Farm Happening Newsletters

Fruit & nut plants are here! Last week we received our yearly delivery of fruit plants best suited to grow in our climate. Many are at the farm right now, and are being transitioned to the hardware store in the…
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Broccoli Season Has Begun! Broccoli is one of our favorite crops to grow. Many of our fall crops, including broccoli, collards, and kale will really take off after the amazing rain we have had over the past several days! Ruth is a hardworking…
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We still have maters! Our mid-July planting of tomatoes is healthy and the tomatoes are enormous – we think they will start ripening after we get some rain this week. Our mid-June planting is still producing, but we sell out fast –…
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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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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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