Hey there, I'm Annie!
I’m here to help you cut through the noise and actually figure out chickens, gardening, and homesteading—without the overwhelm, guesswork, or Pinterest perfection pressure.
Midwest girlie
I didn’t grow up on some Pinterest-perfect homestead. I grew up in South Dakota, where real food came from someone you knew and "slow living" wasn’t a trend — it was just life. These days, I live tucked into the Idaho mountains, raising birds, building off-grid systems, and figuring it out as I go. I'm not fancy. I'm just resourceful, stubborn, and not here to be told by the FDA what's "safe."
Green Thumb Guru
If I’m not out wrangling chickens or hauling buckets, I’m probably elbow-deep in the garden. I grow what I eat because I don’t want produce that’s been sprayed, picked before it's ripe, shipped, and stored for weeks. Give me dirt under my nails and heirloom seeds over sterile grocery store shelves any day.
Community Builder
I’m not interested in chasing followers — I’m here to build something real. Whether it’s helping you automate your coop, decode your chicken’s weird behavior, or learn why your towels feel crunchy (hint: it’s your detergent), I create tools and content that actually help. I believe in local connections over internet likes, and if I can help you grow your first garden or raise your first flock, that’s a win in my book.
Why Trust ME
Because I’m not here to sell you a fantasy — I’m living the real thing.
I didn’t grow up doing this. I learned the hard way: one frozen waterer, failed garden, and rogue chicken at a time. I built my homestead from scratch in the Idaho mountains, off-grid and off-script — with a grow room inside and almost 100% chemtrail-proof greenhouse outside (yes, really).
I don’t gatekeep. I share exactly what’s worked for me — from mealworms to meat birds, soil hacks to coop automations — because you deserve more than half-baked advice from someone who’s never actually hatched a chicken.
I’m not a guru, I’m just saying what everyone’s thinking: the system’s broken, and growing your own food is the most radical act of rebellion we’ve got left.
So if you want someone who gets it — someone who’s walked through the overwhelm and figured out how to make this lifestyle doable (and actually fun) — you’re in the right place.
Let’s grow something real.
Why choose my course
Because Googling every chicken question at midnight isn’t a strategy.
My "Hatch to Harvest" course is the guide I wish I had when I started — no fluff, no filler, just straight-up answers and hard-earned experience. It's for people who actually want to raise their own meat birds without the overwhelm, confusion, or sugar-coated nonsense.
Inside, you'll get step-by-step instructions for everything from setting up your brooder to harvesting clean, healthy meat — ethically, confidently, and with your sanity intact. Whether you're brand new or just tired of piecing together info from a bunch of random YouTube videos, this course will walk you through it all — start to finish.
You don’t need to be a full-blown farmer to raise your own food. You just need someone who’s done it, messed it up a few times, and figured out what actually works.
I made this for the everyday homesteader who’s ready to do things differently — because raising your own food shouldn’t be complicated. It should be common sense.
What problems can I solve
You’re here because you want real answers from someone who’s lived it — the good, the bad, and the broody.
If you’ve ever felt…
Overwhelmed by chick care and unsure if you're doing it "right"
Confused about coop setup, predator protection, or how to keep things clean
Frustrated with all the conflicting info about raising meat birds ethically
Grossed out by store-bought chicken and ready to take control of your food
Tired of wasting time searching through YouTube videos and Facebook groups
I’ve got you.
I’ll walk you through every part of raising chickens from hatch to harvest with clear, practical steps — no jargon, no guilt-tripping, no fluff. Just real help from someone who’s done it off-grid, on a budget, and without a team of farmhands.
This isn’t about being perfect. It’s about learning, doing, and feeding your family real food with real confidence.
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They've Been Trying to Control the Weather Since 1891
They've Been Trying to Control the Weather Since 1891
Most people hear the word "geoengineering" and immediately write it off. It sounds futuristic. Conspiracy-coded. Unreal. Our government would never do something so evil, right?
But what if the real story isn't about the future?
What if it's about the past?
Because here's something most people don't know: humans have been trying to influence the weather for well over a century. Not in theory. Not in secret. In the public patent record.
And once you see the timeline, you can't unsee it.
It starts earlier than you'd think
In 1891 — the same decade people were still traveling by horse and buggy — an inventor filed a patent with the United States Patent and Trademark Office titled "Method of Producing Rain-Fall."
That was 1891. (!!!)
By 1913 there was a patent called "Rain-Maker." By 1919, inventors were patenting processes for causing precipitation by manipulating aqueous particles in the atmosphere. By 1927, there were patents for producing smoke clouds from moving aircraft.
This wasn't fringe science. This was documented, filed, and publicly recorded experimentation.
A century of patents — in three eras
Early era · 1890s–1940s
Rainmaking, fog, and smoke. Early patents focused on producing rain, dispersing fog, and generating smoke screens. By 1915, there were even patents for protecting against poisonous gas in warfare. The atmosphere was already being seen as something that could be manipulated.
Mid-century · 1950s–1970s
Cloud seeding goes mainstream. This is where the volume explodes. Patents for cloud seeding, fog dispersal, weather modification, and atmospheric particle control multiply rapidly. Cold War interest in environmental control accelerates the research. By 1962, there were patents for "artificially influencing the weather." By 1971, for "weather modification method."
Modern era · 1980s–present
Scale and sophistication. Patents shift toward satellite-based concepts, aerosol technologies, ionosphere manipulation, and climate intervention. In 1987, a now-famous patent — often called the HAARP patent — described a method for "altering a region in the earth's atmosphere, ionosphere, and/or magnetosphere." In 1991, there was a patent for "stratospheric Welsbach seeding for reduction of global warming." By 2023, there are systems for programmable climate control panels and electromagnetic weather modification.
In total, the compiled patent record runs from 1891 all the way to 2023. Hundreds of patents. Publicly filed. Publicly searchable.
This isn't theory. It's documented experimentation — across six generations.
At what point does capability become the question?
There's an important distinction worth making here, and I want to be honest about it:
There's a difference between documented weather modification — like cloud seeding, which is openly used today to increase rainfall in drought-stricken areas — and large-scale, coordinated climate control that's harder to verify or track.
I'm not here to tell you which claims are true and which aren't. That's not the point of this post.
The point is this: when we spend over 130 years trying to influence the atmosphere, the question shifts. It's no longer "Is this possible?"
The question becomes: how far has it gone?
And that's a question worth sitting with — regardless of where you land politically, scientifically, or spiritually.
Why this matters on the homestead
For those of us growing food, raising animals, and trying to live closer to natural systems, this history feels personal in a way it might not for everyone.
We pay attention to weather differently. We notice patterns. We watch the sky, track the seasons, and feel it in the garden when something is off.
I'm not saying that awareness makes you paranoid. I think it makes you awake.
And honestly? This is one of the reasons so many people are coming back to:
Growing their own food
Building resilience into their homes and land
Paying attention to their local environment
Asking questions instead of outsourcing answers
Not out of fear. Out of awareness.
Most people are still arguing about whether weather modification is real.
Without ever looking at the timeline.
Over a century of patents.
Decades of experimentation.
And a question that still doesn't have a clean answer:
What are we actually capable of now?
I don't have all the answers. I don't think anyone does. But I'd rather ask the question out loud — from the homestead, with my hands in the soil — than pretend the history doesn't exist.
Do your own research. Look up the patent record. Form your own opinion.
That's all I'm asking.
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