Please check out Round House Farm Etsy page

As I have blogged before the cost on the farm can add up. Round House Farm started an Etsy page to showcase and sell the item we have for sale. Please look often for new items. 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/181342383/hand-crafted-wooden-welcome-sign-palm

Lilly & Lolla Thank You for your support!

Never any free time,let's make birdhouses

When you start a farm the last thing you think of is never ending work, right. It does seem like the list of to do things grows every day. Then we add new items that most likely don't need to be done. One thing the family has taken on as a farm house hobby is making birdhouses.

I guess it all started when my son started wood shop at the high school. He was in need of a project. So his father and I said we would love some birdhouses around the farm. 

He made a birdhouse alright. More like a bird hotel. We just loved it. 

Now it made us want more birdhouses around the farm. So the kids and daddy have been busy. Turning everything into a custom birdhouse. One of a kind birdhouses you will only find here at Round House Farm. 

Here is one made out of a Vintage Milk Jug. 

Dad and Mel work hard together to get them just right. 

Now we have started to sell them to help with some of the cost on the farm. You can check out our store often for our products. 

https://www.etsy.com/shop/RoundHouseFarm7

A lot has happened in a year!

Well it has been a whole year now and we have survived. We made it through the coldest part of the year, at least I think. So much has happened since my last blog. I will write to catch you up in a few blogs over the next couple of days.

But one thing is for sure this has been the best move for my family. The children are doing great in school. They both are making great friends and doing great academicly. They have stated they are very happy living in Skowhegan Maine and that they are happy we made the move. 

Round House Farm continues to grow and we work on improvements as we can afford them. All the animals seem to be doing fine through the cold winter, so far. We do our best to keep them as Warm and dry as possible with plenty of fresh water. That's the biggest chore, water freezes so fast around here. 

Well it's late so I will write in the morning!

This is our newest goat master Billy Goat, we hope he will bring us some summer babies. 

Silly Chickens

Today we found a nest in some brush in the woods near the chicken coop. Well when we looked closer, to our surprise, there was 17 eggs in it. Those silly chicken made their own nesting box outside the coop.
We took all the eggs out. Then cleared all the brush away. We hope this will make the chickens use the coop's nesting box.
I will see if there is an increase in eggs in the coop then I will know if it worked. If not I will search the woods for another nest, ugg.

Round House Farm, it all begins :)

It is funny how time flies.  When I decided to start this blog I was so excited to write everyday.  My mind would not stop thinking about what I wanted to write about next.  Well I still think that way but with one thing or another it just does not seem to get posted. 
A lot has happened since my last post.  So I will, hopefully, get you all caught up to date soon.  But for now let me tell you about our farm.
We moved here with some intentions on getting some animals but well might I say we have kinda gone hog wild.  First we all as a family thought long and hard on a name for our new home and farm.  We came to agree it was fitting to name our farm- Round House Farm.

The reason for the name is part of our home is a round house.  It just seemed to fit.  We all love the name.  First we were really wanting to start with chickens as our first animals.  So we started with a lot of research on the internet and by reading books.  When we thought we had enough knowledge we made the purchase of our first six chicks.

Within the first few days we soon realized six would not be enough so we went right out and bought six more.  We soon fell head over heels  in love with our new flock of babies.  Chickens are one of the greatest part of our home, we just love having them around.  They can make you smile and laugh they just bring you joy in so many ways. 
My husband worked hard and made a great chicken coop for our new chickens and they seem to love their home.  Our chicken flock now is about 30 chickens, some babies and some full grown layer hens.  Fresh eggs for our family is the only way.  The daily droppings they give us provides us with the best fertilizer for our garden.  It all just works out perfect.

My husband and son worked hard on our garden.  We decided to place the main garden in our front yard it is were we have sun for most of the day.  We want our farm to have an old time look and we want to use our resources wisely so we decided to make the fence around the garden with the timber we cut from our land. 

The garden has come along way and we watch it grow everyday. 

Our main goal for our new farm is to have it provide for our family.  We are well on our way.  It takes a lot of work.  My husband works every minute on one thing or another, we have a list that is never ending.  But I am sure it will pay off for our family three fold.