What has been happening on our homestead?

I have had a few readers ask me what is new on our homestead since I last posted. 

Well during my time away from blogging, we downsized our goats. We no longer have meat goats. All we have now are 3 goats. My mom's pygmy goat, Tyler's white and brown Nigerian dwarf and Kyle's Black/brown Nigerian dwarf. We also downsized our layers. At the time that was what we needed to do. We had a lot on our plate and a lot going on. 

We have since gotten more layers and are excited to be getting our egg business up and running! ( Even getting our business stamp made and should be here by the end of the week! Also, got our order of 100 new cartons.) We just got an order of layer chicks to help replace a good bit of our older birds come this fall/winter. We are super excited about this part of our journey and how we are looking to hopefully continue to expand.And talking about expanding,  I have an incubator coming this month ( Happy Mother's day to me! :) ) to also start the next  new adventure into hatching/ raising our own replacement layers, as well as selling some of the chicks we hatch and raise.  I will be sure to do a post on this, showing which incubator we chose and as we go through this adventure , so stay tuned!

We have put in a small orchard in our backyard! We put in 2 peach trees and 2 pear trees. We will be excited for them to start producing fruit in a few years. The boys have also put in a small pond in the middle of the orchard for the next  new additions. Any guesses? 

And last we have put our garden in for this year. We are already enjoying lettuce , strawberries and even some broccoli from it. We planted lettuce( 2 types), broccoli, sugar peas, green beans, dry beans, zucchini, 3 types of tomatoes), beets, onions ( red and white) and a lot of red potatoes. We also transplanted 2 blueberry bushes that were Tom's dad's. We are very excited to have these and see they already have some fruit started grow on them. 

Did / or are you getting anything new or excited to add to your farm/homestead/property? I would love to hear about it. Leave it in the comments! 

~ Katie