Opifex Farmstead

06/25/2026

We have design ready! We can’t wait to build it! Please share and come join the fun with us.

Our Fall Festival will be on October 24th 2026!

🎃 Pumpkin Chunkin Contest- we will have registration open from August-September! Adult and kids age groups, prizes will be awarded to 1st and 2nd places. Must be mechanical, no explosives, and no electric needed.

🍲 Food Vendors NEEDED- we will have spots for about 5 food vendors, we will take reservations for spots in August.

Local businesses interested in donating a prize 🏆 for our contest please reach out via messenger or by phone. 936.348.0748

06/24/2026

I love everything about how my garden is coming along. Except mowing and bush hogging. 😒

03/17/2026

Lately on the homestead…
Babies. 4 new ones. Hershey gave birth to a little heifer we named Dutch. Hershey’s milk is coming in nicely. Nice and creamy. It’s a soft yellow which makes me excited to make butter and cheese! She doesn’t love the sound of the machine but she is taking to hand milking fine. I’ll keep working on her. Dutch got her first lesson in the halter. I think she will be perfect in every way next year. 3 new little piggies will be ready for purchase as breeders (no pairs) in May or for meat next spring. The Vincharden is coming along as well. We are still fighting with water pressure issues but we hope to have that resolved soon. God is so good. I think we need to hear that now more than ever. He is a mighty and merciful God. He is a God of grace and the one true King. Weeks like this past one remind me of his beautiful creation.

01/31/2026

Before the freeze came, I still had cilantro and dill growing. There was quite a bit. I preserved it by making dill salt, dill sourdough bread, dill aioli, dill butter and cilantro paste. The cold brought in a visitor. He was feisty and beautiful. The heifers got a new corralling pen. They can no longer bum rush us during feeding. Plus it allows me to work with Hershey Kisses. We are getting very close. I am excited to meet this new baby calf. I’m already thinking of names. I can’t wait to get all my milking equipment out again and begin another round of learning the art of cheesemaking. 🥰

01/10/2026

We don’t have a long winter so I can’t justify owning a green house. I also live in a 1200 sqft home with 5 other people, 2 cats and 4 we**ie dogs. So starting seeds inside isn’t an option either. This $50 greenhouse I got off Amazon has worked for me in all my years past. It lasts one season (maybe two) and it’s perfect. I can start ~ 150 plants. That enough to get a jump start on harvest season. I’ve also been baking sourdough weekly b/c I finally found a recipe that works with my schedule. Still improving the crumb but it’s consistently good and tangy. The family really loves it. Thanks to a lovely friend, we have 50 meat birds to raise! So humbling and grateful for that gift!
January can be a depressing month so I needed to end this reel with one of my favorite parts of the day, releasing the feathers! Hope this brought a smile to your face.