Kabod Family Farm

October 2023

Welcome to the Farm

“The Lord will guarantee a blessing on everything you do and will fill your storehouses with grain. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you."

Deuteronomy 28:8

Since the beginning of the year the farm here at Machaca has seen amazing growth. Starting off in January with ideas, blueprints, and Holy Spirit downloads, the farm has gone from empty land to a thriving mix of plant and poultry. In the last ten months, Kabod Farm has begun to raise a variety of chickens, starting with Locals which are all hens and will be our egg layers. Then Broilers, these are great because they grow at twice the speed of the Locals and are ready to be sold for meat within a few short months. We also have two roosters, fondly named Mudd and Marcus, and a new batch of chicks who will be ready to join the flock in a month or two. The goal with the chickens is to build sustainability with our own eggs, be able to sell eggs, and to sell chickens for meat.

 Along with chickens we also have a lovely family of ducks, who reside in their pond and spend their days swimming, eating, and sleeping. We have one dark-headed mallard and one beautiful cream-colored female. We have four young ducks that are smaller local ducks. Ducks are great to have around the farm because they will eat all the bugs off of the plants but they won't eat the plants themselves. Equally duck eggs are high in protein and can be sold. We do have about 4 little quail as well and will be expanding that little flock in the future, however, since they run so fast they are a bit hard to capture in a photo. 

One of the most amazing parts of Kabod Farm is the aquaponics system. Since January we have watched this project be built from the ground up, and now it is thriving. Using a generated pump the system circulates water from a large tank and lets it drip into two smaller tanks, effectively oxygenating the water. In the big tank, we have fifty Tilapia that swim freely in their shady tank. In the smaller tanks, we have around 10-15 smaller Tilapia. Excitingly the Tilapia are beginning to multiply and soon we will have even more! With this system, not only are we able to raise fish that can be eaten and sold, but the system will also be able to drain out into the garden beds to water and enrich the plants. When the fish water is drained into the beds, the fish excrement will act as a nutrient for the plants and help them to grow fuller and healthier.

Another project that has seen incredible growth is the greenhouse. We now have three long raised garden beds built and ready to be used. It is a wonderful testimony of how the Lord saw the need for a greenhouse and He provided one. In the next few months, we will be working on planting and getting all of the pipes hooked up so that the aquaponics system can do its job and water the greenhouse.