Sprouting native plants. It has started! The greenhouse is a busy place and will only get busier
Cooper enjoying the snow we had in mid January
Mommas and their kids. Just a few days old the kids fared well in our cold snap
Josephine sorting and organizing seeds for 2024
Red blossom of the Scarlett Beebalm-Oswego Tea
White blossoms of the Foxglove Beardstongue
Yellow flower of the Carolina Lupine
Orange blossoms of Butterfly weeds
Field strawberries are beginning to bloom
Potatoes are pushing up through the soil
Robin is rolling up the frost cloth in the high tunnel. These tomatoes are getting an early start. Even in the high tunnel if low temperatures come back we will cover the tomatoes up
Plant sale
Meg holding some native plants that will be for sale in May
Just a few of our tomatoes potted up for our spring plant sale
Ugh potato bug!, We hand pick these little vermin and drop them into a jar of soupy water.
Luckily the little heads of lettuce don’t mind frosty mornings
Connie, working hard packing full shares
Please fold your box with the “Environmentally Friendly” label over towards the middle NOT on the end
Randy in his new EcoRover track chair going down a path in the woods
First nine beds for summer crops were shaped and cover on Saturday and filled with plants on Monday
Randy driving the tractor hilling the potatoes
Collard bunches for CSA about to be rinsed
Just a few of the Native Plant sale pre-orders are put together
Cooper the “Strawberry King” chomping on a giant strawberry he just picked
Cooper helping Josephine set up the header for the drip irrigation
Beets, carrots and more. A portion of the spring field
Happy goats just moved to a new area.
CSA Shares packed and ready for the walk in
Little spotted salamander found in around the wash pack building
A picture of just some of the plants we had available for our Native Plant Sale
When the goats get out they go looking for their favorites, chard is definitely high on their list.
Cooper bubble washing the cabbage
What’s a kid to do for a snack? Cooper likes fresh kohlrabi
Randy and Cooper washing onions
Robin washing beets
Quick turn around. Beds made between all the rain. All fifteen beds are in the process of being filled with tomatoes, okra, squash, and more.
First time growing onions in the high tunnel. Some of them are just huge.
A wet, wet, wet spring. We were able to finally make some beds even though it was too wet.
After some time, after some work we have the old mule is up and running.
Katherine and Meg processing onions from the high tunnel
Founds another Tiger salamander. Even had this one confirmed and DNA sample taken by the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science
It is squash season
Cooper the carrot inspector
Filled the space next to the high tunnel with Black Eye Susan
Josephine (L), Meg (C) and Katherine (L) pruning and trellising tomatoes in the high tunnel
Katherine in the greenhouse laying out onions to sure.
Just some of the onions curing in the greenhouse
Katherine loading fingerling potatoes into the bed of the Mule
27 Beds done and ready for planting
The prune and trellis system we use for tomatoes in the high tunnel has improved quality and the amount of quality fruit
Here is a step back to look at our trellised tomatoes
Our winter squash s starting to set fruit
Early morning dew over the field
Here the teff grass is not tall enough yet, to mow
The okra was planted late but it’s coming on strong. You can also see the freshly mowed Teff grass in the pathways
Early morning shot of the cover crop mix coming up
The melons are growing, the white is the kaolin clay to protect them from the sun until they grow a bit.
Happy bucks with their carrot treats
The birds love the army worm invasion. The humans, not so much.
Summer cover crop July 7th
A before and after image of the destruction caused by the armyworms
A picture of our late summer section coming to your CSA or farmers market melons, okra butternut squash and more
This hen snuck off and hatched seven little chicks. Josephine caught them all and moved them to a safe space
Alien faced potato, the alien invasion has begun and they are, potato!
Early week squash harvesting with Kayla
Katherine harvesting peppers in the high tunnel
The summer cover crop has benefited from all the rain. Currently sitting at about 3 foot should easily reach 6 to 8 foot by the time it gets mowed and disked in.
Katherine (L) and Meg (R) working on round four of fall seeding
Kayla (L) and Robin (R) packing CSA shares with Connie in the background weighing out potatoes.
Joseph trellising field tomatoes.
Little green frog just waiting for some small pollinator to come along
Finally the okra is starting to produce. Here Meg is picking okra into fruit harvesting basket hanging on her shoulders.
Josephine posing with googly eyed eggplant. Thanks Stephanie for this picture
This is what it looks like when Kayla goes to pick okra, its a good foot taller than her.
Watermelons are ripe. Meg picked over 250 of them today
Assorted fall crops well on there way
Josephine enjoying fried clams from the Lobster Shack
These red Napa cabbages don’t like the warm afternoons but as the days cool they’ll perk up
A major accomplishment today – we shaped all of our garden beds for next spring! It’s too wet to prepare beds in the spring when we start planting, so we have to make them all well in advance. These 50 180-foot beds will hold all our spring crops like potatoes, onions, carrots, lettuce and more.
The fall garden is looking great dressed in all different shades of green. The dark green in the front is broccoli. All the bright green in the middle is carrots!
The temperature is back up today but we sure enjoyed the sweater weather we have got a taste of lately. Cool fall days are our reward for sweating through summer’s heat. And we appreciate them all the more.
Shorter days means later sunrises, which means we are always out in time to see them. Randy captured this particularly spectacular one.
We had a handful of apple tree blow over in the winds from Francine.
Here are a few apple trees we had to support after the rains and wind
Lots of tomatoes still growing in the high tunnels
Carrots are coming along nicely. These three beds should be ready in about a month.
Monica and Meg picking Juliet tomatoes
Hurricane Francine left us with 6.86 inches of rain
In this high tunnel there are broccoli foreground and Brussels sprouts
Here we have celery in the bed on the left and fennel in the two beds to the right
Monica picking some of the last squash of 2024
Cooper enjoying some rain
Meg (foreground) and Monica picking squash
Our spring beds are covered in all sorts of grasses. It’s time to cover them with tarps until spring planting in 2025
Sanctuary at City Park New Orleans
Spanish Moss at day break City Park New Orleans
Cafe Du Monde City Park New Orleans
Great food, drink and atmosphere at Lulas, New Orleans
Josephine changing the fan belt on Ol’ Blue
Butterfly on a Vitex (Chaste Tree)
Randy mowing down one of two patches of okra
Cooper harvested two really big pumpkins from our little test patch
Po Boy and a classic muffuletta from Katies in New Orleans
Pulling shade cloth off the high tunnels
Four bowls of different native plants seeds. Preparing for our native plant sale in 2025
Randy (L) and Robin (R) cutting poles as they work on repairing a high tunnel
David with Calvin on his shoulders enjoying fresh picked carrots
David (L), Oscar (Middle background), Ca;lvin (front center) and Cooper (R) and others spending a moment with our goat, Peanut
Bee hive on the fence
Another angle of the bee hive on the fence
Carrots all bunched and clean ready for your CSA
Robin washing the purple Napa cabbages
Cooper, (L), Guy, (C) and Oscar, (R) on a walk around the farm
Winter cover crop mix of winter oats and winter peas
Summer crops are all disked in and cover crop seed planted which is a mix of winter oats and winter peas
Kayla picking tomatoes in the high tunnel
Connie weighing and packing salad mix for the CSA
Robin spraying and cleaning carrots
Meg (L) and Monica (R) seeding onions and leaks for 2025
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