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Need help setting up the perfect area for your new animals?  We're always learning from our peers and we hope we can pass what we learn on to others to benefit their stock.  If you would like to schedule a free site visit for a friendly chat and some helpful advice, please .  We can offer tips on general lay-out considering drainage, wind, and weather, shelters (stalls, barns, and lean-tos), turn-out pens (pastures or dry lots), feed storage, milking parlors, and general animal husbandry.  We're also especially experienced at planning and building fencing (particularly electric horse fencing).  At least we can welcome you to the community and put you in touch with others with common interests in your locale!

Let us give you peace of mind while you're away. We're experienced and have references. your approximate location, the month of absence (for your protection, please do not send your exact dates until we connect!), and a summary of your needs.  If you have a budget in mind, please include this in your email.  We'll do our best to help!

In addition to the basics of watching and securing your property, collecting mail and newspapers, watering plants, opening and closing window coverings, turning lights on and off, and tidying up, we can feed and medicate animals, clean litterboxes, collect eggs, milk goats, handle animals for the veterinarian and farrier, rotate turn-out, blanket animals, check fences, and more!  We are familiar with off-grid power systems and wood stoves and we're also willing to learn with new animals and tasks.  Your animals will be much more comfortable at home, on their same diets and routines, and you'll know everything is safe and secure.

We pet, farm, house, & barn sit!  We know you don't want to needlessly stress out your animals while you're away! Don't board them out, let us pet, farm, house, and barn sit for you! We are a responsible, professional, drug-free, alcohol-free, non-smoking, married couple with experience handling pets and livestock (cats, dogs, fish, turtles, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, horses, goats, ducks, chickens, turkeys, etc.).

?  The calcium-rich shells help them build stronger shells for the next eggs to appear.   It's all part of nature's recycling plan and you can help!  Returning shells helps keep our costs down too, as the hens then consume less oyster shell to meet their calcium needs.  If you would like to return your shells, just place them in a bag and bring them with you when you pick up your next dozen (please don't put them in an exchange carton).  Our hens will thank you!

We garden as time allows and last year we had fantastic crops of zucchinis, tomatoes, lettuce, spinach, cilantro/coriander, basil, and others!  Our flowers looked great too!  Everything was in convenient raised beds but we were pretty limited on space for what we really wanted to do.  Guess we'll have to try our hand at planting in the ground - we have plenty of that here!  We're really looking forward to more of these activities in the coming year.

We garden as time allows and last year we had fantastic crops of zucchinis