Author: Josephine Alexander

Pre-Ordering for our Plant Sale is now Open!

Pre-Ordering for our Plant Sale is now Open!

Are you growing a garden this year?  Our plants will be ready just in time to plant after the last frost date has passed us by.  You can order your Certified Naturally Grown plant starts in our web store.   Save 10% when you spend…

Planting Onions & Farm Update

Planting Onions & Farm Update

Randy and Mark finished work on the new greenhouse just in time for spring planting to start in January.  And it is amazing.  For the first time we have heat.  I don’t have to constantly bundle up all the plants for cold nights.  Or set…

Kicking of Year 11

Kicking of Year 11

Our 2022 CSA is now open for new members!  Do you want a box of fresh, local, Certified Naturally Grown produce each week?  Home delivery options are available as well as pick-up here at the farm, at Zopita’s in Collierville, at the Cooper-Young Community Association,…

Final CSA Week of 2021

Final CSA Week of 2021

WE DID IT!  This is the final week of our 2021 CSA.  This has been our 10th year as CSA farmers.  You’d think after 10 years we would have it all figured out but there are always new challenges and new opportunities to learn and…

Cold weather is coming

Cold weather is coming

Cold weather is coming.  It is November, after all!  On Monday Melea, Skylar and I harvested all the remaining peppers and eggplant.  The peppers and eggplant are the last of the frost sensitive plants that are still producing.  A couple of nights in the low…

We dug the sweet potatoes

We dug the sweet potatoes

We dug the sweet potatoes!  We have been enjoying a stretch of warm and sunny days.  The soil was finally dry enough to harvest all the sweet potatoes.  What a relief to have that big job done for the year.   The sweet potatoes have been…

But the weather had other plans

But the weather had other plans

This was the week to harvest sweet potatoes.  But the weather had other plans.  We’ve gotten buckets of rain.  It poured on Saturday, then again yesterday.  At the moment, the approximately two tons of sweet potatoes are trapped in the soaking wet ground. It would…

Working on spring, in fall

Working on spring, in fall

The spring beds are made!  The dry weather has given us time to prepare the soil and shape the beds.  Forty-two beds that are each 180 feet long will give us about a mile and a half to plant.  Once we get some rain and…