Onions exempt from CNG certification Because we weren’t able to find organic onion sets and instead planted conventionally grown bare-root onion starts, our onions do not meet the appropriately rigorous Certified Naturally Grown standards. We have grown these onions the same way we grow everything…
On Wednesday of last week, Emily Field, the state herpetologist out of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science in Jackson, came to visit the farm. In August of last year I snapped a picture of a salamander that fell out of one of our silage…
Welcome to the 2023 Summer Share! While summer doesn’t officially start until June 21st, it has sure been feeling like summer on the farm. The weather has been hot and dry. Early summer crops like squash and cucumbers are ripening, and I picked a couple…
This is the last week of the Spring 2023 Share! Thank you so much to all our spring share members. We love growing your vegetables and are proud to be your family’s farmers. On Saturday after the farmers’ market I drove to Houston, Mississippi to…
Meet Our Team Meet Anna. This is Anna’s fourth season working on the farm. She has just completed a course of study in economics at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. Congratulations, Anna! Anna has been with us through a lot. She started back when…
Happy (Belated) Mother’s Day! Since both Randy and myself moved far from our family homes, we really appreciate how wonderful it can be to have family nearby to share our lives with. Connie has been living here for over a year now, and we get…
April was cool and some of our crops are a bit behind schedule (I’m looking at you, Napa cabbage!). But CSA is about celebrating what the garden gives us, even when it is erratic and different than we had planned. This week the shares are…
I don’t think I would have believed that four people could install a 2000 square foot high tunnel in six hours if I weren’t witnessing it today. The crew from Scenic Acres is putting up a new high tunnel. This is one instance where it…
