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This is where we pour our hearts out into yours.
Our urban farm life offers our family opportunities to share our gardening discoveries as we enjoy our homesteading.
Farm FRESH PERSPECTIVE
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Kelly Kiki
- May 19
- 4 min
𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋
In 2005, Uganda changed my life forever. I never thought it would, but it clearly put me on a path to this moment. To begin, I need your...
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Kelly Kiki
- Feb 26
- 3 min
𝘽𝙀𝙔𝙊𝙉𝘿 𝙊𝙐𝙍 𝙒𝙄𝙉𝘿𝙊𝙒𝙎 𝘼𝙉𝘿 𝘿𝙊𝙊𝙍𝙎
At the KiKi & CO Family Farmhouse, what is outside often lives inside. From chickens, to geese, to rabbits, to our kids, our home has...
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Kelly Kiki
- Aug 29, 2022
- 4 min
𝐈𝐓 𝐌𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐁𝐄 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄
Please hear my words. To our youth, listen closely. There is a generation of folks that believe in their hearts that they need little to...
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Kelly Kiki
- May 16, 2022
- 2 min
𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇 𝐒𝐇𝐄 𝐓𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐒
I took the day off today to be with Dawn as we came to the painful realization that it was time to say goodbye to Little Pepper. If your...
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Kelly Kiki
- Apr 26, 2022
- 4 min
𝑺𝑯𝑬’𝑺 𝑩𝑹𝑨𝑽𝑬
There is this girl I know that is BRAVE. She is my daughter, Caitlynn. At 18 and a senior in high school, this was the first high school...
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Kelly Kiki
- Apr 19, 2022
- 2 min
𝗥𝗔𝗜𝗦𝗘𝗗 𝗚𝗔𝗥𝗗𝗘𝗡 𝗕𝗘𝗗 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗣: 𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗗𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗖𝗟𝗢𝗧𝗛
Our pallet garden is in its second stage of repurposing. What started as an inexpensive journey creating pallet garden beds has evolved...
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Kelly Kiki
- Apr 16, 2022
- 2 min
𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐃
Sometimes, I don’t feel worthy. Tonight, I dropped Justus off in our old neighborhood in Qualchan Ridge to play basketball with an old...
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Kelly Kiki
- Apr 10, 2022
- 4 min
𝗗𝗔𝗪𝗡'𝗦 𝗦𝗛𝗘-𝗦𝗛𝗘𝗗 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝗜
The Garden During the initial blast of the COVID shutdowns, I focussed my time at home building a vegateable garden. With the help of...
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Kelly Kiki
- Apr 5, 2022
- 2 min
𝗪𝗜𝗟𝗗 𝗩𝗜𝗢𝗟𝗘𝗧𝗦
Walking through your yard this time a year offers little, delicate delights: wild violets. Our farm family love these delights. The geese...
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Kelly Kiki
- Mar 5, 2022
- 7 min
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐨𝐟 a 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐞𝐫 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞
In October 2021, one of our female geese, Pepper, lost the use of her legs for reasons unknown to us and doctors. Here is our story.
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Kelly Kiki
- Mar 3, 2022
- 6 min
𝐂𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞
It has been almost one year since our little farm’s personality took on four—now five—new members. Well over a year ago, my wife, Dawn,...
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Kelly Kiki
- Feb 20, 2022
- 3 min
𝐀 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐃𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐖
This afternoon, I escaped the four walls of my bedroom to take the geese for a walk and to check the maple tree sap buckets. After three...
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Kelly Kiki
- Feb 14, 2022
- 2 min
𝟑𝟎 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄
Kiki & Co. Family Farmhouse was established in 1992. It's unfortunate that we are not born with wisdom, but where is the fun in that. I...
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Kelly Kiki
- Feb 13, 2022
- 2 min
A SEASON CALLED WINTER
As I walk along our little piece of earth on our cold snow-trodden paths created by both human and animal alike, I am in continual wonder...
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Kelly Kiki
- Feb 7, 2022
- 2 min
Backyard Syrup Making
Every day should start with a great breakfast. Well, after making some of the best maple syrup that you have ever poured on your...
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Kelly Kiki
- Feb 6, 2022
- 2 min
Dirty Jobs
A friend of mine mentioned the other day that I should contact Mike Rowe to film an episode of Dirty Jobs at the Kiki & Co. Family...
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Kelly Kiki
- Feb 5, 2022
- 3 min
A Warrior’s Creed: Farm Life
We all need protecting—even the warriors. In times of extreme danger, there are those that run toward it and those that run away. That is...
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Kelly Kiki
- Feb 1, 2022
- 3 min
Sweet Little Farm Guests: School's in Session
One of the great blessings of living on property is sharing it with friends, especially curious children. When friends come with their...
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Kelly Kiki
- Jan 30, 2022
- 4 min
Bee Nice to Everything and Everyone
WHAT MAKES OUR HONEY SWEET? We find our little farmhouse on the edge of Peone Prairie in Mead, Washington. It is here that farm life...
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