Rooted Ridge Homestead

Rooted Ridge Homestead Rooted Ridge Homestead is a veteran-owned, ever-evolving farm focused on sustainability and community.

We offer hands-on agricultural education and strive to live in harmony with the land while inspiring others to grow, learn, and reconnect.

📢 We need your help! We reuse grocery bags when we bring eggs, bread, or other goodies to our customers, and we're runni...
10/31/2025

📢 We need your help! We reuse grocery bags when we bring eggs, bread, or other goodies to our customers, and we're running low! If you're a herdshare holder, egg buyer, friend, or just feel like swinging by to help us out, we'd love it if you could bring us your excess clean, plastic shopping bags in good condition next time you stop out! It would be much appreciated. Thank you!!

Kade. My free rooster from Craigslist. I brought him home when he was a young buck at 8 months old. He led our flock eve...
10/29/2025

Kade. My free rooster from Craigslist. I brought him home when he was a young buck at 8 months old. He led our flock ever since, keeping the other boys in line, and fawning over his favorite ladies, the barred rock hens. Every morning, Kade was by my side for milking - rain, shine, or snow. He was always there. This morning, the rest of the "crew" was there for milking, but Kade was missing. He hadn't been doing well recently. His old age was getting to him. I didn't think I'd get another winter with my sweet boy. And that unfortunately proved to be true today. He's got sons that look just like him - Kane, Kase...and now a daughter. A barred rock pullet with puffy cheeks and the faintest hints of orange speckled throughout her feathers. I'm naming her Kadee in honor of her daddy. I'm going to miss this boy more than I ever thought possible to miss a rooster. There's just no other boys quite like him in our flock. He left some big shoes to fill for our other boys. I love you, Kade.

Working on a project... Can you guess what it'll be?
10/28/2025

Working on a project... Can you guess what it'll be?

October 20th and I've got the windows open while assembling new bee frames. Couldn't ask for a better fall.
10/20/2025

October 20th and I've got the windows open while assembling new bee frames. Couldn't ask for a better fall.

I couldn't be in Wisconsin for the Nekoosa Pumpkin Festival today, but my dad won 8th place with a 1,446.5 pound pumpkin...
10/05/2025

I couldn't be in Wisconsin for the Nekoosa Pumpkin Festival today, but my dad won 8th place with a 1,446.5 pound pumpkin! It's his personal best. The largest pumpkin at Nekoosa was over 2,371 pounds! The current world record is 2,749 pounds. He donates a monster pumpkin to the pumpkin drop every year, where it gets dropped from 100' in the air! Stay tuned for a video of the drop!

Happy Friday! Maisy is here to remind everyone to stay safe and make time for some self care this weekend! 😘
10/04/2025

Happy Friday! Maisy is here to remind everyone to stay safe and make time for some self care this weekend! 😘

Cutest little family, ever. 🥹 And Baby Belle is such a Daddy's Girl. ♥️
10/01/2025

Cutest little family, ever. 🥹 And Baby Belle is such a Daddy's Girl. ♥️

09/30/2025

Just another day...

Our mailbox post got a new paint job recently, and an extra piece of decor today. ☺️
09/16/2025

Our mailbox post got a new paint job recently, and an extra piece of decor today. ☺️

09/15/2025

Update on T: I'm fairly certain he had a tumor in his large intestine. There was a large mass that was blocking everything from moving. Unfortunately, there was likely nothing we could have done to save him. On the bright side, that means it wasn't something that he ate or got into, and it wasn't some sort of illness or anything that could spread to the rest of the herd. It definitely still is a pretty big loss for us. But we'll just give our girls and Loiny an extra hug.

09/14/2025

This week has been a rough one to say the least. It was already a crazy week with trenching in a water line to a couple new hydrants and preparing for our new outdoor boiler to be installed Friday. That came with plenty of its own trials, but as they say - when it rains, it pours. One of our steers, T-Bone, stopped eating on Tuesday morning. I brought him in to the vet Wednesday afternoon, and they treated him for frothy bloat. I gave him some meds over the next couple days to stimulate his rumen, but he still wasn't eating. Saturday morning we brought him back to the vet again. Different vet, didn't think it was bloat. Thought he was just full of hay and needed to process it all through. F***l was negative for parasites and coccidia. They gave him banamine and B vitamins as well as some more rockets to stimulate his rumen. They sent me home with some additional rockets, banamine, and B vitamins to administer Sunday (today) and for the next few days. But T was gone by the time we woke up this morning. 😔 As they say - when you have livestock you have dead stock. This is our first large animal loss, and I'm hoping to get some answers with an autopsy as to what really happened.

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