We packed our ugly boxes… and WAITED. House papers!!! Wish We Had Acres has MOVED to South Mountain. 5 days later… KEYS!! 5 hours later… we discovered first of 5...

Our successful transfer to the trailer! A HUGE and humble thank you for everyone who spent a half day or more helping us relocate our farm and gardens. We have successfully, and in record time, moved our entire downtown Wish We Had Acres farm to our new home near South Mountain. The hens were moved so smoothly, they appear to show no signs of stress and egg production remains at its peak!! In the words of our keystone coop levitator,...

Wish We Had Acres would love to thank everyone who came out for Tour de Coops this year!  We estimated that 400+ people came by and took a peak at what we were up to and of course many of you had questions about goats.  We were honored with so many intelligent questions and the enthusiasm all of you showed about urban farming and animal husbandry 🙂 For those of you who signed our guest book and left your email we will add you to our blog...

Hey ya’ll it’s been awhile since we’ve posted here…it’s been a busy few months… Some good news for Wish We Had Acres! We applied to be on this year’s Tour De Coops in Phoenix and we were graciously accepted to the tour along with 24 other chicken coop owner’s and farmers.If you’d like the details please check out http://tourdecoops.org/index.htm It is Saturday Dec 3 and the costs is $10 for a...

So it just so happens that one of our suspected hens was a roo so as soon as the suspect was confirmed hew as sold to Pratt’s and in his place a handful of chicks and a turkey was added to the flock bringing our total number of poultry to 20! On another good note we’ve been getting at least 2 eggs a day for the past couple weeks and is a sign that the weather is cooling down a bit and “Arizona Fall” is on the...