Quiet Creek Homestead

I’m excited to announce that as of today the puppies are officially ready to leave the homestead! Please reach out! You can take a puppy home today! 2 are spoken for, I have three left. Reach out before the end of Wednesday and we’ll take one hundred dollars off your puppy!

Have you been looking for a new addition to your family? Well, look no further.
6 weeks ago there was a litter of puppies born to the Lady of Quiet Creek and her friend Gatsby. I have three girls and two boys.

These puppies are a Cockalier/Poodle mix. This breed is gentle, intelligent, friendly and playful. They’re great for people with kids, are desperate to please, and are allergy friendly. And these puppies are no different.

Both parents are onsite and are AKC registered. Mom is extremely gentle and patient with the toddler, and Dad enjoys helping to gently corral the chickens and ducks on the homestead.

All puppies are healthy and will be utd on vaccinations and dewormings before coming home with you. They’re not yet registered. They’re all very sweet, playful and loving. They enjoy both going on runs around the property and cuddling on the couch, even with Rosie (our 18-month-old).

If one of these puppies sound right for you or your family, look at their listings linked below to get more information on each one’s special and unique personality. You can also find our contact info there. Please reach out as they are all ready to find their fur-ever family!

We’re located in Battle Creek, MI.
But if you’re a ways away we offer shipping at buyers expense!

https://puppylist.com/user/niara-sykes/

An Open Letter to Tractor Supply Co.:

Oh… Hi, there!

You might recognize me (although probably not). I’m the one who lives just about 2 miles away from one of your stores. My family is in your store quite often actually, at least once a week. Over the years, we’ve probably spent hundreds of thousands of dollars with you. We’re even members of your “Preferred Neighbors” Club.

Well, we were…

You see, I am a Black woman. I have Black children. I have Q***r and Trans children. And thanks to the recent statement you put out, you’ve made it incredibly clear, that WE are not the people you consider neighbors.

TSC, did you know that Black and Q***r people also farm? And homestead? And do lots of other stuff that brings us to your stores? Maybe that’s why you had DEI goals in the first place, DEI goals that you now intend to get rid of…

Does taking care of your customers like they’re family include ignoring our needs? Our struggles? Our life experiences? Does it mean ignoring the particular struggles we face as Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Q***r people LIVING in and CONTRIBUTING to rural America?

Or are you like some of our less welcoming neighbors that have decided that we don’t belong? We certainly can’t be the customers whose values you are intent on representing. I guess the other customer in the store with me that one time…you know the one, with the Ku Klux Klan symbol on his shirt…THAT must be one of the customers whose values you represent.

I imagine you probably thought that it was better to side with white supremacy over diversity because you, like many others, see rural communities as made up of white supremacists making America great again. Great, like when my Ancestors worked as sharecroppers. Great, like when lynching was legal. Great, like before the Emancipation Proclamation left white “farmers” destitute, by removing their main source of wealth, the bodies of my people.

TSC, did you know that some of the first of my people to be brought to this land in chains, were brought because of their agricultural knowledge and expertise? Did you know that Carolina Gold rice wouldn’t be what it is, if it weren’t for the rice farmers in my lineage that white supremacy stole from their lands on the coast of West Africa, where rice production was efficient and plentiful? Did you know that the vast amount of wealth spent in your stores today, was built on the backs of the very customers you’ve chosen NOT to value anymore?

Did you know that more and more of us, the descendants of the Black and Indigenous agricultural experts of this land, are reclaiming our birthrights? That we, who make up the global majority, are returning to the land, and WE are building something new?

Well, that’s ok. I guess it’s not for you to know and understand right now. But you will, one day, as you and your “valued” white supremacist customers start to grow up and mature.

Only then, it’ll be too late.

Too late to save your company. Too late to save dying, self-destructing, self-loathing communities. You’ll figure it out just in time to go down with the ship of white supremacy.

Don’t worry. When you and the legacy you value are no more, we’ll remember you. We’ll invoke your name as a cautionary tale, so that we do not repeat your mistakes.

And most of all, we’ll enjoy our Liberation. Together. As family. As neighbors.

Too bad you’ll be long gone.

Signed,
Your FORMER Customer and Neighbor
A Black, Q***r Farmer

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Couple new additions born here on the homestead last night! ❤️

We’ve been a bit quiet online but a LOT has been happening here at Quiet Creek! In just the last month we’ve added 5 pregnant goats,our new horse Kota, and 2 beautiful peacocks!!

Feels great to have the homestead feeling so alive again :)

Michigan in February is a mysterious and wild demonstration of unexpected weather. Sunshine and a hard frost left all the trees on the homestead with icy spikes. Strangely beautiful :)

The worlds prettiest egg, from our Copper Marans! Nice to see the chickens starting to lay :)

FIRST EGG OF THE NEW FLOCK! Back in July we began rebuilding the livestock on our homestead. We added baby chicks, ducks, guineas, and a very vocal goose lol. After 6 months we have finally received our first egg, and to our surprise: it was a duck egg! Waiting on the chickens to step their game up…

Meet Duke! This is the last little guy left from the recent litter of puppies, born to the Lady of Quiet Creek and her best beau, Gatsby. 💜

Duke is a Cockalier-Poodle mix. This breed is extremely intelligent, friendly, and playful, and this little guy is no exception. Parents are both on site, AKC-registered, have great temperaments, are healthy, and love family time. Dad even helps corral our chickens in the barn without harming them. 🙂

Duke is healthy and utd on vaccinations and deworming. He loves cuddling and playing with everyone around the homestead, from other dogs, to kids, and even Rosie (who’s just 1-year-old now) whom he’s especially sweet with. This little guy will be an amazing pet for someone and is ready for his furever home on January 22nd. For more info, text 269-929-6491. It’ll be so hard to let him go!