This year is the first year we are bringing outside vegetable seedlings on the farm. Starting seedlings is one of my very favorite aspects of growing vegetables but our plans to expand this year left us short on space for starting the number of seedlings we want to grow. So back in November I made […]
Since I’m too tired tonight to hook up my camera and write a post about the work we’ve done in the last two days, I’m going to post a video that best explains why so many of my friends are doing what they are doing.
My mother-in-law texted me this morning…she’d seen her first daffodil in bloom. On February 1? This didn’t surprise me. Not nearly as much anyway as this sight did on Saturday morning. I barely looked at the mulch covered tulip patch as I walked by on my way to mulching blackberries. Something caught my eye and […]
A few months ago I sowed some random beet seeds in a big tub in the greenhouse. Since then I’ve read it wasn’t really the right time to sow beet seeds, so they’ve been kind of neglected. Yesterday in preparation for a full greenhouse by the end of the week we pulled that tub outside […]
The farm has been part of the internship program of a nearby college for a few semesters now. And while in some ways having interns on the farm creates more work for me, I definitely like the energy they bring to the farm. The first year the farm became my full-time work was a bit […]
Since it rained all day today Bruce didn’t have any concrete work to do so we drove down to American Composting in North Little Rock to pick up a load of compost. Most places sell compost by the yard-usually in whatever increment corresponds to the size bucket they have on the front of their tractor. Most nurseries […]
The biggest challenge I face in January is scheduling how I plan on turning this into this. I realize that this is a struggle every gardener faces in the spring. However, I feel mine is slightly unique in that I’m having severe growing pains. Or maybe that is not unique. Whether unique or not, I’m […]
The weather was so nice Thursday, the Monster and I decided to finish up a project III had started prior to the opening of duck season. Mulching our blackberries. I have a friend/neighbor, Bruce, that barters odd jobs with me. My end of the deal is always pretty sweet, it involves sitting in his air-conditioned […]
I’ll apologize on the front end for being no landscape photographer. The sunset last night though was so spectacular it made me wish I were one. I caught the very tail-end of it and while the colors in this picture are pretty, they don’t even do justice to what I could see outside of the […]
My parents were in town from Iowa last week to hang out while III had to be in Alabama for work. We were lucky with the weather for most of their trip and were able to hang out outside and at the park several of the days they were here. The last day they were […]