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…

On Saturday evening, fifteen or so friends, old and new, gathered at the Memphis Center for Independent Living to learn and talk about our Community Supported Agriculture concept. It was really exciting for me and Randy to get to talk about the farm, what we’ve…

Hopefully you have seen our pictures of the grand arrival of our mobile home. Monday morning we took off work and headed out to the farm at our usual 4:00 am departure.  We drove to Byhalia and woke up Pat so that we could pay…

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…