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Ditch Digging

Last Thursday evening, I dug a 100′ ditch next to the green house.. It is part of our 2010 clean-up project. We are going to install landscape fabric on the east side of the green house and put up a washing and packing shed for vegetables. But first, we have to install a underground irrigation [...]

Grandpa in his heyday

Who are those guys in the upper left hand corner of this blog?

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.

Farmwork – What’s That?

We should of been planting peas this week. It didn’t happen.
We have come to expect days in the 50’s with a few days in the 70’s in February. This is a different year.
Frank, the market manager at Yorkmont shared with me two Saturday’s ago that the avg. daily high this time of year is 45 [...]

Garlic Everywhere!

Popping Garlic
That is what it is called when you bust up garlic bulbs into individual garlic cloves and that is what we did most of the day Tuesday with the help of CJ.
It is not that hard of work. We get to sit around. sit being the keyword, listening to the radio, and busting up [...]

Help Save this Farm

Barbee Farms near Concord is about to be busted up with a NC DOT project linked to I-85 improvements. An alternative plan is available that would cost less and not displace the farm.
Voice your opinion if you are so inclined.

Fall Sowing

Most of our fall sowing is done. We made multiple sowings of collards, lacinato kale, spinach, beets, carrots, and arugula to spread the risk of crop failure in September.
Seeds in the ground are a long way from a harvestable crop.
Still have to finish cleaning out the greenhouse and getting stuff sowed in it. Jenifer and [...]

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