Calico Cow Acres

We’re Mickayla & Taylor, figuring out how to turn an abandoned farm in North Carolina into home. By day we both work 9–5, and in between we’re fixing up the house, growing food, taking care of animals, and learning the rhythms of the land. Nothing here is polished or perfect—it’s just our slow journey on eight acres, one project at a time.

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New Year’s Q&A video soon - ask any questions you’ve been wondering about in the comments of this post & we’ll answer them for ya❤️

We hope you made some lovely holiday memories!

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Due to the holiday, this week’s video will be coming out a day or two late. I’ve been prepping too much food & haven’t had a chance to edit! We hope you have a lovely day, full tummies, time with friends and family, some good rest & we’ll see ya this weekend with a full pantry tour✨

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Spending the evening getting our food storage area in the basement organized. Look at all those jars 😍 with more to come! Once we wrap up preserving season, I want to do a “pantry” tour & also another “everything I preserved this year” video with numbers✨

What fun stuff are you preserving this year?

5 months ago | [YT] | 187

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Hey pals!

We have some newbies around here lately it seems, and we like to do a Q&A video a couple times a year. With that being said ~ could you pop a question below so we have some good ones to answer? Ask us anything!

We’ll be filming this in a couple weeks, so ask away💕 thank you!

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some of my views on the homestead this week🫶🏼🐓🥦🍓🌱

~ thinned carrots = chicken snacks
~ greenhouse is full of seedlings to share with friends
~ daily duck naps under the wheelbarrow
~ strawberries are comin’ in hot
~ harvesting broccolini, radishes, bok choy, parsley, cilantro, dill, and so many greens right now

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Thought yall might like to see our snowy garden today (for the first time ever since we’ve lived here!)❄️☃️💙

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We always walk our property the day after Christmas & chat about our plans, goals, and ideas for the new year. Today we found a lot more trees down from the hurricane than we’d previously realized!

We’re hoping to do a Q&A video for the new year, could you please give us some fun questions to answer in a comment below this post? 🫶🏼

Upcoming videos:
- 2024 / Year 2 homesteading recap video
- Property tour & talking future plans (maybe I’ll sketch some more ideas on screen?)
- 2025 New year Q&A

Just wanted to share an update since we haven’t been as active with videos lately. Thank yall for watching the most recent one & getting the algorithm to remember us! It helps us so much and we appreciate you💕

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Merry Christmas from us to you! We hope you had a lovely day 💕🎄✨

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Long time no see! We’ve been working behind the scenes on a 2 year update of our home renovation progress. We hope you enjoy💕

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✳️Hurricane Helene Update✳️

Hey all,

Wanted to update you in case anyone was worried. We are safe, our property, spare some big trees in the woods, a bunch of leaf debris, and a whole lotta water weathered the hurricane this morning just fine. Our animals are all safe, although a tad angry they got their breakfast late today😆

We have no power, and likely won’t for at least a couple of days if not longer - but we have no estimates right now. We’ve been cleaning up trees to unblock roads in our neighborhood today, alongside neighbors. Thankfully, it doesn’t look like many landed on homes/cars, mostly just on the power lines & roads.

The weather has let up & it’s sunny right now☀️ so I’ll be walking around the property and filming a video to show you guys what’s up! I’ve been taking little video clips of the storms since last night. Who knows when I’ll be able to post the video - but cross your fingers for us that it’s soon!🤞🏼

Mickayla & Taylor❤️

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