Sunset Creek Farms

Welcome to 2021!

Posted on January 4, 2021January 5, 2021 by Ellen Hartstack

We did it! We made it to 2021. I’m sure I don’t have to say this but 2020 has been a rough year. A pandemic, rocked and continues to rock our country and we’ve all made sacrifices and had losses that will forever change us and our country. But 2021 turns over a new leaf,…

Buying Meat Directly from Farm

Posted on August 30, 2020January 5, 2021 by Ellen Hartstack

I wanted to walk through how our experience was at buying our first beef directly from a farm as yesterday’s facebook post got me quite a few messages. So I thought I’d share our experience in the hopes that you too can buy local and support a more sustainable farm to table model.

Welcome to 2020!

Posted on February 1, 2020February 1, 2020 by Ellen Hartstack

Happy (albeit a bit late) New Years! We want to recap some of our adventures from 2019 and share out some of our farm goals this year. When Ben and I first bought our small acreage we came up with a (VERY rough) five year farm plan with our major projects divide up into each…

Adventures with the Prusa – Part 2

Posted on December 12, 2019December 12, 2019 by Ellen Hartstack

Here we walk through the steps we took to configure our printers “Z” heights. Sometimes referred to as the “squish” to get super nice prints!

Adventures with our Prusa

Posted on November 26, 2019February 1, 2020 by Ellen Hartstack

We got a new “farm” setup – a 3D Printer. Learn about our adventures into 3D Printing and some of the (major) pitfalls we faced while learning a new trade. Pretty fascinating bit of tech!

WE GOT EGGS – And a Doug!

Posted on September 6, 2019November 26, 2019 by Ellen Hartstack

We’re excited to share with you our first eggs – and all the colors that go with them! Great job little ladies! <3

Welcome to the McMansion

Posted on July 26, 2019July 26, 2019 by Ellen Hartstack

We discussed all the things we were looking for in a coop in our previous post about Picking a Chicken Coop and how much “fun” it was lugging that huge pallet home in our Getting the Coop Home post. Now let’s look in all the steps to getting this beast setup. First off, the painting….

Our new tractor – Johnny!

Posted on July 18, 2019July 19, 2019 by Ellen Hartstack

Check out our latest blog post all about our new tractor Johnny!

We got our Chicks! Week 4 – 9

Posted on June 25, 2019February 1, 2020 by Ellen Hartstack

I know, I know we’re really cheating on the whole “post per week” thing, but turns out chicks are super cute, then kinda boring until they get their full set of feathers in. They mostly just eat, poop (and poop and poop!) and practice doing chick things. I will say “teenagers” do excel at looking…

We got our chicks! – Weeks 2 & 3

Posted on June 15, 2019February 1, 2020 by Ellen Hartstack

We’re slackers (but work is now better and less busy!) 😉 Our chicks are now almost 12 weeks old, but we did still want to share some of their milestones with you all. Hope you enjoy them! Week two with the chicks and everyone went pretty pretty well. Two of the Cuckoos had a bit…