Do you see the little light green cone of tiny berries on this tree? This is a sumac tree, (no, not poison sumac!). This one is a few...

I hope you are as excited as I am to see photos of the garden beds. I realize this photo may look like yet another mess of little green...

We have moved all the little plants we started from seed! They are now outside in full sun, day and night, and almost all are in the...

Iris are in bloom! We probably have 100 tall gorgeous light purple (and a few yellow and white) blooms. It's easy to get distracted...

Found some horsetail in the garden! I had not noticed it growing here last year, or in previous years, (we were growing willows here...

We had to enlarge the blackberry cages again because the little bushes are growing up. Luckily we have not seen any animal impact (knock...

Many tree companies are happy to drop off fresh wood chips for free when they are in your area. This is the remainder of our second big...

We planted onions and peppers in this row, as they like each other, and I'm happy to report, it looks like they are growing nicely.

Breeding seeds has been happening since, oh, a long time ago. Sometimes they were bred for drought resistance, or pest resistance, or...

We have a water source near the farm. (Yay). It comes up from the 140' pipe that we drilled down a few years ago. I love having the...

Sometimes it is important to throw well. To start something in motion, to control where it's going. It's also useful to know how to...

I did can some food many years ago, and I get the idea in theory, but since I plan to can most of our tomato harvest, I thought I should...

Our stakes are up and wires stretched! You can see all the rows where we planted tomatoes, ready for climbing vines! Cautiously...

We knew we were making a living fence when we cut some of our black locust trees and used them for fence posts. We didn't quite realize...

We grew peppers from seed this year. We put them in tiny paper cups with soil and water, then sat them under grow lights, then after a...

Not long ago, about 10 days actually, we sprinkled some lovely calendula seeds along the edges of the upper garden. You can see a seed...

The weather is warming, so we put in our little lemon grass plugs. We got a whole tray of them! Hoping to dry most of the harvest for...

Our baby basil is in! I took this picture a few days after it was planted and I think it's happy in it's new home. You can see we are...

We got 30 crowns of asparagus and put them in the ground about a week or so ago. I know we can't harvest until next year, so I wasn't...

We are adding some rich compost from Holiday Farm to our new garden beds, unloading from our tractor bucket one shovel full at a time. ...