Chickens, pigs, and lambs OH MY!

Post author:Terah Steffens
Post category:Farming

Welcome To Life On The Farm

Chickens, pigs, and lambs OH MY! I guess you could look at the adventures on the farm as walking the yellow brick road: we are never 100% sure of what we’re getting into, we get to meet incredible people and animals along the way, and we have a dog!

Each step we take with raising our girls and raising/growing our food is adventurous, scary, and completely worth it! Lucky for me, I don’t always have to leave the farm in order to walk my yellow brick road. We are definitely not in Kansas but we are home.

Our Central Oregon Home

Redmond, Oregon is where my husband and I settled down to raise our girls. Rewind a good 8 years and you’ll find us on our second date planting a garden. That’s where it all started.

We had this desire to feed ourselves, to know where our food came from and how it was raised and grown, to not have to pay $9.00 per pound for boneless skinless chicken breasts that were sad (to describe it the best way possible).

We wanted a connection with our food. Fast forward to now and you find us raising our food with this love and energy that absolutely transfers back into our body when we consume it. Eight years ago I would have thought of the idea of energy exchange to be silly. Now I believe there is nothing else.

Back to Dorothy! She was able to travel through her yellow brick road with one dog and I never noticed her having to stop to pick up his poop! Everyone is walking on their own path and every single one looks completely different from the next. No path is harder or easier: each path is just different. My traveling is sometimes slower than Dorothys due to raising our two girls, continuing to build this partnership with my husband, and figuring out how to keep lambs from jumping their fence.

Come join me! Let’s learn together and have a number of laughs! Ask the questions, get the answers, know that you can raise and grow your own food too! I wish to inspire others to grow and raise their own food or to search for local families and farms that do it with love.

First thing is first! How do I get my chickens? Where do I put them once I get them home? Food, water, heat?..OH MY! With beautiful interruptions, let’s explore the first day of bringing some chickens back to the farm. We are going to start with our meat birds (chickens raised for meat) and go from there!