Start Here!

Welcome to the Shoshin Farm webpage. Our goal is to provide aspiring gardeners and urban gardeners with some information and inspiration. We hope your journey to residential farming, gardening, or homesteading is a joyful and informative one. We are glad to be a stop along that road!

You will find personal articles as well as links to other sources on many topics such as:

  1. Types of backyard gardens and microfarms
  2. The importance of native plants
  3. Pollinators and plants that support them
  4. Chicken-keeping
  5. Becoming a Certified Wildlife Habitat
  6. Resources for activities like sewing, food preservation, fiber arts

We hope you take a few minutes to learn about our start and progress here on our About Us page!

Starting a Garden

(link to blog post)

Keeping Chickens

(link to blog post)

Gentle Bees

(link to blog post)

Lessons Learned

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