“This year, the farm jam is on Saturday, August 3rd. Come camp and enjoy music. Directions can be found https://smallprairiefarm.com/contact-location/ or Google: Malcolm Rice’s farm. Hope to see you there.” We usually have a lot of fun! We have chickens busting their butts making eggs. We provide supper for the night (burgers and hotdogs). BRING Read more about FARM JAM 2024- A message from Malcolm[…]
The 2023 summer season again was filled with grasshoppers. We started building above-ground planters so that we could cover them and keep them higher up. So here are pictures of the cactus garden and strawberry garden. We also put in 100 or more trees from Shand Greenhouse. Every year we get some for our shelter Read more about Small Farm Pictures 2023[…]
Sunflowers everywhere in the garden- 2021 We planted ornamental sunflowers one year to attract bees and now they are an invasive weed. This year we tried to use them as a wind block to the garden. They soaked up more water than prevented water evaporation. Now they are a pretty weed in our garden. Kelly Read more about Garden 2021- The Sunflower take-over[…]
WINDMILL AND SOLAR TRAIL CAMERA The Windmill turns on a windy day and charges the battery. On a sunny day the solar panels send a charge over to the battery. The battery then sends power over to the inverter. The plug you see in the inverter runs the camera, Nest cam. This way we can Read more about Windmill Project[…]
Spring 2020 is in on a confusing roller coaster ride With Covid19 we all started the season early. The more we could get out to the farm the better. Whether Malcolm’s fixing the truck, Tania’s family is out hiking or Kelly’s recluse to her camper the farm acted like a getaway for all of us. Read more about Spring 2020[…]
This summer (2018) Some produced…and some didn’t produce We’ll never plant Tiny Tim tomatoes again. What a nuisance. So many tomato skins to peel off. Carrots produced a lot! So did zucchini, pumpkin and beans..of course. Kelly always manages to get some canning done including this year Kelly and Jeffs Apple Butter/ Jam thanKs to Read more about 2018 Garden[…]