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Gardening Classes!

Amateur gardening class tomorrow. Noon to 3pm. Learn how to prepare a bed, ensure proper drainage and irrigation, fertilize naturally, how to start brassicas in mini greenhouses early season and what ARE brassicas!

If you’re wanting to learn gardening basics and what can be done in this area at this time of year, you should learn something this class. You will use hand tools and learn how to work WITH nature instead of against it. Wear old clothes, heavy duty boots and gloves. Plan to get dirty. 🙂

Your class this day includes home made lunch and drinks. I often include our own home grown produce, farm raised meats, dairy and home made drinks, occasionally including choices of probiotics, herbal teas and/or fresh made juices.

Fee is $15 per person aged 12 and up. Children under 12 are free with paying adult. Call or text for availability. Deadline to register is 9am tomorrow.
Bring a paying friend and get your class for 1/2 price.

* We are a non-smoking, no illegal drugs, no alcohol property.
* All children must be supervised and remain with guardian at all times.
* Please arrive on time or up to 20 minutes early.

Price List (January 2016)

Dairy-
Goats milk 3.00 quart
Eggs 3.00 dozen

Meat–
Live chicken 15.00
Chicks-(mixed breeds only)
3 day old 4.00 each
2 week old 5.00 each
4 week old 6.00 each
6 week old 7.00 each
12 week old 10.00 each
6 month old 15.00 each
Laying hens 20.00 each

Probiotics–
Kefir grain starter 5.00 small/10.00 large
Kombucha 4.00 pint/7.00 quart/25.00 gal
Kombucha scoby starter 5.00 sm/10.00 L

Bakery–
Quick breads 6.00 per loaf
Cookies 6.00 dozen/3.50 1/2 dozen
Pumpkin pie 11.00
Fruit pie 12.00
Cake 8.00
Sand which bread 6.00 loaf
Dinner rolls 6.00 dozen
Whole wheat berries .50 per pound
Fresh ground WW flour 1.00 per pound
Fresh ground FS flour 1.50 per pound

Produce– (coming in soon)?planting now!
Available seasonally only.

Herbs, plants and seeds-
Grown in the garden or wild crafted seasonally only.

Household–
Lye bath soap 5.50 6oz bar
Celtic sea salt 7.00 pound
Lard or Tallow 5.00 quart

Rainy Days

With the recent barrage of storm winds and 10″ of rain just in the past 2 days, I’m considering nick naming our place- Oasis Homestead Swamp!

It’s just been awful. Luckily all the animals have some small areas of high ground or benches/perches to stay dry on but this swampiness is quite uncomfortable. It’s even coming inside our house.

Fortunately, we can count our blessings that we have had 0 injuries or sicknesses and no property damage despite the brutal storm winds. As others in different states are dealing with tornado and ice storm damage, we have a lot to be thankful for. God bless those that have lost their loved ones, homes and animals. I pray that each special critter gets care while its lost and is reunited with its family.

All of us at Oasis Homestead send you soggy hugs!

Here’s a little snippet of a story…
Momma came up to me a couple weeks ago while I was filling the duck pond with fresh water. She had in her mouth a young deer leg, found in the woods around our place after deer season began. I just happened to be near the kennel with all her 4 week old pups in it.

She came right up to me and looked at me with those big chocolate brown eyes, expectantly. I thought for a moment… What could she be wanting to tell me? I had 1 idea: did she want to show me her trophy find? Nah, that’s not usually her style. Hmmm

Then it popped in my head! She wanted to give it to her pups, who were not within her reach at that moment. She was asking me to open the door for her.

I walked over to the kennel door and before opening it, asked her if she wanted to go in… She changed that look in her eyes from- “do you understand me?”
To- “I’m glad you understand me!”

I opened the door just enough for her to fit in. The pups were napping of course. They had BIG exciting puppy dreams going on! Complete with tail flipping, ear twitching and tiny puppy whimpers. I’m sure they were having the time of their puppy lives in their dreams when all of a sudden…. Here comes MOMMA with something delicious for us to chew on and fight over!!

It was so adorable. Over the course of the next few days other bits of deer wound up in that kennel for her pups to chew on. Each time she brought some other tasty bit to me, there wasn’t a moment lost in the translation between her and I.

I love that dog ?

Older Female Pup (born March 9th)

This is the only female left from the older litter (yard ID#04) born March 9th. After a nice meal, I begin working with them a bit one on one. She sat nicely for me when I asked her to, with plenty of patience. They are learning to allow an owner or vet health exam.

I check their ears, eyes, teeth, gums, tongue, brush their coats, pick out debris from their hair, check paws, nails and pads, check their genitals and bottoms for any messiness, signs of worms, injuries, or any other signs of potential health issues.

We are still working on them allowing me to brush their tails. Great work obeying commands today my sweet girl!