Garden
What We're Growing
What is being grown, tested, and planned for the 2027 season.
Strawberries
Albion and Chandler varieties going in toward 2027.
Cut Flowers
Sunflowers, trial varieties, pollinators, and future 2027 sales.
Family Garden
Food for the family and practical growing notes from the farm.
Orchard
Lemon, mandarin, fig, wild plums, pecans, and long-term food.
Herbs & Ground Covers
Culinary herbs, pollinators, living mulch, and soil-building plants.
Journal
The journal is the written record of Shaggy Ink Farms: heritage poultry, garden trials, projects, family food, and what we are learning while getting ready for the 2027 season.
Shaggy Ink Farms
Search and filter the written record as the number of entries grows.
Showing 4 of 4 field notes.
Quick-reference field guide for evaluating Plymouth Barred Rocks against Standard criteria. Covers overall type, head, body, legs, barring, condition, temperament, and common faults. Print it. Take it to the yard.
The Ringlet line, E.B. Thompson, Ralph Sturgeon, and why the birds ranging on three acres in Anderson, California have a documented breeding history most 'heritage' flocks don't.
The opening note from Shaggy Ink Farms: why we started, what we are building, and how chickens, eggs, gardens, flowers, orchard work, projects, and YouTube fit into the family homestead ahead.
Our Barred Rock breeding stock descends from Frank Reese and Good Shepherd Poultry Ranch -- a well-known Standardbred poultry line. Here's why that lineage matters.
Follow The Build
Farm updates, poultry notes, garden work, and project days from Shaggy Ink Farms.
