We had a major/minor disaster on Monday with our computer dying, both hard-drive and mother board gave it up, leaving us computer less for a few days. Now we are back in business and now fully updated! Wow what a week! More weeding, rescuing carrots from being over-taken by nasty […]
News From the Farm
More planting to report! The first round of sweet corn is in the ground!, as well as all the popcorn. We can look forward to some wonderfully delicious sweet corn in July, and the best popcorn in late October. The first round of watermelons and canteloupe are in, as well […]
News from the Farm – June 13, 2015
We’ve been busy out here during the past week. We had an incredible work day on Monday! The morning was spent weeding; all the spring onions are now without a weed around them (10,000 onions!), a bed of flowers, broccoli, carrots, beets, all weeded. IN the afternoon we planted two […]
News from the Farm – June 6, 2015
It seems like we’re about to get some rain, but it has been really dry for the past week. We’ve irrigated twice since my last email. Most crops like to receive about an inch of rain a week, so that’s what we try to simulate. We’ve caught up with all […]
News from the Farm – May 30, 2015
We had a group of high school kids out here on Monday. Boy did we put them to work! They helped harvest all the over-wintering onions. They helped plant a bed of eggplant, a bed of tomatoes, and a bed of sunflowers. Drea had a few of them in the […]
News from the Farm – May 23, 2015
This spring hasn’t really felt very springy with temps in the 80s for the past few weeks, but it is spring, even as we turn our focus towards summer. We’ve been pretty busy out here on the farm. This week and the next couple will be extremely busy as we […]
News from the Farm – May 16, 2015
Here we go! The 2015 CSA season is underway! Welcome everyone, new and old. We’re happy to have you along for what’s sure to be a season full of fresh and tasty produce. We had a pretty good winter of rest, planning, and organizing getting ourselves and the farm ready […]
News from the Farm – May 9, 2015
I hope this finds every one well and enjoying the Spring season. We have had some gorgeous days and have been getting a bunch of things done. We were excited to welcome our second intern on Tuesday. Amy is joining us from Macon, GA this year. Her interest in […]
News from the Farm – April 2, 2015
Everyone is off to Double Tree Farm in Madison county to press & boil the sorghum. By the end of the day we’ll have molasses! Cathy Guthrie is an old friend of Vanessa’s and has a draft horse powered farm in the Grapevine area of Madison Co. The crew (&horses) […]
News from the Farm – October 11, 2014
October is here! We’re still doing some weeding of the late fall veggies. We’re going to plant a little more lettuce today, and sow the last round of turnips, arugula, and radishes. We’re collected the garlic that we’ll plant in about two weeks and the over-wintering onions are getting bigger […]
News from the Farm – October 4, 2014
We survived the farm tour this past weekend. We have a little over 100 visitors to the farm over the two days. It was nice to talk with people about what we do here and many said that our farm was “the most beautiful of any they have seen”. That […]
News from the Farm – September 24, 2015
This is going to go out to both the Wednesday and Saturday CSA members with my apologies to the Wed. crowd. I spent all day on Wednesday on tractors. That’s been the big activity on the farm in the past week; getting ground ready for winter cover crops. I’ve been […]