Casey Hust

We all have one… that wish list of projects that we would like to get done this summer. Funny how the list always ends up being longer than what time seems to allow. Anyway, this list is to give you an idea of what is on the front burner and cooking at the Hust Roost […]

Besides producing goods for our produce stand, we also have the goal of being as self-sufficient as possible. This means we want to provide ourselves with as much food and heat (and hopefully some day power) as we can without having to buy them from some other source. In the first few months of my

Last year, we decided that we wanted to let our chickens free range. The benefits of doing this were largely two-fold: the birds and their eggs would be healthier, and we would have to feed them less. We had tried to expand the fences, but our growing flock (we currently have 39 laying hens) would

I know we have been planning on getting bees for quite some time now, but going from planning to get bees to being able to walk up to our hives and watch the little gals zipping in and out are two totally different things. It seems surreal. I can still hardly believe we have three

The last few weeks have been a little crazy. We had an opportunity to get three young goats that we could not pass up… but it was a little earlier than we had initially been thinking. In other words, we had to do a lot of preparation in just a short amount of time. We

We said goodbye to Rochester on Saturday. After months of planning and preparing, the day finally came when Tom and I (Casey) moved down to the Hust Roost. It felt weird driving down and knowing that we weren’t driving back up, and it feels even weirder this morning as I am always back in Rochester

The weather is starting to heat up, and so are the happenings at the Hust Roost. Here is what we have been up to/will be up to in the immediate future: 1) In less than 4 weeks, the young couples (Casey and Rachel, Tom and Hannah) will be moving down! We have been moving stuff

Whenever somebody finds out that I am tapping trees or making maple syrup, their first comment somehow involves the incredible amount of work it takes. More knowledgeable people will mention that it takes an incredible amount of sap to make just a small amount of syrup. I smile and nod. What they are saying is

We have discussed before how it our main goal to follow God in all that we do. We have also discussed how we want to aid and benefit the community as much as possible. These two goals are still very much in the picture, and today I am going paint the future picture of the