My wife and I started a homestead in 2020 based in New Brockton, Al.  We have a little bit of everything with a garden, goats, chickens, pigs, rabbits and a sulcata tortoise.  It's 5 acres of (somewhat) controlled chaos and we love it.  Before all that though we have always been animal people, and dog people specifically.  We started with our Siberian Husky Oden in the first year of us dating.  That was 13 years ago and since then we have collected a lot of unwanted dogs with varying degrees of peculiarities, from allergies and sensitivities, to personality quirks and delusions of grandeur.  Sadly, the latter issue stands as neither of us are qualified dog psychiatrists or exorcists (chihuahua owners, no doubt, understand our plight.)  But the former is something we've had some experience in remedying.  We made our own dog food for Oden's sensitive stomach, Tuco's chicken sensitivity and Archie's fading chompers.  All of our dog's benefited though, with better breath and energy, healthier coats, and better digestion.  We knew we were onto something. We started our homestead in 2020 to begin supplementing our own food as much as we could.  As time went on we realized we could not afford (with time, money. or refrigerator space) to continue making all 6 of our dogs all their meals.  A compromise was made.  We would buy the best kibble we could afford, and supplement with homemade treats using anything we could from what we produced on the farm.  Mostly eggs from our free range flock and various fruits and vegetables.  We would buy what we could from other local small farmers and buy the rest from the grocery store.  We worked out a few biscuit recipes that our dogs couldn't get enough of, but we could do better.  We replaced wheat flour by grinding our own oat flour.  Then we realized our store bought broth had some less than desirable ingredients, so we began making our own chicken and beef bone broth that had so many more benefits for our dogs.  It was really coming together now.  We started selling them to friends and family, but they still needed to be kept in the refrigerator to keep them for more than a few days.  We really didn't want to add any kind of preservative, no matter how safe they were purported to be.  So we bought a dehydrator so they would be shelf stable for months with no added preservatives!  We began selling them at the farmers market at this point and began getting some good feedback from our local community.  The ball was really rolling now!  We began adding new single ingredient items: pig ears, beef liver, chicken feet, beef sirloin, chicken breast, pork tenderloin.  We tried sardines... never again.  We started making mixed bags (Tail Mix was the original name idea, but Lisa found this objectionable) based on our dogs favorites.  Lisa had the idea to make special barkuterie boxes for special occasions with meats, cheeses, and seasonal fruits and veggies.  These were a big hit with our customers!  It is still a work in progress.  We are still coming up with new recipe ideas and trying to source more of our ingredients from our homestead and other local small farmers. The support from our customers has been overwhelming though and we are truly beyond grateful for each of you!  We have big plans for the future and are so excited for what's to come!