This is the first installment of the new MHF blog category “Never Thought We’d Do That”. You see, since we moved to the farm 5 years ago, there have been many things we’ve done that we never imagined we’d have (or want) to do. I thought it would be fun to start sharing those things with …
I just closed the store for the day, put another log on the fire and sat down to watch Sense & Sensibility while I work on our 2013 marketing plan. Sounds like a fun Saturday night, huh? Lest I sound like too much of a bore, last night was fun. We took a llama and …
Recently, we decided to start giving our new goats biblical names. This year we gave our goats names beginning with the letter “A”; next year we’ll do “B” and continue going on down the alphabet. Since Violet was the first of our goats to give birth this year, we named her silver baby boy Adam …
Yay! We’re so excited to see that our new addition to the farm has been completed. We started building the pavilion in the beginning of April and finished it on May 8th. Now we have a nice shaded area for tours and birthday parties complete with lights and fans for those hot summer days and …
Brett came into the store and stopped to chat for a few minutes with me and sat down in one of the chairs which had Angela’s beautiful crocheted purple shawl on the back of it. When he left, neither of us noticed that her shawl had disappeared. He came in a few minutes later saying …
Come in and check out our locally made products. This display features our products made in VA and TN.
Bees… that’s what! Our friend, Debbie Clayton, came over Saturday and helped Brett install bees in our first hive. I showed up just after the installation with the camera. We purchased 3 pounds of bees. It sounded like there was a fan running in the hive. We can’t wait to get honey but we’ve learned …
We’ve been working diligently to get the farm ready for educational farm tours. Everything came together Friday when we hosted 63 K – 3rd graders for our first tour. The children had a great time learning how a sweater is made, from the goat to the garment. Here’s a virtual tour: Setting up our nearly completed pavilion …
It seems like forever since I wrote my last post. I wished I liked writing – I’m sure I’d post more if I did! I do post regularly on Facebook; you can follow us at http://www.facebook.com/MountainHollowFarm. A lot has been happening here at Mountain Hollow Farm since my last post 7 months ago. We are still …
It’s a slow morning in the store and there are about a dozen things I should be doing other than writing this blog post, but we’ve had a couple very special visitors this week that I can’t wait to tell you about. On Saturday, Cornie Belle McCloud stopped in the store. She is the daughter …