Jennifer Sartell

A great way to offer your customers a wide variety of produce options longer into the season is by planting a fall garden. This is an especially profitable venture in the market setting. Where others are offering the last bits and pieces of a winding crop, you can bring in fresh stock of new produce. […]

Often times, farm life is romanticized. In fact yesterday I wrote a post dealing with this exact subject.   I can’t tell you the number of friends I know who have come to our farm and have been inspired to start a garden or get a flock of chickens. Often the romance lasts a few […]

I hear a lot of discussion about how farms/homesteads are represented, especially on the internet. I love photography and photographing our farm is one of my favorite things to do. By sharing photos and stories of our farm I have made some of the best online friendships, learned lessons about homesteading and would not have […]

You don’t have to own a 100-acre piece of land to make an income from farm life. Below are 10 ideas on how to make money on a small piece of land. If you combine several of these, you can keep a steady income coming through your farm.   A word of advice:   Don’t […]

In my opinion, the availability of hatching eggs is the modern miracle of the chicken world. Much like ordering seeds from a seed catalog you can raise chickens from all over the country, even the world via hatching eggs.   This virtually makes the availability of breeds endless! It’s exciting to see what it’s doing […]

I truly commend all of those who are successful in the farmers market circuit. This is in no way a post discouraging people from participating in your community market. In fact, I love to visit our markets throughout the week.   But for us, participating in the weekly market became too much work and time. […]

My husband Zach and I recently made a tough decision. As you may have read in some of my other posts, we are opening a U-Pick Lavender farm. It was our hope that U-Pick would start this summer with a soft opening as the plants are still small. It takes 4 years for lavender to […]

Dairy goats make a great addition to any homestead. They are a small, easy to manage dairy animal that most moderately-sized homesteads can support. There is a wide margin for profit with dairy goats. Below are some ideas to get you started.   The Obvious…Dairy Right?   It might seem obvious that the way to […]

This is the last post in my NPIP Certification series. In this post I get into the knitty gritty of actually testing your flock for pullorum. You will still have to become a certified tester for the results to be considered, but this will give you an idea of what is involved before deciding to […]

The number one reason I decided to become a Certified Salmonella Pollorum Tester is to save money when getting my flock NPIP Certified.         I plan on selling hatching eggs in the near future and to do so legally, my flock must be NPIP Certified. This entails a blood test performed by […]