I figured I was long over due in giving an update on the Big Freeze of a week or so ago.  The good news is that plants can be surprisingly resilient!  We had some burned cabbage leaves in the greenhouse, loss of some of our…

  I cannot believe it has been almost two months since I last wrote a blog. Holy Cow, we have had a lot going on! Well for starters for those that don’t know Jo and I moved out of Memphis and on to the farm…

Greetings from the farm!  How are we doing?  It’s cold.    The dog’s water bowl had a thin layer of ice on it in the house this morning, so I guess it’s around 32 degrees in here.  The space heater in the bedroom is thankfully keeping…

Hello there!  We have had quite a hiatus from connectivity, but now we are back.  Randy got everything hooked up last night – and we may not have heat, but we have the internet (does that say something about our priorities?). A lot has happened…

What an exciting weekend, we got the greenhouse nearly built!  And it’s a good thing, too, because we’ll be needing it to start seedlings very soon.  Saturday morning we were at the farm before 9 am to be there for our delivery of lumber and…

The days are still growing short, but soon the Winter Solstice will be here!  We will be celebrating the rebirth of the sun in Tubby Creek Farm fashion with a bonfire.  I always look forward to the turning of the year when the days begin…

I know, you read the blog and you look at the pictures and you think, where are the vegetables?  Seems like all we are doing is tinkering with the tractor and driving it around in circles (I understand, sometimes it feels that way to me,…

So what have we been up to lately?  In addition to keeping you up to date on all our goings on, this blog also serves as a farm journal for myself and Randy, so we have a record of what we did and when. This…