Dodi Acres Homestead

11/10/2025

Meal prep today, along with a batch of laundry soap, and a fresh batch of kombucha for a nice probiotic hit throughout the days. (I gave away my original when I lived in the camper for the summer)

Do you have a day where you prep for the week?
What do you prepare?

Tell me your secrets!!

10/18/2025

🌿 New from Dodi Acres - Portable Herb Cabinets! 🌿

Our apothecary just got an upgrade ✨
Meet our new portable herb cabinets — the perfect way to keep your herbs neat, organized, and close at hand.

Each cabinet is packed with love (and labeled with care) — ideal for small spaces, herbal blends, or taking your remedies on the road. Whether you’re drying, brewing, or just admiring the beauty of your botanicals, these little stacks make it easy to stay wild and organized at the same time. 🌼

🍃 Handmade & refillable
🌸 Filled with Dodi Acres herbs
🚐 Great for campers, cupboards, and cozy corners

Available now in limited quantities — because good things (and herbs) come in small boxes. 💚

Starting at $49

Customizable

10/09/2025

Hey y'all! I finally made the sign up link for you to receive emails about sales and weekly availability for produce and such!

https://forms.gle/BoWzxJyrq8eknCCe6

I'm not sending newsletters at this time, buy maybe occasionally or in the future I'll get to it.

Submitting this form allows you to be contacted with sales and weekly produce prices for Dodi Acres (Homesteading Heifers)

09/23/2025

🚜🌱 Hey Heifers!! 🐄

After a wild ride these last 6 months, we’re finally moving into the new house this week! 🎉 That means one thing… cold storage is BACK and once we’re settled, the veggie game is officially on again! 🥕🥦🍅

Now I need your help with the million-dollar question:
👉 Do you want caseloads, mixed boxes, or small quantities (with a minimum order)?

📍 Pick-up will be available in Carstairs, Didsbury, and Red Deer at set times.
🚚 Delivery also available between Airdrie and Ponoka (delivery fee applies).

I’m so excited to get back at it and load you up with fresh goodness—so tell me what works best for YOU! 💚

08/30/2025

What is everyone doing on this beautiful weekend?

07/14/2025

🍓🥒 PRESERVING SEASON IS HERE 🫙🔥

At Dodi Acres, the jars are clinking, the pots are bubbling, and the kitchen smells like summer memories sealed tight! There’s nothing more satisfying than looking at a shelf full of home-canned goodness – each jar a little time capsule of sunshine, hard work, and love. 💚

We’re putting up: 🥕 Garden veggies in crunchy brine
🍑 Wild fruits in sweet syrups
🌿 Herbal jellies, pickles, and healing tonics
🧄 Ferments full of gut-loving goodness

Preserving isn’t just about food – it’s about freedom, tradition, and feeding your family even when the garden sleeps.

🫙 Want to learn how to start? Stay tuned – we’ll be sharing tips, recipes, and some of our favorite preserving hacks over the next few weeks!

📸 Show us your canning stash or ask a question below 👇

07/14/2025

🚫🌻 The Truth About Seed Oils 🌻🚫

Most of us grew up thinking vegetable oils like canola, soybean, corn, and sunflower were “heart-healthy” options. But did you know these seed oils are highly processed, inflammatory, and often loaded with oxidized fats that can wreak havoc on your health?

👉 Here’s why it matters:

Seed oils are extracted using high heat and chemicals like hexane.

They’re high in omega-6 fatty acids, which in excess can fuel chronic inflammation.

Many are rancid before they even hit store shelves due to oxidation.

Studies link overconsumption to heart disease, obesity, and even mental health struggles.

💡 Better alternatives
✨ Grass-fed tallow
✨ Organic butter or ghee
✨ Cold-pressed olive oil
✨ Coconut oil
✨ Avocado oil
✨ Duck fat or lard from pasture-raised animals

At Dodi Acres, we’re passionate about old-fashioned nourishment—real food, real fats, and herbal remedies the way nature intended. 🌿

💚 Your body deserves better than lab-made oils. Go back to the basics and thrive.

07/11/2025

🌿 Why We Choose Herbs Over Big Pharma 🌿

At Dodi Acres, we believe healing should start with the 🌍 earth—not a lab 🧪.

While pharmaceutical companies 💊 have their place in emergencies 🚨, they often treat symptoms instead of root causes. Herbal remedies, on the other hand, work with your body—gently, naturally, and with centuries of wisdom behind them 🧘‍♀️✨.

🍃 Benefits of Herbal Medicine:
✅ Fewer side effects
✅ Grown & foraged locally 🌾
✅ Sustainable, affordable & empowering 🌻
✅ Supports immunity 🛡️, digestion 🍋, skin ✨, stress 😌, sleep 😴 & more

We make our own tinctures 🌿, teas 🍵, salves 💧, oils 🧴, and balms 🐝 right here on the homestead—crafted with love and intention 💚 from herbs we grow or wild-forage ourselves.

Let nature be your medicine 🌼

07/10/2025

Welcome to Dodi Acres, a small but mighty homestead rooted in old-fashioned wisdom and hands-on care. Nestled in the heart of Mountain View County, we raise quality rabbits and guinea pigs with love and intention. Our animals are part of our family and raised with kindness, clean living, and purpose.

We handcraft natural soaps, healing salves, balms, tinctures, and infused oils using homegrown and wild-foraged herbs. Every season, we gather what the land offers—drying, blending, and bottling it into herbal remedies made with soul and science. From pantry to apothecary, we preserve the harvest through canning and old-world techniques that keep our shelves (and hearts) full year-round.

At Dodi Acres, we do things the slow, sustainable way—because we believe in self-sufficiency, stewardship, and the quiet power of living close to the land.

07/09/2025

5 little surprise kits were born yesterday to Penny and Stormy

07/09/2025

4 little piggies 🥰🥰 two are pending, 2 more available! Not sexed yet, and will be ready the 2nd week of August