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Finished canning 34 qts. and 26 pts. of tomatos. The black krim tomatoes were awesome. Seeing the way they changed colors thru the process 2009/07/24
Dug 400 #'s of Binjte potatoes with Erin, CJ, and Jen this morning, Re -bedded and fed around 6,000 worms in the afternoon. 2009/07/17
local bratwurst boiled in beer with 6 Binjte potatoes. Grilled them with ear of fresh corn and 1st Russian Purple tomato...awesome 2009/07/06
Picked 3 five gal. buckets of Zephyr Squash this evening. http://tinyurl.com/q6244k 2009/07/06

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 [...]

Great Work Crew Day Thursday

First thing that happened, the post office called and said our 65 baby turkeys had arrived. We we not expecting them until Friday since they were coming from TX. but glad to get them early.
We ordered 65 and they sent 67. That is normal to account for any death loss in transit, but they all [...]

Black Snakes Are Back

Wednesday, we were setting the last Better Boy tomatoes and some hot pepper plants out. Joe and Jenny were mulching them with wheat straw. I was at the end of the garden patch we were working on and turned around and a huge black snake was cruising by heading towards the barn.
Joe and Jenny got to [...]

On the Farm

Farm Work
Tuesday, I spent all day potting up young transplants of eggplants and peppers into 4.5″ X 4. pots. Why do I mention this? We used to transplant the plants directly from the flats into the garden. They did ok. We have found though that if we take the time and spend the money on [...]

Spring Moves Us Forward

What is Collard Raab?
I had not heard of collard raab either until last Saturday when Maria Fisher walked up with a handful of collard seed stalks and asked me what she should charge for them. I just gave her a blank look. Sensing that she was dealing with someone that was not culinarily hip and [...]

Massey Ferguson Combine

Apparently, I now own one. All I have to do is go get.
I met a woman back in December at a workshop and we exchanged information. She owns a farm in Cabarrus county about 7 miles from us. Although she lives in Charlotte, it was the farm she grew up on and it has been [...]

Greenhouse Work

Jenifer and I have been busy in the greenhouse sowing seeds. We have close to 5,000 potential plants coming on. I say potential because the majority of them are just tiny seeds in the dirt. Mostly lettuce, cabbage, and broccoli but also some kale and spicy greens, and even beets.
We don’t heat our greenhouse because [...]

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