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…

If anyone would have told me, even 3 years ago, that someday I would own a tractor I wouldn’t have believed it, that all changed this weekend.  Jo and I bought a 1949 Farmall Cub.  They are great little tractors that were mass produced starting…

  It has been brutal hot but this weekend it was cooler. Still 94 degrees, but it felt cooler compared to the 101 degrees earlier in the week.  I had Monday off from my office job so we treated ourselves slept in Sunday and worked…

It has been HOT!  Leaving Memphis at 4 AM you just know it is going to be hot.  Then you get outside of the concrete and houses and the air cools off, mist rises and things just plain smell better.  Our morning started off by…

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…

The old adage, work smarter not harder came to mind this weekend.  We have been out there every weekend we can get away and working just has hard as we can, as long as we can despite the heat.  We have come home beaten and…

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…