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Wilde edible plants are great things to know about- especially the more common weeds. Let's take a moment to look around the property for some tasty butter lettuce. Every time I say "sheep's sorrel"

The colorful eggs of Leafhopper Farm show the mixed flock of ladies working the land and turning it into gold (with some great Scratch and Peck layer mix). The last of one of my deer harvested in 2015

A wonderful couple, Gina and Judd, came for a day at Leafhopper Farm. They are part of World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms- a non-profit organization matching organic farmers with people looking

Leafhopper Farm is an egg producer! We’re churning out a case a week now, and it’s going to stay at this level to maintain quality (and sanity of the farmer). Hands down, more than 40 active layers on

The young Cemani chicks are out on pasture now and learning their new habitat. The custom designed Sun Chair 2000 has been serving as the young bird roost for several seasons now, and I must say, the design

Found them yet? I’ll give a hint: bottom center and mid center, there are at least 6 shrooms in the photo. Well, I missed this crop in the hedgerow along the west fence line. Can’t find em’ all, but I

Today the kids enjoyed one of their favorite games- “Top of the Rock”. Gwern is still a little larger than his younger siblings, Proctor and Gamble, but today, Gamble, our only female kid, took possession

What does two weeks of rain followed by a week of warm sun bring? Spring growth! From bulbs to bracken fern, the plants are up and growing at Leafhopper Farm. We’ve stripped back the cloche coverings and

Guess who just became a new mom at Leafhopper Farm? That’s right! Lucia gave birth to two kittens last night and there’s no doubt who the father is. Muir is lazing on the porch with no clue. Meanwhile,

Weiss Creek has a new buffer fence along her head waters off Big Rock Rd. and it’s happening on Leafhopper Farm! With the help of my amazing family, we got the last of this fence line up and stretched

It’s the first time Leafhopper Farm has had a “gang” of kids running together in the larger herd. They are most often together exploring, grazing, or laying in a big pile. There is a lot more behavior

The Cats clamor for kibble in the early morning light at Leafhopper Farm! These prowling feline fantastics have kept the mice out of the grain room, the voles out of the garden, and have a handled on our

Leafhopper Farm is emerging as a productive restoration farm in the face of many challenges in our modern agricultural economy, but none so fierce as climate change. In the summers of 2015, 2016, and 2017

Our head doe dropped her kids last weekend and we’re now celebrating three kids at Leafhopper Farm! These two newest additions to the herd are settling in now after an initial some what violent entrance

So, I was just informed by Alexia of Hawthorn Farm, that my duck are not Magpies, but in fact, Anconas! I then went to task on finding out what separated Magpies from Anconas and found a lot of murky water.

Branwen and her kid Gwern The sun came out for a day and so did our goat herd for the first time since the new birth of our first kid in 2018. Branwen was reluctant to move too far from the barn, but Gwern

During the night Branwen dropped her first kid! This little buckling has been christened “Gwern”, the son of Branwen in Irish legend. If you remember, Branwen and Bran were born on St. Patrick’s Day, so

Leafhopper Farm does not use a tractor, but sometimes, machines make light work. This truck brought several loads of biomass (brush and tree limbs) to the farm, staging them for a summer project in which

Though at this moment, Leafhopper Farm is veiled in frost, the awakening of the landscape to changing season cannot be lost. Grass is creeping slowly, turning the very ground into a rich carpet of supple

The black cockerels are revving up for Spring, and we’ve got eggs in incubation. The incubator can’t handle the weight of a full 24 eggs, but at 18, we’re in business! Our laying flock of hens is at about