It is May and as such lots and lots has been happening on the farm.  A few weeks ago we got 30 Guinea Fowl chicks and they are growing happily in the brooder.   We weighed all and weaned most of our piglets.  I say most…

Life on the farm has been as busy as ever!  Two weeks ago 100 Freedom Ranger chicks arrived and we have just moved them out onto pasture in the safety of the chicken tractor where they are already happily eating clover, weed seeds and any…

This week we are practicing an important farmer skill: knowing when to abort the mission, give up, change the plan.  About a month ago, we had three acres of new field plowed for next year’s vegetables.  The wet weather and our busy schedule has kept…

Last week it was summer, this week it is winter.  The mice, wasps and birds are eyeing our house as a delightful winter get-away.  A week or so ago I met a bird in the office, today there was one in the bedroom – perhaps…

The calendar may say it is still spring, but it sure feels like summer at Tubby Creek Farm.  Summer crops are replacing spring ones, with summer squash starting this week and cucumbers likely next week.  The lettuce is done until fall, as are the snow…

WOW!  Things are moving right along at Tubby creek Farm.  The transition from summer to fall has been quick, yet pleasant with warm dry days.  We badly need rain yet the dryness has helped us do more prep work. We have already sold a couple…

Another fall weekend at the farm, with what I expect to be the last of the hot weather.  Hot by October standards, anyway, but still beautiful for working. This week, we started mowing and disking in our Sourghum-Sudan Grass cover crop.  Although we had seeded…

This weekend we went down to the farm on Saturday afternoon after the Cooper-Young Farmers Market with the new implements for the front of the tractor.  Randy had spent the morning getting them worked over and ready to go. When we arrived, Randy started messing…