Estes Farms

10/27/2024

Amoz talk. Livestream

https://zoom.us/j/92960760079?pwd=tldJtJgXlX5eWprFyIGwt7IGPSefDb.1

Meeting ID: 929 6076 0079
Passcode: 757778

10/23/2024

A great day!

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09/23/2024

Best and most efficient dryer(time, energy, & fuel wise) I've ever had. Solar and wind working for me. And I get some much needed vitamin D, fresh air and a moment to appreciate all I have.

09/01/2024

For all those interested in hearing Amoz Estes speak at church before he leaves on his mission.
October 27, 10-11am @ the Rock Creek Ward building.

09/01/2024

More photos of fire conditions Saturday evening. Around 5:30pm

09/01/2024

Fire near our house today kicked us in gear to finish our preventative fire measures. These photos are from when we first saw the fire to a few minutes ago.

We're so grateful for a supportive and responsive community that worked so hard to get it under control, and get those under evacuations and their animals out when they needed it.

08/29/2024

Boba is still around and growing everyday.

08/29/2024

Boba keeps growing. Still takes a bottle everyday, but we lessen the milk each week. But it's still so fun to have a fawn walk up and want love.

08/05/2024

¡¡¡So Excited!!! For those who couldn't get the live stream, Amoz Estes has been called to the Baguio Philippines mission and reports to the MTC Oct 28.

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07/30/2024

Amoz Estes mission call has arrived. Please join us to celebrate all his hard work in preparing to serve as a missionary of The Church Of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints. He will be reading his call at our home. We will also be streaming live here on Facebook.

https://facebook.com/events/s/mission-call-opening-for-amoz/527908893128770/?mibextid=Gg3lNB

05/13/2024

The northern lights put on a show for us last weekend. So, the kids decided to join them.

04/05/2024

Snow in April! Typical Northwest weather, it keeps you on your toes. 😏

03/04/2024

Follow-up UPDATE:
I did find out she was too cold. Although I am still unclear how she got too cold. I now know it takes baby goats 5 days to regulate their temp. So I will keep that information close for the future. I did what I could to get her upright and warm. I was getting ready to drive to the vet and she passed. This all happened in just a few short hours. I'll have to find a way to take this info and make improvements. Thank you for all the help that was given and advice. You're a great community of people.

UPDATE:
Little girl is sitting correctly. I took her temp (not sure I did it right) got 91.5F. her mouth was cold. I'm holding her in position now and have her wrapped and a hot rice bag under her.

She has only been fed fresh goat milk. We get them to eat on Mom's milk on her as much as possible. We only supplement with reheated goat milk at night when I bought them in because of weather. Otherwise they've been with Mom.

I need advice. No idea what is happening. Here is a link to the original post.

Baby that seemed tired but making progress all the time on her front wobbly legs took a turn this morning. Now she won't move and it's pooping out yellow foam diarrhea.

03/03/2024

It took me a while to post this, but my 2 Nubians have had their babies. Bingchaling had a large buck on Feb 23. There were some weather issues and the baby got trapped for a few hours and got cold. We did what we could but boy didn't make it through the night.
Today Lupe had twins. Little brother and Little sister are up and walking, they got a bit cold with some crappy weather we had the last few days. However we gave them both selenium and watched them feed, also put more straw in their pen. So far they are going great except that Lupe seems to both want her babies and ignore them. We're hoping that will change now that everything has been set up. Bing is attentive to then and Lupe gets jealous, but at least there's another option.
Bing has been giving half a gallon being killed once per day, and that makes me so happy. We're still tweaking what they're eating and how we process it to make it taste as good as possible.
Believing things will only get better and praying if they don't work know what to do if it doesn't.

02/28/2024

2nd round of chicken pox ✅
It's Seviah's turn this time.

02/18/2024

Thank you for all the birthday wishes! It was a wonderful day and I'm sincerely grateful for all the thoughts and wishes shared. I Love you all 🥰

02/08/2024

So excited for the new nests to be installed. is working hard to get it finished for me.

01/17/2024

Snow storm solar maintenance. 😉

01/12/2024

Alright y'all, I am so excited to report, during a severe winter storm- probably one of our worst production days, we still managed to produce more than our consumption. Reduced time we ran the generator 2 days in a row. And yesterday was a day where it was cold but we did end up getting some sun after a storm and a bit of cloud coverage.
I can't tell you how thrilled we were to see the numbers.
62AMPs!
What in the world.... we have never seen these kind of numbers in the 12 years we have been out here. It has been so fun, we kept trying to figure out what we could turn on electrically that would consume some of the power coming in.
We did figure out we didn't have a big enough breaker for the array, which was a small issue we resolved. But just feeling very blessed, and if possible more grateful and passionate about living an independent and sustainable life one step at a time. It definitely is a lifestyle change- never easy, but once you understand how the system works, it gets much easier. It becomes practical and efficient.
Don't think cause you live somewhere it snows, or has multiple seasons that it won't work for you. This is proof you can make it here in the PNW.
As with any and all systems, including your utility there will be downfalls and weak areas. Key to living sustainably is redundancy. Plan A, B, and C, maybe even D and E, in place or process ready to take over when outside factors mess with best laid plans.
If you're curious about solar, living off-grid, have questions or are interested in adding solar to your life. Please reach out, dm me, email me @ [email protected] or you can text/call me at the number listed on my page.
I love discussing and teaching people about the way I live and the choices we have within reach to affect our lives positively and become more independent.

12/29/2023

Got our 15 brand new 305W panels mounted. Huge feeling of accomplishment and joy. It's been a work in progress for too long.
* Build ground mount ✅
* Mount solar panels ✅
To do:
* Wiring to create the array into strings
* Build the breaker box
* Mount Breaker box
* Finish wiring the strings to breaker box
* Mount and wire the new Midnight controller
* connect the ground mount array to the batteries with 2-OT wire.

When this project is complete we will have 3 times the solar we have lived off of for the last 8 years.

12/25/2023

This is so beautiful. I had to share the light.

https://www.facebook.com/1322886870/posts/10229178621833132/?mibextid=Nif5oz

12/24/2023

So grateful for family traditions. Christmas tradition of making Christmas cookies with Grandma. We have some very good cookie decorators in the house. And we had fun watching football with Grandpa Tim.

12/23/2023

We got the windows in.... Thanks to some leverage on the tractor mower from the girls, the kids, and 2 of the kids friends lending their muscles to our project. We got the 2 hardest windows in. You were a huge help and Josh Anderton
Thanksgiving project was a success because of you.

10/24/2023

2 worlds collide. Introducing farm friends to school friends.

10/23/2023

Pictures of my walk around the property and the end is of Amoz on the roof taking measurements of the chimney.