Seeds are pretty inexpensive, and you can find just about any variety of anything in the world online. But this year we selected seeds from some of our best…
Seeds are pretty inexpensive, and you can find just about any variety of anything in the world online. But this year we selected seeds from some of our best…
After reading our story on the front page of our local paper this week, I thought I should post some thoughts and links to supplement the section on compost…
Today is the first day of Fall and the official start of our organic Shiitake and Maitake mushroom production at Half Hill Farm! This Summer we began working with…
We had no idea our first year’s test patches would produce anything near enough to go to market. Maybe it’s all the rain. Maybe it’s a couple of exciting…
Organic cilantro awaits a late planting at Half Hill Farm. (Woodbury, TN) — Half Hill Farm has become one of Cannon County’s first farms to receive USDA organic certification….
One of the most important organic cultural practices I use on the farm is inoculating crops with mycorrhizal fungi. The photo above shows an application on one of 100…
Two things I’m very excited about arrived at the farm this week. First is the endomycorrhizal fungi I’ll tell you more about later. The second are the first of…
This week I helped a friend go through his mother’s attic at their historic Century Farm in nearby Readyville, TN and was reminded of a different time in our…
We’re supposed to have some awesome weather this weekend here in Middle Tennessee, so I spent some time today building a fire pit where we burned some brush a…
A lot of the required organic practices aren’t new ways of doing things at all. Planting clover as a cover crop is a practice that goes back to our…