Hello World!

Welcome to our blog!

We are a family of four making our way from city life to farm life, which we will document here. So, as our first post, we've outlined the state of our tiny farm as it stands now, where we plan to go in the immediate future, and where we hope to end up

Where we are now:

1/4 acre rented property in Salt Lake City, Utah. We currently garden about 1/16 of an acre as well as keeping chickens. Up to this point we have mostly sold eggs to our friends and neighbors. We have just started keeping French Angora rabbits with our first one that we brought home this summer.

Where we're going in the immediate future:

Rabbits:

We are trying to work out how to pick up two more rabbits in Arizona next month, and are looking at one in Colorado. If we were to have all four of these, we would have the basis for a good beginning breeding program. At that point we would start breeding and making our adorable little fluff-balls available for sale! We would also hope to start selling the angora fiber.

Fiber:

We also recently acquired quite a bit of raw wool which we are working on getting into the various stages of preparation so that we can start to sell that too. We hope to sell it as raw washed wool, carded wool, combed wool, and spun into various yarns. This wool also happens to be rather dark colored, so we're also going to experiment with over-dying it and see how that goes.

Chickens:

We have currently maxed out our permit for the number of chickens we can keep, so our next step is to start thinning our flock so that we can add more egg colors! We are also hoping to set up several recurring orders - that is people who will have a regular order of a dozen eggs per week or every other week.

Business:

Currently we are both working full-time (and frequently overtime) regular jobs and working our mini (micro...nano...) farm on the side. We'd like to get to where one of us can either drop to part-time at our regular job, or even better, quit altogether!

The end goals:

Location:

Our ultimate goal is to move back to the Pacific Northwest where The Husband is originally from and the vast majority of his family lives. Utah is a beautiful place, but Washington will always be home. Once there, we'd like to start with a minimum 5 acres with the possibility to grow later.

Animals:

At this point, we see ourselves as developing into a fiber farm. We'd like to expand our angoras, as well as adding sheep and/or alpacas. In addition to that, we would also continue to keep chickens, and also add animals for meat and milk for our own family.

Diversification:

We hope to be able to offer classes and workshops covering nearly everything we do - spinning, fiber prep, knitting, chicken keeping, rabbit care, gardening, canning, and anything else that we can think of! If we have the space, we'd also like to be able to host events and weddings and possibly add a farm-to-table restaurant!



So there you go - where we are, where we're headed, and where we want to end up. Again, welcome to our blog, we look forward to seeing you around!