First Steps

I don't know how well the "blogging" thing will work for me, but I want to give it a try. I am at an age and stage in life where I need to decide what I am going to be when I grow up. I want to be a farmer.
 Not a big acre, multi-tractor, crops for cash kind of farmer, but a homesteader - a sufficient self.


   I have already started baby steps for my journey. In the spring I planted a 40'x60' garden.  I have a lot to learn in order to overcome my black thumb.

I also bought 16 pullet chicks in the spring. Big Poppy, formerly known as Marge, is my lone (surprise) rooster.

Now, I am trying my hand at raising meat chickens. I never thought I would see the day, but here I am.  They are Cornish Rock x , and as of 11/3 they were 2 weeks old. Meaties eat.. and eat... so that they have lots of energy to grow, poop and eat.

I started fostering horses in early August. I still have my first foster, he hasn't been able to find a home. I am ok with this.  I also have a 28yr old mare, Skye. I have had her since she was 6 and I was 16. 

 The rest of my menagerie includes 4 cats in my house, 2 outside and 2 at my parent's house. I also have a 14yr old yellow Lab - Buford- and a 2 1/2 year old yellow Lab - Rio.

This mostly will serve as a central recordkeeping page and photo album, but I would also welcome someone to walk alongside to coach, encourage and learn from and with.

  So put on some comfortable shoes and join me as I continue the babysteps of finding myself in farming - small scale style.