You know what would be great? An accessible van. That way Randy would be able to take vegetables to market and deliver CSA shares. It would make us more independent, efficient and profitable, which is why we entered a contest to win one! Here’s the…
Last Saturday at the farmers market, I was talking about the weather with another farmer. “More rain coming Monday,” he had said. Did he see the look of panic flit across my face? It was almost dry enough to get into the field with…
A week ago Randy and I returned from the Southern Sustainable Agriculture small farm conference known as SSAWG (pronounced “sog”). To be honest, I almost didn’t want to go. After the Mississippi Fruit and Vegetable Growers conference I was feeling pretty information saturated. We…
Happy New Year! We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season. Here at Tubby Creek Farm, we are celebrating the arrival of a litter of puppies. Georgia, the tiny little wirehaired terrier mutt that showed up in early December had four healthy puppies two days…
Here at Tubby Creek Farm, we can grow some cabbage. It’s good to know that come hell or high water, we will have cabbage. When winter weather has turned our fall lettuces into goo, cabbage slaw makes a nice stand-in for crunchy green salad. There…
Over the summer we managed to put about a gallon of cubed, seeded watermelon into the freezer. I had an idea in September when it was still a zillion degrees out – that is would be really fun to drink a watermelon cocktail in the…
Our CSA season ended with November, and since then I have been sleeping in and lounging all day with a cup of coffee and a crossword puzzle book. Wait, that isn’t right…As a good friend said, winter is when you really get things done on…
Last week Randy and I attended the Mississippi Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association conference in Jackson, Mississippi. What a decadent pleasure to be able to leave the farm for three days! I would have enjoyed it much more if I wasn’t still getting over a…
