DBARET Farm is a small family hobby farm in South Central Idaho north of the Snake River. Our farm is a closed farm, all barns are closed to visitors for safety, insurance and bio-security reasons. For more information on what this means and why see here. We raise as much of our own food as we can. A HUGE Vegetable Garden, Chickens for Eggs, Dairy Goats for milk, Boer Goats for meat, and Rabbits for fiber and meat, and new this year Herb gardens yes several different garden spaces with different groups of herbs. We preserve as much of our harvest as we can learning new recipes and methods each year. What is not used is composted with the manure to fertilize the gardens. During the spring, summer and into the early fall most all of our animals are raised on pasture, the chicken are truly free range pasture.
We are not completely organic but we are as clean as can be. I don't believe that we can call ourselves organic while the farmers surrounding our property are pouring tons of chemicals on their crops which I am certain drifts to ours. We plant at least one new food plant each year some years one new vegetable, fruit, and herb. We experiment with making cheeses from our milk, ice cream is a huge hit during the summer. Angora rabbits are sheared every 90-120 days for fiber to spin into yarn to weave, knit and crochet into marketable items.
As a family we show our goats and rabbits for the fun and camaraderie. We compete in local fairs with many of our products, including sending fiber arts to national level fiber, yarn, and garment competitions. Rebekah gentled and saddle trained her horse to ride and is now working with her to learn to follow leg commands to be ridden Apache style with no tack except a neck strap. I would like to train the horses and goats to also draw a plow but that is a dream at the moment.
We are not completely organic but we are as clean as can be. I don't believe that we can call ourselves organic while the farmers surrounding our property are pouring tons of chemicals on their crops which I am certain drifts to ours. We plant at least one new food plant each year some years one new vegetable, fruit, and herb. We experiment with making cheeses from our milk, ice cream is a huge hit during the summer. Angora rabbits are sheared every 90-120 days for fiber to spin into yarn to weave, knit and crochet into marketable items.
As a family we show our goats and rabbits for the fun and camaraderie. We compete in local fairs with many of our products, including sending fiber arts to national level fiber, yarn, and garment competitions. Rebekah gentled and saddle trained her horse to ride and is now working with her to learn to follow leg commands to be ridden Apache style with no tack except a neck strap. I would like to train the horses and goats to also draw a plow but that is a dream at the moment.