Iron Oak Farm

Starting Seeds Indoors with Grow Lights

noreply@blogger.com (Jennifer Sartell) — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:36:00 +0000

Last week Zach and I set up a system in our sun-room to start many of our vegetable plants. For years I've started seeds in a sunny window, only to have them stem out, pale and leggy, straining for...

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Community Chickens Series on Incubating

noreply@blogger.com (Jennifer Sartell) — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:21:00 +0000

Hi everyone! Sorry about my lack of blogging on the Iron Oak Farm page, but I've been working on a series of incubating posts for Community Chickens. Hopefully this helps provide some information as...

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Incubating Advantages

noreply@blogger.com (Jennifer Sartell) — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:45:00 +0000

Check out my latest Community Chickens post, the first in a four part series on Incubating. Incubating Advantages

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Hatching Eggs

noreply@blogger.com (Jennifer Sartell) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:22:00 +0000

Hi All! It's that time of year again! We've started separating the different breeds of chickens to cleanse the lines and get ready for hatching season. We will be offering hatching eggs again this...

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Moving the Coop, 40 Chickens, 40 Miles West

noreply@blogger.com (Jennifer Sartell) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:16:00 +0000

Check out my new Community Chicken's article where I share a story very near and dear to my heart. Moving the Coop, 40 Chickens, 40 Miles West.

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Fiery Friday - Aluminum Chisel Plate

noreply@blogger.com (Jennifer Sartell) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:22:00 +0000

Today I'm going to show you how to make an aluminum chisel plate that can be re-used over and over again. For about a year I've been using a piece of aluminum about 6 inches long, 2 inches wide and...

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Great Blog Alert! Meet Yarn Nerd

noreply@blogger.com (Jennifer Sartell) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:47:00 +0000

I wanted to share one of our customer's blogs with all of you. She is a very talented fiber artist and has a new blog full of wonderful fiber tips, techniques, and some of the most beautiful hand...

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Feeding Time Problem Solved

noreply@blogger.com (Jennifer Sartell) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:40:00 +0000

If everything is going according to plan, (which doesn't always happen around here, but none the less...) Knit and Purl should be pregnant by now. As I've been told by several people, including our...

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Sewing Project, Flat Sheet Curtians

noreply@blogger.com (Jennifer Sartell) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:02:00 +0000

I've been on a mission to find curtains for our bedroom. Just plain, white, cotton, curtains. I didn't think this would be a hard venture, but I was wrong, so very wrong. White sheers, now that's...

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Thinking Outside the Pot

noreply@blogger.com (Jennifer Sartell) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:01:00 +0000

I happened upon a cute little store the other day called the Weed Lady. Her store was like a breath of fresh air in the dull and dreary gray months of winter. The shop has a great collection of...

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New Products!

noreply@blogger.com (Jennifer Sartell) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000

We've been sooo busy lately. But...we have some new products out that I hope you'll all enjoy. The first is our new line ~Live Simple~ Farm Tee's! We create the designs, make the screens and...

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Waiting for the Bees

noreply@blogger.com (Jennifer Sartell) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:17:00 +0000

I was going to wait to share this with everyone until spring, but I just can't, I swear I'm like a little kid sometimes, can't keep a secret to save my life. I got Zach a hive and supers to start his...

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Screen Printing

noreply@blogger.com (Jennifer Sartell) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:03:00 +0000

Zach and I had our first go at screen printing the other night. It is SO MUCH FUN! Seriously addicting, and since I know what can be done, my brain hasn't stopped thinking of designs and ideas. I've...

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Troll Owls, Meet Waldorf

noreply@blogger.com (Jennifer Sartell) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:40:00 +0000

I love owls, and I've been messing around lately with some different materials, some from nature, some not, but rustic none the less, and I've started making these Troll Owls. I came up with the name...

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Summer Citrus in January

noreply@blogger.com (Jennifer Sartell) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:51:00 +0000

It's springtime in our sun-room! The winter sun beats through a crisp blue sky and warms our new dwarf citrus trees, and the sweet little things aren't any the wiser that it's a "balmy" 35 degrees...

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100% Mohair Roving

noreply@blogger.com (Jennifer Sartell) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:34:00 +0000

The new roving is available for purchase! I am extremely excited about the quality of this batch of roving. It has an incredible luster and spins like a dream because the girls were a little longer...

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Open Faced Egg Salad Sandwich with Dill and Avocado

noreply@blogger.com (Jennifer Sartell) — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:24:00 +0000

Check out my latest Community Chicken's post Open Faced Egg Salad Sandwich with Dill and Avocado.

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Good Read: The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

noreply@blogger.com (Jennifer Sartell) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:17:00 +0000

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan takes the reader through four major systems of the human food chain. The Industrial Food Chain, the Organic Industrial Food Chain, the "Beyond Organic" Chain...

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Iron Oak Farm Suffers a Great Loss

noreply@blogger.com (Jennifer Sartell) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:00:00 +0000

I've been trying to find a way to share this, and many times I've simply deleted the post and thought I would just write it another day, but sadly, we lost our Ceddie to cancer last week. His...

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Liebster Award from Skin Care for Your Soul

noreply@blogger.com (Jennifer Sartell) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:02:00 +0000

I want to thank Skin Care for Your Soul for awarding me with the Leibster Blog award! Skin Care for Your Soul is an awesome and informaive blog about natural skin care, using herbs, plants from...

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Winter Comes to Iron Oak Farm

noreply@blogger.com (Jennifer Sartell) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:00:00 +0000

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Good Read: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbera Kingsolver

noreply@blogger.com (Jennifer Sartell) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:10:00 +0000

Hi everyone, I'm back! My computer has been on the fritz and I couldn't access any of my images. Looking into getting an external hard drive after the holidays, but Zach has my computer in working...

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Rooster Home

noreply@blogger.com (Jennifer Sartell) — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:50:00 +0000

I have a friend who is looking to re-home a beautiful PET Auraucana rooster. It's from Iron Oak Farm breeding stock. If you're local and interested let me know, and I will pass on the information.

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All Grown Up

noreply@blogger.com (Jennifer Sartell) — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:42:00 +0000

Remember the Lavender and Sussex chicks that my broody hen raised this past winter/spring? Thought you all would like an update. From this... To this... and this... The rooster...

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New Additions!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Jennifer Sartell) — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 03:36:00 +0000

Today we brought home two new additions! Sulley our strapping Angora buck who is 1 1/2 years old with a beautiful fleece of glistening tight curls, and Josiah, a very large, very gentle whether. I...

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