Author: Josephine Alexander

Completion of Our First CSA Season

Completion of Our First CSA Season

This week we are feeling thankful.  Why?  Because eleven households supported our farm this spring, placing their trust in us and hoping to get some vegetables in return.  Thank you for being a founding member of our CSA.  We’ve been on a pretty steep learning…

Planting Party!

Planting Party!

Planting Party – We’ve got 550 tomatoes, 400 eggplants, 400 peppers, 200 basils and 50 tomatillos to plant!  Come join us next Sunday, April 8th for a planting BONANZA!  We’ll be planting from first light through early afternoon.  Feel free to come down and camp…

War on Cannibalism: Mission Accomplished!

War on Cannibalism: Mission Accomplished!

As of Tuesday night I am now back to sleeping in my bed, with my husband.  It is great.  Since last Thursday, I had been sleeping with the chickens.  On the floor, in the shed, where the smell of chicken poo had been steadily increasing…

Chicken Chaos

Chicken Chaos

Today was not a good day to be a chicken at Tubby Creek Farm. To get the full story, we need to back up a day.  Yesterday, we moved the Cornish Rocks into their new digs – the chicken tractor.  We had just finished it…

Want to have a bonfire party at our farm?

Want to have a bonfire party at our farm?

So here’s the deal.  We’ve got this old barn that fell down at some unknown point in the past.  Mrs. Wilson got all the good stuff out of it (t-posts and the like) and had someone come for all the scrap metal.  We are left…

The chicks are here!

The chicks are here!

THE CHICKS ARE HERE!  This morning the post office called at 7:00 am to let us know our chicks had arrived.  Randy said he could here them peeping in the background. Our chicks are here?!?!?! After being anxious all day yesterday I was surprised to…

Planting, planting and more planting

Planting, planting and more planting

I figured I was long over due in giving an update on the Big Freeze of a week or so ago.  The good news is that plants can be surprisingly resilient!  We had some burned cabbage leaves in the greenhouse, loss of some of our…

Punxsutawney Phil was right!

Greetings from the farm!  How are we doing?  It’s cold.    The dog’s water bowl had a thin layer of ice on it in the house this morning, so I guess it’s around 32 degrees in here.  The space heater in the bedroom is thankfully keeping…