Our Maker's Acres Family Farm

Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands, just as we commanded you. - 1 Thessalonians 4:11

Thursday, September 10, 2026

Copper for the Goats

Goats can be tough to manage. Around this time of the year, you can notice their coat becomes dull instead of its normal shiny appearance. ...

Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Waiting on Fall to Get Here

As I was out walking yesterday evening, I was doing some thinking. I don't know if it's like it where you live, but this summer has...

Monday, September 7, 2026

Soil Cover - An Important Consideration in Soil Health

Covering the soil is one of the most basic things you can do in soil conservation. If you walk in the woods, you always see the ground cove...

Sunday, September 6, 2026

Bottling the Summer 2026 Honey Harvest

It was high time we get the honey out of the five gallon buckets and into jars as we're out of the 2025 summer and fall crop of honey. ...

Thursday, September 3, 2026

The Masked Bandit

A couple of month's ago, I re-read "Where the Red Fern Grows," a great novel about 10 year old Billy Colman and his two coon d...

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

The Predator Becomes the Prey

A while back we lamented the fact that we lost 39 hens to mink. Those critters savagely slaughtered our egg layers. It was only after I ki...

Monday, August 31, 2026

Boot Hill

This morning walking out to the barn at 6 AM something caught my eye by the firewood stacked up. I thought it was a dead chicken. How coul...

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Kyle Sonnier: Jennings, Louisiana, United States; Join our family on our daily journey toward Biblical Agrarianism.

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