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…

We have a new addition to our farm!  Randy had been thoroughly scouring Craig’s List on an almost daily basis looking for lawn mowers, both push and riding.  Making phone calls, doing research, weighing the pros and cons.  We did end up buying a used…

Sunday we woke up at three so we could be out at the farm by day break.  It was a cool foggy morning which was great for doing work.  There is a fence dividing the front property that we want to clear out so we…

Yesterday was work day #3 at the farm.  Randy and I are in the routine now of waking up at 3 am and getting on the road by 4 am.  I tried herbal tea instead of coffee, which doesn’t really agree with me, only to…

This morning, Randy pulled up all the Early Italian Purple and Inchelium Red garlic at the Angelus Street Garden.  These two soft-neck varieties have been very productive and problem free for us.  Inchelium Red is listed in the Slow Food USA Ark of Taste, a…