Have you ever wanted to share a sustainable farm with FIVE other families?
C’mon, admit it. You totally have.
Tiffany Murphy from The Healthy Honeys is doing just that. By sharing the load of farming work with five families, they’ve been able to create an (almost) completely self-sustainable farm. From growing their own fodder, to making a solar panel-powered house, to using runoff water as a way to water their garden, Tiffany & her extended family are going to be ready for anything.
We’ll have to forgive Tiffany for not adding goats to her farm (yet), but she makes up for it in stellar sustainable gardening practices and animal husbandry. Together with her small community of extended family, they take care of a 1/2 acre garden, milk cow, meat steers, bees, egg-laying chickens and meat chickens, and ducks and turkeys.
Aside from chicken-eatin’ raccoons and tomato-stealin’ deer, their land is secure and safe tucked away in the foothills of Idaho.
Community farms are going to change our world!
Click here to listen to the Interview on my Radio Show, The Backyard Farmer!
Do you have an updated link or a podcast download link for this? The link’s not working for me in Chrome or Internet Explorer!
Hi Iryssa,
I’m sorry, I’m trying to figure out what is happening. I’ll let you know!
I was just checking in to see about an updated link as well. When I click on it, it won’t work for me either.
Thanks for the heads up Kaleena! I’ve updated the link now:)
Thanks for the heads up Iryssa! I’ve updated the link now:)
Hey there! I find that folks get excited about the concept of farmsteading, however… most don’t commit due to the hard work involved… no one wants to make that investment like they used to when our grandmas and grandpas were growing up… We have some friends who were excited when we decided to purchase some Freedom Ranger chicks to raise for meat, they wrote us a check and promised to help process in exchange for half the chickens… they keep asking about how their chickens are and treat us like their farm hands… I honestly think that we are never going to be truly food independent until we are willing to explore the joys of a hard day’s work down & dirty on the farm…