We are growing 13 varieties of lettuce this year. That may sound like a lot – a lot more than you might find in a typical grocery store – until you realize that the Fedco Seed catalogue lists 79 entrees for lettuce. That again may…
A few weeks ago our new baby chickens arrived. I thought back to last year when our first babies came and chaos ensued for the next five weeks as those tiny fluffy creatures exerted total control over our lives. Was that only 12 month ago? …
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…
