What an exciting weekend, we got the greenhouse nearly built!  And it’s a good thing, too, because we’ll be needing it to start seedlings very soon.  Saturday morning we were at the farm before 9 am to be there for our delivery of lumber and…

The days are still growing short, but soon the Winter Solstice will be here!  We will be celebrating the rebirth of the sun in Tubby Creek Farm fashion with a bonfire.  I always look forward to the turning of the year when the days begin…

I know, you read the blog and you look at the pictures and you think, where are the vegetables?  Seems like all we are doing is tinkering with the tractor and driving it around in circles (I understand, sometimes it feels that way to me,…

So what have we been up to lately?  In addition to keeping you up to date on all our goings on, this blog also serves as a farm journal for myself and Randy, so we have a record of what we did and when. This…

Another fall weekend at the farm, with what I expect to be the last of the hot weather.  Hot by October standards, anyway, but still beautiful for working. This week, we started mowing and disking in our Sourghum-Sudan Grass cover crop.  Although we had seeded…

This weekend we went down to the farm on Saturday afternoon after the Cooper-Young Farmers Market with the new implements for the front of the tractor.  Randy had spent the morning getting them worked over and ready to go. When we arrived, Randy started messing…

Lately I have been investigating what variety of open-pollinated corn to grow.  At first I could only find a few varieties, but as I dug deeper names like “Howling Mob” and “Six Shooter” started to appear.  My likely favorite is still “Country Gentleman”, a corn…

This past weekend Randy and I spent our first night in our will-be home. Our friend Jacob graciously gave up his Sunday to follow us to Mississippi at 6 am and help us build a ramp to the trailer.  We are so grateful!  Randy and…