About

Hello! Welcome to Flaming Arrow Farm! 

I'm Goat and I live with my wonderfully handy husband, Wolf, and our daughter, Little Owl. We have always dreamed of having land. It was the main reason we moved to CO from CA in 2011. We hoped to find some property within our price range (not going to happen in CA!) and start our mini-farm. We have finally succeeded in our decade+ long dream and bought 5 acres to call home. Our homesteading journey started 2 years ago with the purchase of 5 chicks and it's only gotten bigger from there.  We now have: 1 cow, 2 horses, 2 goats, 3 dogs, 2 cats, 1 rabbit, and a flock of chickens.

Our goal is to bring a sense of community and local sustainability to our friends and neighbors. We plan to sell all extra produce, milk shares, meat, eggs, and other products at a heavily discounted price in order to allow more people to experience good local foods. We are not trying to make a profit or make a living at homesteading but rather help lower operating costs while helping others who can't do this on their own. We are looking into being a local repository for other homesteaders so customers can have a central place to buy from. We will only deal with other hobbyists, not commercial operations. Staying with the goal of bringing more local products to more people. We hope to also have a classroom where classes on cheese-making, bee keeping, gardening, chicken keeping, dairy animals, etc can happen.

I hope you enjoy going along this journey with us, even if this isn't a witty blog. :)

Some of the things we've made/built so far. 

• beer

• wine

• hard cider

• mead

• lotion

• deodorant

• shampoo

• canned goods

• dried goods

• yogurt

• chicken coop

• chicken coop automated door

• garden beds

• fences

• fireplace

• painted a coffee table

• transformed a dresser into a tv stand
• bought a cow
• bought and built a beehive

Future plans

• Breed Holly (Nigerian Dwarf goat) and add goat milk shares 
• Learn how to make hard cheeses

• Breed some chickens (silkie/EE mixes, Olive Eggers, Crested Cream Legbars, and Black/Blue Copper Marans)

• Add cow milk shares

• Plant some trees

• Build a greenhouse

• Build an aquaponics system

• Build some garden beds

• Build a water catchment system

• Paint the barn

• Build another run for meat chickens

• Build a nice entry fence at the end of the driveway

• remodel the half bath  thanks to the flood for taking care of this for us

• finish painting the interior of the house. Can't wait to get rid of the blue bedroom and maroon kitchen!