Who I am:
My name is Kat Murphy. I live on a small farm. I am the butcher, baker and the candlestick maker plus the dairy maid, cheese maker and Momma to a handful of bottle baby goats. I have been writing a blog,
Self Sustained Living, since late 2008. It's a journal of the trials, triumphs, defeats and all around farm living.
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Project Goals:
Through a series of unfortunate events, I find myself without means to keep this farm going. I need your support to run the farm and continue on the path I have started with improving the farm and building a commercial kitchen for the cheeses and baked goods. The new commercial kitchen space will allow me to teach cheese making classes along with bread making and canning seminars and provide me with a steady venue for the skills I can offer to the surrounding community.
This year I have received my food sanitation llicense and my cottage exeption certificate. 2 big steps toward my goal of providing home grown and produced food to my community. Even with all my small successes, I now find myself in danger of losing everything I have worked for. I need your help to keep going for the next 90 days while I search for some sort of outside employment and build the kitchen to create the means for the farm to support itself.
1,200 to make the farm payment
600 to cover the electric use for the farm and my DIY contruction
225 to cover the insurance
240 to cover the water so no animals go thirsty
180 for feed to keep the milk animals producing for cheese making
The storage house has a workable kitchen that can easily be cleaned up and brought to inspection pass levels.![future commercial kitchen]()
I know it looks rough but it's been a workshop of sorts and the house has been used as storage for the past 4 years while it lacked some basic plumbing and a hot water tank. It will be cleaned up, the carpet removed, everything painted and brought up to spec for public health code.
350 for a stove
300 for linoleum
80 for paint
275 for a hot water tank
100 to repair the broken water lines
900 for 2 refridgerators (one for cheese, one for other food products)
I already have the control box and the moisture monitor needed for the cheese cave so I can age the cheeses the required amount of time for public sale.
I know this is a viable goal. The positive response to my products at local farmers markets is more than positive, even with the limitations on what I can offer to the public. The goats milk and cows milk along with the home made cheeses will bring this farm into it's own. The jams, jellies, goats milk soap, hand made whole grain breads already have a niche interest with the surrounding community.
Other Ways You Can Help
Even if you can't help me with a donation, you can still help me keep my farm and make it self sustainable by sharing this link and telling everyone you know about me and asking them to share the link too.
