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Barefoot Farm is a small family farm. This page is our journey from neglected rental property to thriving farm and eventually a farm stand with lots of goodies.

Along the way we will bring you laughs, an occasional face palm, fun pictures and adventures!

06/05/2024

Our first batch of incubated 🐥. We successfully hatched 8 chicks. We have one tiny one that needed a helping hand getting out of its shell but is a little fighter! They are the fluffiest little things I have ever snuggled 😍

05/30/2024

Spring has been cold and wet this year but soon we will have more 🐣 taking place as our first batch of eggs are set to hatch this weekend. Speaking of eggs the girls have kicked it into high gear we are collecting about 18 a day currently.

03/26/2024

Ms. Sadie has officially been home with us a week now and she is settling in so well! We are so happy with her! She has been a calm quiet observer that is not to be mistaken to mean she doesn’t have her own opinions because she definitely does! Although she had more than tripled in size from our initial meeting this girl is incredibly sweet. She has met all the farm animals, many family members and had her first experience going to Home Depot with Mom where she got overwhelmed and needed picked up. She’s decided car rides aren’t the end of the world….if she can at minimum hold mom’s hand but preferably have possession of her full arm for emotional support. There is something about this girl that is incredibly similar to my childhood dog Taffy which makes my heart happy!

03/08/2024

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02/25/2024

It was a beautiful crisp day to complete some fencing! Today we built a new pen for our breeding pair of pigs. We had planned to fence a large space this weekend but sadly the post pounding machine we were going to use broke down so we weren’t able to use it but we will circle back. We should have piglets mid/late June!

02/22/2024

Sir Winston Hamhill “Winnie the pig” joined the farm this week. Winnie is registered mulefoot boar. He is a rare heritage breed pig which is known for its hams and marbling. As the name implies, they do not have a cloven, split hoof, but rather a foot resembles that of a mule. Winnie will be joining our York/hamp pig, Dottie, and we look forward to a litter Midsummer.

02/11/2024

This sweet girl will be joining our family in 6 short weeks 🥰. This little love bug will eventually be a big love bug who will protect our chickens, goats, farm and family. We have eagles, hawks and other large birds of prey who frequent our area as well as coyotes, raccoons, cougars and the occasional bear. Not to mention the wandering dogs. Ms. Sadie was born amongst goats and has been around chickens since birth, she will come home at 12 weeks old to allow time for her working parents to instill important traits & correction for her. Livestock Guardian Dog (LGD) breeds have a naturally low prey drive and bond closely with their people and their animals and will lay down their lives to protect them. Ms. Sadie is an Anatolian Pyrenees, which is a cross of an anotolian shepherd and a Great Pyrenees.

01/31/2024

2024 is shaping up to be a busy one one for our little farm and we are so excited!

Once we finally got our garden fence installed (have to chicken proof the bottom this spring). We transplanted over a dozen blueberry bushes, added red raspberries, two varieties of yellow raspberries, blackberries, and 4 new fruit trees! It was a busy fall! We will be planting strawberries 🍓 this spring and installing a few raised beds.

We are looking forward to adding some exciting new critters to our farm this year and exploring how best to work with and take care of our land as holistically as possible!

01/31/2024

Winter‘s been a little different here in North Idaho this year. We didn’t get much of it until January seemed to try and fit it all into one month ended up with almost 2 feet of snow in our yard, off and on rain, subzero temperatures down to the -30s for a week. we had a 60° temperature difference in a weeks time from -30 to 30°. And then back in the 50s this week with heavy fog that never burns off. This constant fog and gray has us taking a moment to appreciate the beauty of winter sunsets an incredible rainbow and looking forward to spring days soon!

10/31/2023

Our young hens have officially started laying! We are still waiting for one more to start to see what color hers are but loving the variety of colors! We also unexpectedly had an opportunity to add a few pigs to the rotation this fall so before the ground fully freezes solid they are vigorously tilling up an area that suddenly turned into a thistle patch this year. One of our favorite “passive” farming techniques is to utilize standard bred pigs to till up hard to work & dense aggressive w**ded areas. This approach allows the pigs a large area to roam as well as roots out deep w**d roots and rocks.

09/30/2023

Exciting day! First eggs laid on the farm by our young hens! Believe these tiny little eggs came from our sapphire olive egger’s. These two silver girls are all personality! They are about 5 months old and we’re part of our first batch of 6 chicks we brought home. They are eager little foragers and have the best little bouffant hair do’s.

09/13/2023

Sorry we’ve been quiet over here. 2022 kicked our 🍑. I ended up with 3 surgeries in 4 months (May-September) and having to basically relearn how to properly walk🤦🏻‍♀️. The last 6 months were a wash. The upside is that it was a fairly wet summer making it the slightest bit easier to try to stop & take a rest.

Winter 22/23 we ripped out our old kitchen and I built all my own cabinet frames and a new kitchen island from scratch! We remodeled and expanded our guest/kid’s bathroom as well! BUT like many farm projects weather determines where we focus our efforts so once the weather turned we moved to outside projects and the inside reno work will resume with the snow in a few short months.

The name of the game this season has been “fencing” working on our 8’ garden fence and our goats 🐐 permanent winter pasture fence.
We also moved a 45yr old chicken coop to our place for renovation and to house our new flock of colorful egg layers.

We are at the tail end of our nice weather here and have a few more projects to wrap up little pieces of each one but getting close to buttoned up for winter.

We promise to be better about bringing you along for the fun! Expect picture recaps soon! Thanks for being here!

10/05/2022

Our first 🍎from our orchard! This year was a struggle as I ended up having 3 surgeries between Memorial Day and mid- September. My big plans sat and stewed while I recovered but hoping for a less eventful spring/summer 2023 so we can turn plans into reality!

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Algoma Spur
Sagle, ID
83860

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