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Tilly'sFamilyFarm

@tillysfamilyfarm

A small hobby farm in rural northern MN. Follow along for updates on what is happening at our small homestead!

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Tilly'sFamilyFarm
@tillysfamilyfarm May 23, 2023, 2:10 AM UTC

something different...

Things have not slowed down around here on the hobby farm. Chicks have been showing up, and...growing up to be the chickens we all want them to be. Egg layers mostly. Rabbits have been bred, kindled…

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Tilly'sFamilyFarm
@tillysfamilyfarm Mar 26, 2023, 11:17 PM UTC

Are you a bird-person?

One of the things that has been missing on our little hobby farm is birds. Chickens in particular. We had them a few years ago, but lost our flock to a pair of foxes and some dogs from the local neig…

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Tilly'sFamilyFarm
@tillysfamilyfarm Mar 20, 2023, 10:01 PM UTC

Spring is here!

Update time: Well, according to the calendar it is now spring. In reality? It's not spring. Not yet. Not even close. We still have about 2 to 3 feet of snow on the ground. (more coming tomorrow night…

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Tilly'sFamilyFarm
@tillysfamilyfarm Feb 28, 2023, 9:38 AM UTC

Flip Flop, it's a Lop...

We started out raising a couple rabbits for our own meat. I even made the choice of not raising pet stock breeds for the past few years. In fact, we got well away from anything that would be a pet ty…

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Tilly'sFamilyFarm
@tillysfamilyfarm Feb 23, 2023, 3:05 PM UTC

So much to do

My better 3/4 posted up a new video on Youtube. Normally we try to keep the content here on Hive, or even on D.tube. However the length of the vid was causing some upload issues. Oh well. Some highli…

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Tilly'sFamilyFarm
@tillysfamilyfarm Feb 22, 2023, 5:01 PM UTC

GPU Mining

Years ago I was kinda bummed that I did not have the right hardware to get into mining. Bitcoin was young, and nobody knew what the heck to do with it. I thought about diving into the project myself,…

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Tilly'sFamilyFarm
@tillysfamilyfarm Feb 17, 2023, 4:29 AM UTC

Instant Bunny Barn

Two summers ago we realized that the demand for rabbits had reached a critical point. We didn't have the room for more critters, but we had a need and a demand for more. And we were getting tired of…

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Tilly'sFamilyFarm
@tillysfamilyfarm Feb 14, 2023, 12:32 AM UTC

I didn't expect THAT

One of the things we do almost every year is bale hay. Some years it's decent, other years it is just trash. I have been slowly improving the soil in our field each year. I hate the idea of having to…

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Tilly'sFamilyFarm
@tillysfamilyfarm Feb 11, 2023, 11:25 PM UTC

Hairy winter pigs? YEP!

Piglets on the Farm We have been raising bunnies on our farm now for several years. Over the years we have met fellow hobby farmers as they come out to our homestead and pick out their new rabbits. S…

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Tilly'sFamilyFarm
@tillysfamilyfarm Feb 9, 2023, 3:57 AM UTC

Sometimes It Works Out...

One of our does had and unusually large litter of kits last summer. She had so many babies, that she couldn't feed all of them. In fact, all of the does had larger litters, so we couldn't foster kits…

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