Always A Struggle

Always A Struggle

There is one thing you can count on in farming, it will always be a struggle.  Rarely, if ever, is there a crop that you plant one month, harvest a couple months later, and say to yourself, “well that was easy”!  This year, our first at the new farm, has...

Bringing The Heat

These 90 degree days of summer are inevitable every year.  I tend to find myself dreading them at first, but coming around to eventually being thankful for them.   The heat really helps our veggies out.  The okra and hot peppers are entering into a good production and...
A Window Of Opportunity

A Window Of Opportunity

Mother Nature has given us three straight days with no rain and the race is on!  Well, not really, but it has given us the opportunity to do some things we’ve been wanting to do for awhile.  We dug all of our garlic and shallots, dug up some of our onions,...

Some Sense Of Normal

Shew!  We made it through June.  It seems like I have been saying this at the end of every month though lately.  This has been a very rough year for farmers of all types of crops.  I know our neighboring farmers are way behind now with their hay making and wheat crops...