Higher Grounds Farm

07/05/2024

https://youtu.be/exNvvvxHCVo

This video should have uploaded before the last coop video, sorry y'all!!! But here we are getting the easy clean up floor put down and getting a coat of pri...

06/28/2024

Video link is in the comments 👇👇👇

06/21/2024

https://youtu.be/XyHk8Y74jPg

Today we get the mobile chicken coop ready for the chickens to move in. It's not completely finished, but we can get them out of the garage. 💥Follow us on ...

06/14/2024

https://youtu.be/TvkzSeR8ZNg

Watch us transform this drab flower bed into what we hope will be a beautiful red, white and blue cottage garden design! See what perennial flowers were used...

06/07/2024

Weekly video is up! Link is in the comments!

06/01/2024

Here is our latest video!

Out with the old floor! Getting the mobile chicken coop one step closer to moving the chickens in!💥Follow us on Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/profile.p...

05/25/2024

You have got to see this video! Kind of a lengthy video for us but it’s worth watching till the end!!

A day well spent at G&G Farms learning how to trap nuisance predators. Bringing that knowledge home and setting our first dirt traps on our homestead. https:...

05/17/2024

New Video Uploaded! Link below👇🏻

Our goats are going to love their new milk barn! 💥Follow us on Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/pr...

05/11/2024

Beautiful Northern Lights over Alabama last night!

05/11/2024

Check out our newest upload! Link Below👇

Follow along with us on our new mobile chicken coop conversion. And a sad day on the farm as tragedy strikes.💥Follow us on Facebook- https://www.facebook.co...

05/07/2024

Well….they ain’t lying!🤣🤣🤣

05/05/2024

Check out our latest video!!

We traveled a couple hours down to Petals from the Past in Jemison AL to meet a lot of the Youtubers we watch all the time. It was an excellent day. Petals f...

04/06/2024

The big girl squad getting to play today!

03/25/2024

Get those Easter baskets ready with freeze dried candy!! Even the grass is edible! Message to order. $8 each. These will be in the silver bags.

12/21/2023

🎄Come see us tonight and visit out town square. Don’t forget your freeze dried candy for stocking stuffers!!🎄

11/23/2023

From our house to yours! Happy Thanksgiving!💛🧡

11/20/2023

Vote for sweet Eleanor!!! Just “like” the picture. ✔️👍🏻

Introducing: Eleanor Head
Division: PETITE MISS
From: Alabama

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Eleanor says: “Alabama the Beautiful” - I am proud to live on a family farm where I’m able to experience the beauty of Alabama daily and contribute to agritourism in our state by growing crops which I sell at our local farmers market. Our family loves supporting other agritourism farms throughout the year, from picking strawberries, peaches and sunflowers in a Chilton County to our favorite Pumpkin patch and Christmas Tree farm in Tuscaloosa. Agritourism allows us another way to support farmers directly!

11/18/2023

THOSE EARS 🤪😆

Let's do something FUN! Let's flood everyone's news feed with cuteness & joy by doing a "Those Ears" collab. You don't have to be a social media creator to join in, this is for everyone. On your page, post your farm animal or pet with the cutest ears. Use the hashtag & be sure to tag us too.

I'm asking our friends to join in the fun & share pics! G&G Farms, Chestnut Hills Farmstead, Snead’s Farmhouse Sanctuary, Just Dig It Farms, Our Brown Farmhouse, Finally Home In Bama changing to Generations Homestead, Anw Mini Farm

11/17/2023

Ethel had her baby early this morning!!

11/03/2023

Ethel is beginning to show signs….how long will it be?!?!?

10/15/2023

♥️

Your worth is not measured by your productivity.

I’m not sure who needs to hear this today, but it is something I need to hear fairly often.

Today I was very productive. I mean, it was one of those days when you break through blocks you’ve been hitting for weeks and are energized by the work.

But now the work day is over, and as I wrap things up for the day I’m reminded of all the work for tomorrow and next week and the rest of the month and the rest of the year. Living on a farm has taught me that there is always more work to do. This certainly applies to my “real” jobs as well. There is always more work to be done.

I love the work I do. I love the people I work with and serve through my work. But if it is only about getting the work done, I’m doomed for failure and wasting an awful lot of precious time (not to mention the emotional currency involved).

I feel blessed to have come to this understanding relatively early in life.

My worth is not measured by my productivity.

I’m not sure we can measure our true worth at all. But I know when I feel my value expressed and realized.

My value is realized when I see my little girl smile.
My value is realized when my wife and I are sitting on the couch late at night laughing (or early in the morning whining about having to start the day).
My value is realized when someone who has been hurt by the Church lets me be there in the grief with them or join their far superior dance party without asking me take off my clerical collar.
My value is realized when I’m with my parents and siblings and nieces and nephews and grandparents and all manner of in-laws and might-as-well-be-family folk.
My value is realized when I stop working in the garden long enough to watch the goats playing & birds catching bugs off the top of the pond or when I take a deep breath and look up at the night sky, both of which bring about that profound feeling of connection to creation.

My worth is not measured by my productivity.

Neither is yours.

Whether you take a step forward or a few steps back today, you are worth so much more than those steps or where they take you. The world is a better place because you are in it. I’m glad you are here. Sit down. Let everything fade away for a minute. Take a breath. Watch the birds, or the clouds, or the stars, or the people around you (ok maybe don’t watch them too closely). Feel that unbreakable connection to it all.

And remember,

Your worth is not measured by your productivity.

Zac - Head Family Farm

09/25/2023

The Great Fall Garden Festival Meet and Greet Sept. 2023

09/23/2023

This weekend our daughter in love and I went to a wonderful event at our friend's place at Alabama Eden. She has a beautiful place there with a cute little f...

09/18/2023

The ugly truth about REAL homesteading…

Our kitchens are messy! There is dirt on our floors, there's junk in our yards; the grass isn’t always cut. If one area looks clean it’s probably because another has fallen short.

The projects are never, ever complete…

We're busy like you can't even imagine, and we're usually covered in dirt and sweat.

Most days it just seems like we can’t catch up.

Often times it’s overwhelming; but somehow, we love it and just can't get enough..

Our life isn’t perfect, but it has perfect moments. ♥️

09/15/2023

Red out for his morning stroll.

09/05/2023

🌞Good morning sunshine!!🌞

08/29/2023

Don’t mind us. Just taking our morning walk!!

08/15/2023

Forget candlelight dinners! 🌅Dinner by sunset is better!