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…
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 removed an old barnyard fence that was originally designed to keep livestock out of the garden area. It added another 400 square feet to the garden. I removed…
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…
Vince got our very first organic seed starts going in the greenhouse this weekend as the last of the snow melted. This first batch is: Organic tomatoes: Roma, Lemon…
I had no real plans to go all out and build a stone wall on the upper sides of my terraced garden sections, but here I go. I love…
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…
This weekend’s TN Organic Growers Association conference provided a wonderful opportunity to meet one of Tennessee’s organic pioneers. Alfred Farris and his wife Carney moved to their 487 acre…
I spent part of the morning in the woods cutting three 20 feet cedar posts for our first bed of organic hops. The “bines” will grow that tall every…
I didn’t know what to expect working with local utilities to prevent drift from chemical management of right of ways onto our organic farm. Each of our local utilities…