Author: Josephine Alexander

Another Tiger Salamander

Another Tiger Salamander

On Wednesday of last week, Emily Field, the state herpetologist out of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science in Jackson, came to visit the farm.  In August of last year I snapped a picture of a salamander that fell out of one of our silage…

Welcome to the 2023 Summer Share

Welcome to the 2023 Summer Share

Welcome to the 2023 Summer Share!  While summer doesn’t officially start until June 21st, it has sure been feeling like summer on the farm.  The weather has been hot and dry.  Early summer crops like squash and cucumbers are ripening, and I picked a couple…

Final Spring 2023 Share

Final Spring 2023 Share

This is the last week of the Spring 2023 Share!  Thank you so much to all our spring share members.  We love growing your vegetables and are proud to be your family’s farmers. On Saturday after the farmers’ market I drove to Houston, Mississippi to…

Living Mulch

Living Mulch

Meet Our Team Meet Anna.  This is Anna’s fourth season working on the farm.  She has just completed a course of study in economics at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. Congratulations, Anna!  Anna has been with us through a lot.  She started back when…

Happy (Belated) Mother’s Day!

Happy (Belated) Mother’s Day!

Happy (Belated) Mother’s Day!  Since both Randy and myself moved far from our family homes, we really appreciate how wonderful it can be to have family nearby to share our lives with.  Connie has been living here for over a year now, and we get…

Getting ahead of garden pests

Getting ahead of garden pests

April was cool and some of our crops are a bit behind schedule (I’m looking at you, Napa cabbage!).  But CSA is about celebrating what the garden gives us, even when it is erratic and different than we had planned.  This week the shares are…

New High Tunnel

New High Tunnel

I don’t think I would have believed that four people could install a 2000 square foot high tunnel in six hours if I weren’t witnessing it today.  The crew from Scenic Acres is putting up a new high tunnel.   This is one instance where it…

CSA Kick off

CSA Kick off

Today we harvested and packed the very first vegetables that our field had to offer this year.  Hooray for a new season just beginning!  Right now there are a lot of leafy greens.  This week the boxes include baby komatsuna.  A Brassica rapa, komatsuna’s closest…