We spent Easter Sunday with III’s parents. Monster Milan got to participate in a slightly different egg hunt than he’s used to and hang out with Gobi and Poppa. This child is so lucky to have two sets of grandparents that adore him. And a little lesson on herbs from Gobi. Hopefully he’ll bring some […]
A picture of my favorite smell in the. entire. world.
When we opened up the clover/rye covered sunflower fields to the horses we didn’t bother to run new fence down the west side of the driveway. We just threw a cattle panel up at the end that leads to highway and another panel up at the end that leads to the garden and the house. […]
Fifty chicks arrived in the mail on Wednesday morning. While the Monster seemed amused by the chicks for a while, I’m pretty sure Chacey was more excited about them than he was. Chacey takes her job as guardian of the chicks very seriously. No cats get near the chick coop while Chacey is loose and […]
As a flower fanatic, spring is definitely my favorite time of the year. A few things starting to bloom around the farm. Bachelor buttons and crimson clover…. Pink! Monster Milan’s having trouble deciding which flowers are ready to be cut. The little round buds are just so tempting! The azalea we were certain we had […]
We were so new to gardening when we started selling vegetables that we are just beginning to get our feet wet with cool season production. Since we use so little of our fields during the winter we cover crop them heavily with rye and crimson clover. With the lower part of our fields still being […]
The Monster man simply cannot pass up the opportunity to drop mud down a mudbug chimney. I almost feel sorry for the poor little dudes and all the work they go through only to have big chunks of mud dropped back down their hole.
Strawberries are an experiment for us this year. We’ve been told repeatedly that we can’t grow strawberries in Arkansas without any chemical. It may end up being true but we thought we’d experiment with a few anyway. Over the course of this project we’ve taken bits and pieces of information regarding growing strawberries in the home […]
We have three little goats. We don’t milk them or make meat out of them. We just have them. They don’t require a lot of effort from us and maintain their own pasture as well as keeping the chicken pasture clean all summer long. Last summer we discovered they eat pigweed. Anyone who has experience […]
I took a few pictures around the farm tonight that I’ll try to get posted over the next few days. Garlic Sugar snap peas. I love pea tendrils wrapped around the trellis.