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darkwaterranch
Dec 25, 20241 min read
Trampoline to Tunnel
Homesteading and farming quickly teach you to be thrifty. We needed more hoop houses, also known as tunnels, but the costs add up...
darkwaterranch
May 25, 20241 min read
Load Em Up Move Em Out: Rotational Grazing
Changing new pastures on a regular basis, also known as rotational grazing, can be beneficial for goats, pastures, and soil health. This...
darkwaterranch
May 6, 20241 min read
Hydroponic Fun
Hydroponics is a fun extra for us around the farm. We grow most everything we grow out in the field, garden beds or hoop houses. We do...
darkwaterranch
Apr 28, 20242 min read
Market Trailer
If you have ever set a canopy on a windy Oklahoma day you will get the importance of building a Market Trailer. The number of canopies we...
darkwaterranch
Apr 25, 20242 min read
Spring On The Farm
Spring on The Farm
darkwaterranch
May 3, 20232 min read
Make It Work
We changed our plans for the cantaloupe patch and didn't really have the time to wait on the shipment of landscape fabric to arrive....
darkwaterranch
Mar 16, 20232 min read
Our Secret Weapon- Landscape Fabric
We hate to weed, it takes extra time and usually ends in defeat. The amount of ground that we use for vegetable production is much larger...
darkwaterranch
Mar 13, 20232 min read
Ease That Feed Bill With Fodder
What is Fodder? The simple definition of fodder is “food fed to livestock.” Today's discussion about fodder is actually about feeding...
darkwaterranch
Mar 6, 20231 min read
Growing And Moving!
Goat Milk soap is what got us started in opening up to the community through farmers markets. Then the agritourism developed from that...
darkwaterranch
Nov 10, 20222 min read
Resetting a Hoop
Reset Hoop House Strawbale Garden
darkwaterranch
Dec 1, 20211 min read
Hidden In The Farm
Very few people know that living within the boundaries both physical and legal of this farm is another entity, named Black Goat Designs....
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