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We've got some new additions here at Leaning Oaks Farm. Well, let me back up a bit ... Back in April, we had a request to take in an...

Well, that year flew by in a flash. Let's see what you missed. I lost Princess Laya due to an unknown accident, and Louise to a hawk...

I've been thinking that I really needed to get back to this, but I didn't really intend for it to be this way. I just walked out into the...

Yes, I've been slacking the last couple of months. Well, really, I've been busy. We took several trips in the second half of the...

We got our first egg yesterday. It was very exciting. Couple of things about this first egg. First, the color - isn't it beautiful? ...

My cucumber plants were a little slow to get started, but now that they have, well, I have plenty of cucumbers, let's just put it that...

Well, it seems we have run into a bit of a situation. A "that was supposed to be a hen, but is apparently a rooster" type of situation....

We're still on egg watch, so I thought I should update everyone on the state of the garden. It's gotten off to a slow start, and...

We've had a number of breakouts this week. The chickens have discovered that the "grass is greener" on the other side of the fence. We...

You might have noticed a new picture on the homepage. That's right, we have a new family member. Meet Duke. Or Sir Duke, as Lee likes...

I've finally had the first "real" harvest from my garden. I dug up some potatoes on Sunday and made mashed potatoes. Yum. I posted this...

Now that we've moved the coop outside and the weather has gotten nice, we've taken to giving the girls some supervised free range time. ...

Today I am very grateful. I am grateful that my mother had the patience to teach me some rudimentary (very!) sewing skills when I was...

Well, I know I've been MIA for a while. Busy, busy, busy. But I finally got a chance (and some help, photo credit to my daughter...

The chicks are coming!! They’ve been shipped from Missouri. I’m so excited, I feel like an expectant mom all over again.

I'm really getting excited now. Big things happening!! I ordered my chicks this weekend from Cackle Hatchery in Missouri. They had a...

Well, we got started on the garden in earnest this weekend. We built 4 additional raised garden bed boxes (we had built one back in the...

My name is Missy, and I'm in the process of becoming a backyard farmer. We recently moved from suburbia to the country, to a beautiful...