Laughing Owl Farm

That would be my dad, Lane Landon Mullis, and my Grandpa, Otto Lane Mullis, circa 1946.
Grandpa is gone and dad is 70+ but is still fooling with cattle, he has a herd of around 50 cows. He no longer rides them or wears funny hats though.

No market for us this week. I will be back March 6th.
The dearth of local vegetables at the market due to the extended cold and cloudy, wet weather has become noticeable. Just speaking for us, we expected a cold winter but the amount of rain and lack of sunshine has been a [...]

The beauty of our local food economy is that it is spread across various micro-climates surrounding Charlotte but we need more local growers.There is a misconception that us farmers, because we are farmers, are able to grow anything in the seed catalogs. That is certainly not true in our case, although I think [...]

Don’t let these two storm troopers fool you with their “cute” looks. They showed up Wednesday morning asking for “Papers Please!” They are mean.Frick and Frack are two of our remaining three cotton patch geese. Gretchen hangs out with the chickens.
We had the geese in with the laying hens as guard [...]