The Huckleberry Homestead Story
We started Huckleberry Homestead on virgin land that had been used for grazing and haying for decades. We didn’t even have a driveway, and had to trudge through the neighbors’ properties to hike across the land!
During the first couple of years, we planted a fruit orchard and a berry patch, raised chickens and turkeys, moved bees into our apiary, and built a log cabin. Huckleberry Homestead then started selling eggs, honey and canned goods within our community.
After we moved into the cabin, and with a lot of help from our friends, we put in a fire pit, set up rainwater catches and barrels and built raised garden beds with built-in composting.
We set up our various processing areas for herb-drying and honey and canning, as well as a knife-making forge and workshops for carving hand-crafted tobacco pipes, creating candles and wax melts, prepping beeswax and weaving carpets and small rugs on our loom.
Our raised beds are developing into an herb and tea garden, and our apiary has grown.
We are always looking toward future blessings on our small farm as we expand to share Huckleberry Homestead’s bounty with our community.
As time went on, we put up fences to protect our young orchard and berry patch from the local deer, built a cedar greenhouse and expanded our chicken and turkey areas.
It has been a beautiful, fulfilling, busy time. We are grateful to God for this bountiful land, the resilience of our family, the knowledge and assistance of so many folks who help and pray for us along the way, and for the opportunity to share what we have learned, made and grown.
Thank you for being a part of our homestead! We’d love to hear from you.