Welcome to Yellow Birch Hobby Farm!
Located on 8 1/2 acres in beautiful Northeastern Minnesota, we are a family-run farm who embraces self-sustained living, raising our variety of animals, and sharing our love of a simplistic lifestyle with like-minded individuals. Homesteading has become a way of life for us; a life that promotes hard work and old fashioned ideals in a world that insists we do otherwise.
A primary focus of our farm is on our food, which we procure largely by ourselves through employing permaculture practices in our organic, heirloom garden and by raising and hunting our own meat. Food is prepared from scratch and preserved through canning, freezing, juicing, and dehydrating. We feel an important connection between the food we raise and in turn feed to our family, and we love to share it all with you here.
So feel free to look around and stay a while! Whether we’re discussing the obsessions of canning, weird chicken eggs, harvesting meat animals, or the world of hugelkultur, there’s surely something for everyone here.
Thanks for visiting!
Erin
So I checked out your blog, I’m really impressed! You have amazing recipes and how-to’s…. I’m now an avid reader of your info! I’m really inspired on your methods of life. .
Thanks Erin
Erin my daughter Deena Okibiro knew of you and told me of your blog, this is great as I live on a small farm and want to learn as much as I can, I am glad I found your blog
Hi, Karen! I’m glad you found me too- and I miss Deena! She was always so much fun to work with 🙂 Thanks for stopping by and checking things out, I appreciate it!
Erin
So excited to follow you! We are in the process of buying 5 ac in North Dakota, that I intend to turn into a small hobby farm!
That’s exciting, Natalie! Glad you found me 🙂 Enjoy your journey!
Great job by you and your husband, Erin! I thoroughly enjoyed reading the article on your farm in this month’s Acres. Based on your wonderful results, I am going to take a hard look at using hugelkultur beds in my garden. Keep up the great work!
Thank-you so much, John! Glad you enjoyed the article! And I absolutely love to hear when someone ventures into hugelkultur…I know that it can be scary trying something new. But I know how much I have benefited from hugel beds in my garden and I only wish everyone to acquire such results. Best of wishes to you!
Hi Erin,
Thanks so much for all the useful info re keeping chickens. I am trying to diagnose a smelly egg problem happening with my small flock of Brooklyn hens. I think stock scraps might be the culprit… Hopefully solved now, that was a fairly alarming development durning breakfast this morning! Wow, stinky.
This is such a great picture of you and your hubby! Your farm looks beautiful too! I’m so impressed with your cooking and canning skills. It’s very inspirational. I kind of fell out of love after having to go GF for my hubby and two of our kids. Baking just isn’t the same without gluten and I refuse to use products like xanthum gum!
I am sending this information, hoping it will help you get your website running better. (It always helps to know what the problems are so they can be fixed.)
– Your “I recommend” box is a mess with words printing across other words/pictures.
– When I want to go to a post, it brings up a “Nothing” tab and the page says “Oops! That page can’t be found”.
I hope you can get these things fixed. I may come back another day. Sorry. 🙁
Thank-you for the heads up, Elisa! If it wasn’t for your message, I probably would not have even known this…there was a recent update on the website required that messed with things a bit. I’ve got it fixed now 🙂