The Davis Family Collab

Progress is kicking off on our house in the last week🥰 I cannot wait for everyone to hang out on this wrap-around porch 😍

Our flock grew by 5 in the last 2 days, and preparations are being made for Winter Storm Elliott as we quickly acclimated the birds and loaded in our new chicken coop (which got stuck in the mud yesterday). Very excited to get our very first egg last night from the new girls, and working hard to get everyone accustomed to each other before we have to pen them up securely when the storms hit later today ❄️🌨🧊

I have actively been collecting seeds from various farm plants. However if you have extra seeds that you want to pass on, I would love to experiment with them for my 2023 growing season. So far I have been gifted Mexican Sunflowers as well as two varieties of poppies. Spring can't get here soon enough!!! Can we just totally bypass winter 😆?!?

Revival Farms River Valley is now a certified a Bee Friendly Farm!!! With special thanks to the big guy for supporting my bee keeping, always being on hand to help move hives, mow and trim around them, and help me with quick get aways if they get ornery. I am so excited for this designation for the farm and for our family! There is always something new to learn with beekeeping, and I am so thrilled to continue this endeavor at the farm! "Dear Nikki Davis: On behalf of the Board of Directors, scientists, staff, and educators of Pollinator Partnership, I am delighted to congratulate you on your acceptance into the Bee Friendly Farming (BFF) program." I have been wanting this certification since we bought the property, and I am over the moon excited that we met the criteria!!! Woot! Woot!

Just some of our fall pollinators on property 🐝🦋

We have come SO FAR on the studio in the last month. Kudos to Bob and his crew for all of their hard work! Finger crossed 🤞🤞🤞, this weekend might = move in!!! CANNOT WAIT!!!

Have had so much fun this fall experimenting with recipes with our home grown veggies!

Dropping a quick sneak peek of my new logo for art and products created on the farm! Our property has a rugged beauty that I tried to incorporate into the name and branding. More details and info coming soon once we can get moved in and settled!

I am so excited to share that as a result of a suggestion from my post from MON night (thank you Brandi Davis), I have joined https://sharewaste.com/ as a host!!! ShareWaste connects people who wish to recycle their food scraps and other organics with their neighbors who are already composting, worm-farming or keep farm animals. Now YOU can divert organic material from the landfill! Just LMK if you'd like to join the movement of composting and sustainable practices by collabing with me! "[Composting] prevents reusable food waste from contributing to landfills and producing greenhouse gases — though this waste emits methane when buried in a landfill, no methane is produced during composting. Instead, composting produces carbon dioxide. Because of this, composting is an environmentally friendly way to get rid of your food waste and put it to good use by producing more plants."

We will be accepting:
🌱Peels of all uncooked vegetables and fruits
🌱Teabags, tea leaves, and coffee grounds
🌱Egg shells
🌱Dead flowers, dead leaves, and lawn mowings
🌱Shredded newspaper
🌱Straw
🌱Sawdust from untreated wood

Did you know that I was first inspired to compost because of my Grandma and Grandpa Warner? One of my craziest memories of her as a kid was grandma saving egg shells for the garden. In hindsight I realize what it was for as the two of them had the best soil and heaps of worms for fishing!!! Grandpa's worm boxes were the coolest 🪱🪱🪱

Attention local restaurant owners and Facebook friends! Want to learn more about how YOU can compost? Check out this great article: https://www.bhg.com/gardening/yard/compost/how-to-compost Want to make a difference and keep and keep organic waste from contributing to landfills? Let me know! I'd love your compost materials! Details forthcoming on some exciting news!!!! This girl grows worms and is looking for ways to add more (in particular green) materials to her piles, and compost is the perfect way to improve our soil for next spring! You can help! See the list of waste items that I would be accepting. Saw a program like this on TikTok, and I would love to try something on a small scale to work out feasibility and growth opportunity!

My tiny but mighty pollinators are just so adorable yet do such important things 🐝💕

Obsessed with the monarchs passing through this season 😍🙌🦋. Having fun learning more about how we can accommodate them better next year!

Last night's happy harvest 😊