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

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...

Sunday, August 30, 2026

A Quick Peek at the Fall Starts

Tonight I took a couple of photos of the fall starts that I'll be transplanting into the garden at some point in early to mid September....

Thursday, August 27, 2026

"You Don't Make a Cup, You Build a Pot"

We don't watch a lot of TV at all, but we have a free TV channel called Pluto, and they have all the Gunsmoke episodes on, and we went b...

Monday, August 24, 2026

What We Do With Drawn Comb For The Spring

After we've pulled the capped frames from the hives and upcapped them, put them in the extractor to spin all the honey out, we put the ...

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

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