March 2025
The farm has been quieter than usual. We still have our pigs that we are feeding and growing until they reach breeding age in a couple of months. Then, we will find them some nice females to start the breeding process. Our remaining chickens have been secured with an additional electric fence. There have been no intruders, which is promising for our large number of hens that are arriving in a couple of weeks. We are getting about 30 hens delivered, and they are about to start laying eggs. It should be very fun. On average, a chicken will lay an egg every other day—that is quite a few eggs! What will we do with almost 15 dozen eggs a week? Omelets for breakfast! Kidding. Great question.
This is something that Wick and I have wanted and pondered for so long. Our goal was to figure out how to raise these animals, provide food for ourselves, and then slowly scale up to try to be a hand in feeding our community.
In this wondering, a beautiful partnership arose. As some of you may know, I have an older sister who is very dear to me. As we grow older and start new phases of life together, we have only grown closer. When our most prized possession—her daughter—was born, my sister, Savannah, knowing the rabbit hole I have been in of holistic food that leads to holistic household products, skincare, etc., she started asking me questions to find the safest products to use around and on her baby. She wanted to know which home cleaners had the best ingredients and finally accepted my habit of only using beef tallow as skincare.
One day, as I was answering some of her questions, we started brainstorming over text: “Wait, what if there was a place where you could go and try all of these more holistic skincare products? Like an Ulta, but for clean-ingredient products only? With products picked out by a trusted source to cut all this guessing and googling to find actual clean products that work? Ingredients you can pronounce only!
And that is how our business, Two-Thirds, was born. The name comes from us being two out of three siblings and how we are passionate about living an 80/20 lifestyle—for example, wearing non-toxic skincare while going out for some chips and margaritas. Balance.
We have spent the past year FaceTiming, making PowerPoints, researching products, ordering products, trying products, Sav making 75 Google spreadsheets, calling businesses, crunching numbers, creating about 100 logos on Canva, and driving back and forth between Glen Rose and Dallas—all to come up with the perfect line of clean, non-toxic skincare, body, and hair products, all from small companies that curate their products with ingredients from local or their very own farms.
We want to bring them to people in the form of a co-op market—a pop-up shop about every month that hops around the Dallas/Fort Worth area, where you can come smell, touch, and try the crème de la crème of “crunchy” products while building community at our events.
Another really fun aspect of this co-op is that if you are wanting this clean, non-toxic skincare, you know that a huge part of skincare is eating quality foods. Therefore, we will also be selling Alexander Acres eggs—with more products coming soon—at our market. It will be the perfect place to come pick up your eggs and stock up for your new skincare routine every month.
We are really excited about this and hope you are too. Our first event will be this summer!
