It seems a little early to think on strawberries. They’re a springtime treasure; a classic southern favorite, rewarding our steady diet of winter soups, canned tomatoes and sweet potatoes prepared every way possible. Come May they present… to read more click here Vol.5 #23 (10-23-12)
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The early morning dew settled the dry soil as the tiller turned its tines across the fields incorporating the cover crop seeds thrown with a hand-turned seeder. The old canvas and metal contraption was made in Indiana…to read more click here Vol.5 #22(10-16-12)
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After two weeks of relaying the depressing realities of farming in the south in the fall, I feel it is time to move on to the hallelujah’s, the joyous moments in our year that exponentially outnumber the despondent… to read more click here Vol.5 #21 (10-09-12)
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The paper thin veil separating a profitable, bountiful harvest and total crop loss is something every farm and farmer accepts as reality. In one starlit, calm night a herd of deer can mow an entire field of ready-to-pick peas and over the course of just a few days…to read more click here Vol.5 #20(10-02-12)
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Our camera is broke but use your imagination if you will and picture swarms of vengeful, persistent pests munching and defacing innocent, unarmed green leaves. The picture should display in black and white with ominous cumulus clouds as a sky backdrop hovering over desperate farmers with cell phones…to read more click here Vol.5 #19 (09-25-12)
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Walking alongside the buckwheat last week just before the lunch bell summoned our hungry bellies to the table, I stopped to admire the blazing white buds bursting open with perfect symphony. Their physical beauty, their upright posture and belonging demeanor…to read more click here Vol.5 #18 (09-18-12)
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I was listening to the public radio station in the truck on my way to Lagrange this morning in route to three different schools awaiting fall transplants grown at our farm. The journalist reported on a new study questioning the legitimacy of Organic foods…to read more click here Vol.5 # 17(09-04-12)
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The wet weather is forcing us inside today, and probably through Thursday, funneling our energy towards the domestic side of a working farm, baking and freezing zucchini bread, pickling okra, bookkeeping, and tending to forgotten farm and home chores…to read more click here Vol.5 # 16(08-28-12)
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Weeding has been branded with a sour reputation I suppose because it’s work and requires repetitive, monotonous, mindless movement when a suitable machine could substitute, relieving one of wastefulness and imposition… to read more click here Vol.5 #15 (08-21-12)
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After finishing to help load the truck for this afternoons Lagrange delivery, I walked over to the far side of the farm passing through the sweet potato vines, the baby cabbage plants, and a very proper stand of glowing buckwheat to arrive at my intended destination…to read more click here Vol.5 #14(08-14-12)
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