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Farm Warming Party!

Farm Warming Party!

The Farm Warming Festivities for Tubby Creek Farm! Come on out and see our humble plot of land. There will be farm tours, fun, conversation and a big bonfire! Saturday October 1st. starting at 4PM You are welcome to camp out over night, just bring…

Why we prefer open-pollinated seeds

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…

Little Red Tractor

Little Red Tractor

Ok, so there is a little something special about the Farmall Cub, it has a fan club.  Yes, the Farmall Cub was and still is a very popular little tractor.  There are folks all over that collect these little gems even in France. Then there…

SLEEP-OVER!

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…

First CSA meeting fun and tasty!

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…

Arrival of our home-sweet-home

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…

Lil Red Tractor

Lil Red Tractor

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…

First Four Acres Turned

First Four Acres Turned

  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…