Time for my weekly update!  Guess what we have?  A culvert!  Timmy Bolden came out with his bulldozer and prepped the trailer pad and driveway and cleared a spot for the shed.  It’s starting to look real out there. Other exciting news from yesterday?  Early…

This weekend, I looked at the kudzu.  I mean I really looked at it.  Until now, it had occupied my peripheral vision.  I knew it was there, of course, but I hadn’t gotten a good look.   The farm and I have been in a…

We have a new addition to our farm!  Randy had been thoroughly scouring Craig’s List on an almost daily basis looking for lawn mowers, both push and riding.  Making phone calls, doing research, weighing the pros and cons.  We did end up buying a used…

Yesterday was work day #3 at the farm.  Randy and I are in the routine now of waking up at 3 am and getting on the road by 4 am.  I tried herbal tea instead of coffee, which doesn’t really agree with me, only to…

This morning, Randy pulled up all the Early Italian Purple and Inchelium Red garlic at the Angelus Street Garden.  These two soft-neck varieties have been very productive and problem free for us.  Inchelium Red is listed in the Slow Food USA Ark of Taste, a…

Yesterday Randy and I went to visit the farm for the second time since we closed on the property.  With our busy schedules including the GrowMemphis booth at the Cooper-Young Community Farmers Market on Saturdays, Sunday is really the only day we can get up…

The pictures of the pond are back when we toured the property before we purchased it.  It is a beautiful pond mid way up a hill in the back or east end of the property. The other pictures are from our first trip out as…