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Rock N Root Farm Tour

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It has been a long, cold winter and we are eagerly preparing for spring. We headed on over to Rock N Root Farm for a winter tour and some inspiration on how we can expand our homestead in the upcoming year. We took plenty of pictures so that you can admire the amazing work they do there and hopefully get some ideas yourselves!  After you go down the steep driveway and past their beautiful hand built home, you come across the chicken coop! Their chicken coop is a cattle panel hoop house. They free range their chickens, and you will notice many roosters and hens clucking about with the goats and hanging around the yard.  Right next to their chicken coop is the goat house. This structure is beautiful, made mostly of reclaimed materials (a theme you will notice around the farm- they are VERY resourceful!). If you open the right side of the house you will enter the spacious goat barn.   Here were a couple of cool features that we plan to implement in our