It has been about a year with ducks, and we had yet to see any eggs..

We are very proud to have our eggs featured in their dishes, and to be considered part of their collection of quality local farms.

Our coop is made out of an old tractor shed. There's a doorway cut out in the side for the chickens to go out into their run (made from

I have never been one to wish for rain, but after the Homestead Husband laid down the duck pond liner last night, I have been doing my rain

On July 23rd, 2018 the first chick was hatched at the Harper Homestead. Let this day go down in history.

*Graphic Content - Read at own risk.* Sometimes things just don't work out. When we vistied our coop today, we came to discover that one of our hatching eggs had somehow been cracked, causing us to lose one of our unborn chicks. While I am heartbroken, lately, life has been giving me some lessons in handling agricultural loss. Recently, we lost a different silkie hen, who had been picked up by a fox while free-ranging in our yard one morning. While we were able to save her

We are expecting!!!! Baby chicks that is! Thelma the *silkie hen (pictured above) went broody a couple weeks ago. Fiercely. Every time we went into the coop, she had horded all the eggs to a corner and would screech at us when we tried to pull them out. Full fledged banchee. She was ready to be a momma hen (must be something in the water at our house....). After a few intense egg-nabbings from Thelma, I convinced the Homestead Husband (HH) to leave her with a few silkie