, until we invested into a Dickey Inc. Cabinet. Then half our Welsh Harlequins overcourse decided to go into molt and are now just coming out of it. Our newest flock of the Milliman bloodline just started laying a month ago. This month we are finally going to have enough ducklings for everyone! Yay!

We are hatching the last of our Khaki Cambells. Though we loved providing this small breed to backyard flock owners we decided to make room for the long overdue Cayuga to come back home. Yes, It’s finally happening and transport is arranged from NY (Duck Hollow Farm) to NC. Ill be making the trip in less than two weeks to pick up this Champion show winning bloodline! *squeals*

Our plan is to keep our popular show quality Welsh Harlequins and Cayuga to offer to the public while we also work on our own self-suffient needs. This summer we got into Berkshire pigs after we bought more property. We had breeders in place but decided to postpone breeding till we finish our paddock system. We are still working on offering duck meat(jumbo pekin) but we keep eating so many. 🤣 In due time.

We haven’t been too busy with our chicken breeds. Im still replacing a few options but the availability for spring will be our popular colour Splash Laced Red Wyandottes, Splash,Black & Lavender English Orpington’s, and Im hoping to have Chocolate laced Orpingtons.

We are also bringing in 100 Freedom rangers this month and will retain breeders and eventually offer both meat birds(Freedom Rangers and Bielefelders).

We took our first leap into gardening this year. Canning. Planted fruit trees. Rasberry bushes and blackerry bushes gifted to us from a farm closing. Added a few more freezers. And really investing into ‘food-security’.

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We think 2023 is going to be the best farm year yet as I travel this joirney with my hardworking husband and my two precious daughters.

It’s going to be a cold winter, we will still be selling hatching eggs but most likely will only hatch every other week after the month of November.

10/05/2022

More needing homes!