Fresh Local Vegetables
Farmers Josephine and Randy Alexander grow thirty types of vegetables for a 100 member Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program, farmers markets and wholesale at their 70 acre farm in north Mississippi’s beautiful hill country. A herd of Kiko-Cross meat goats and heritage laying hens also…
Tubby Creek Farm is proud to be Certified Naturally Grown since 2014. Our farm is inspected each year through a peer review system to ensure that we are committed to sustainable principals and working in harmony with nature, and that our produce is grown without…
We will be offering a wide variety of native plants on Saturday, May 11th at the Cooper Young Community Farmers Market. Native plants are a great choice to support birds, hummingbirds, butterflies, native bees, and other native pollinators. Once established they are easy to care…
FARM UPDATES It’s Election Day! We are headed out to vote and only have time to share some pictures. Current CSA Members – Extra Week Available We had planned that the last Fall CSA would be November 13th (Wednesday) & November 16th (Saturday). After evaluating…
Where are the sweet potatoes? Some of you have been asking! Although we did not grow sweet potatoes this year, we do have plans to put locally grown Certified Organic sweet potatoes in the shares. As you may recall, this spring was extraordinarily rainy. So…
This past week we had guests on the farm. Three of my friends from college plus two spouses and three children, all close to Cooper’s age, came for a visit during their fall break. They all live in Minnesota and it has been many years…
It is glorious to be working outdoors at this time of the year. Especially after the heat of summer. Time to break out the sweatshirts and jackets. Hallelujah! We are excited to have a box jam-packed full of produce this week. We ate some cabbage…
I may have been a little bit stressed when I wrote last week’s newsletter about all the work we had to catch up on. But with the help of our amazing crew we are well on our way in getting caught up. We took down…
The weather isn’t small talk for farmers. Farmers talk about the weather because it impacts the decisions we make and what we do on a day to day basis. We are thrilled to have a stretch of dry weather in the forecast. We are waiting…
One of the tasks we have been doing a lot of lately is clearing summer crops out of our high tunnels, preparing the soil, and planting fall and winter crops in their place. Today we’re taking a deep dive into the what and why of…
Nearly seven inches of rain have fallen on the farm since Thursday. That’s an awful lot of water. The frogs in particular are overjoyed to have water again in the pond. The cottonmouths that hunt the frogs should be happy, too. Luckily, our fields are…