
Creating Arcadia at Stover Creek Farms
Building up a Homestead, ranch, home and family


Mama’s Pumpkin Bread
Fall time is for warm homes with the baking smell of spiced pumpkin. I love this season and bringing in all the good feels of harvest.

Wind River Bridge
Wind River Bridge takes you to the Gospel Hump Wilderness and to Idaho Centennial trail #88

Black Magic Canyon of Big Wood River
I am starting a series of places to visit in Idaho. Check out all the reviews in my categries under “Visit Idaho” Black Magic Canyon of Big Wood River State Hwy 75, Shoshone, ID 83352 https://maps.app.goo.gl/KP5V9rjGLAafEP5p6 Black Magic Canyon has the Big Wood River flowing through it for […]

Building footers for our barn
Here is a video to walk you through the process of the footers of our barn. Footers are the pillars in the foundation of your structure. It is the anchor to your building. We are building a 120 x 80 foot Barn. Check out how we laid out […]

Goating around on the Ranch
Join us on the ranch for a evening feeding goats

Put up a field fence
Family time working and making a perimeter of fencing around our 100 acres to help the animals stay on our property.

Making a driveway
With a blank canvas, natural resources, a tractor and a dump truck we built ourselves a driveway. We put in about a half mile of driveway with a rock base from a quarry on our own land. With a rock base your a lot less likely to sink […]

Building a Shed with milled lumber
We decided to build a storage shed instead of paying for storage somewhere else. With the great advantage of having a log mill on the ranch my husband and his dad were able to cut all of their own boards from the trees on the ranch. So this […]

Starting our Homestead while camping with our family
Our camping adventure: How we did it and why