Achorn Farm

This past year was a year of personal revelations for me. I am creeping up on 40 you see.  Last July I found myself soul searching de...

Last Sunday, Mother's Day Bob FINALLY met his maker. He was the farm bully and everyone feared him except Maine Man. Bob didn't mes...

Maine Man ordered broilers ( Cornish Rocks) and a new flock of RI Reds. For any of you locals we may have some laying hens to sell and we...

He is EVIL, I swear! Meanest animal on the farm! SOON to meet his maker..... Last week I was the target as I bent over to feed the chickens...

I think this is our third year of raising broilers. We buy them as day olds and raise them to 6-8 weeks old. They arrived the same day the...

Back in February Country Boy & I filled his incubator with eggs. Just as we read, 21 days later... March 13 th they began to make thei...

We chuckled as our friend backed in our yard to return our chicken plucker and this is what filled his pick-up. 50 cases of canning jars....

Back in the game! I apologize for the break but I just could not keep up with everything. The pig roast went well and I will share pictures...

Back in the game.... it has been a while since I participated in Sunday Stills . Above is some garlic we planted last fall. We planted 3 ty...

It is that time of the week again for Sunday Stills photo challenge . It always creeps up on me and here I sit trying to get my post in bef...

My mom picked up some canning jars at a lawn sale. They must have been from LONG ago because as you can see they were priced at $1.99. Wel...

The last two weekends Flower Girl has made applesauce. It was another one of those firsts for me. I had never made homemade applesauce. Isn...

John set up the stand once again. We sold about $80 worth over the weekend. We had an honor system vegetable stand for 6 weeks during the...

This summer we raised 23 meat birds, another first for us. They were honestly the best chickens I've ever eaten! We were down to 4 or ...