The Fall Planting Frenzy Continues Last week Gaspar and Pressly planted several more rows of broccoli, collards, and flowers that will bloom in the spring. This week we will till up more land and sow more arugula, kale, mustard, bok…
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Summer is still here I really thought the heat wave would be over by now. But it sure didn’t let up last week – such a scorcher! The summer veggies do not mind. We are beginning to overlap seasons with…
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August is a beautiful month I love the various stages of growth and beauty that overlap at this time of year. Young fall greens and broccoli, summer okra in its prime, flowers beginning to fade, late tomatoes about to produce,…
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Seeds: The past couple of weeks have involved lots of seeds – getting Renfrow Hardware’s seed racks full of freshly bagged fall crops; planting my own arugula, beet, carrot, collard, kale, and radish seeds before the rains came; and tending to…
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Our Farmin’ Family! We had an amazing photographer out at the farm last week to capture this season’s fleeting beauty. Emily got so many awesome shots of the produce, flowers, market stand, chickens, customers, and my family! Here I am with…
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Dry, cracked, sad, dusty dirt. That’s what this thirsty swale, designed to capture excessive rainfall, looks like. All of our fields are in varying degrees of similar stress. This week we are pulling up a lot of plants that have just…
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Rehearsal dinner arrangements sitting in my house last week, ready to be taken to Asheboro for the weekend celebrations. Williams Wedding Flowers Weekend = SUCCESS!! My mom and I had a blast harvesting and arranging wedding reception and rehearsal dinner…
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Wedding Flowers My husband’s brother is getting married this weekend, and I have grown most of the flowers for the rehearsal dinner and reception. Don’t you love this soft, feminine color palette?! This will be my second wedding in which I…
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Sunrises and Sunsets With this seemingly never-ending stream of days in the upper 90s, lots of farm workdays begin with the sunrise and end with the sunset, with a few hours of work indoors in the afternoon to break up…
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Sunflower Season We are growing several different varieties of specialty sunflowers this year. These sunflowers will be available all week. Additional produce, herbs, pesto, & flowers will also be available as individual items in a farm-stand style setup inside the…
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