Category Archives: Production Note

Such wonderful sleeping weather these past couple nights

This journal entry is for Trace!!!! Yes, finally I am taking the time to write in our journal and let me tell you why… Because here in the mountains we are having cooler weather, with finally the nighttime temperatures dropping, making for some fabulous sleeping. This helps motivate me in completing my nightly chores such as journal […]

Count our blessings we have water and an approved site plan!

We live here in the Appalachians and have plenty of water for irrigating our crops, processing/packing our crops after harvest and for our daily use such as bathing, drinking and washing our clothes. Interesting article of others worries which makes ours seem ridiculous. We worry sometimes that we might have a production gap for our […]

Another 3 little pigs have arrived at the farm from Warren Wilson!

We love our Warren Wilson piggies because they are so social, mostly because they spend the first few weeks of their life on campus with a lot of loving students, thus receiving all kinds of attention from the time they are born. Some folks ask why we always raise 3 pigs together. The answer is […]

Dryer weather makes for some huge accomplishments!

The weather has been cooperating with us and in between rain showers we were able to transplant around 3/4 acre of onions and about 1/2 acre of potatoes.   We even transplanted another succession of broccoli.  Now we need to plow our summer growing area and are once again praying for dry weather so we can […]

On the long road to farm vacations

With the weather warming it seems that everything on the farm is moving much too quickly for me with the exception of seed starting.  Perhaps it is my age or maybe because I am a little apprehensive about farm vacations. The ground finally thawed and Alvin and his brother Joe began working on the road […]

Farm vacations here we come…

In the next year and a half we hope to be offering farm vacations. For the past 5 years, with the exception of the last 2 winters, Carl and I have been doing computer work during the winter and for a few hours each week during our growing season, which considerably supplemented our farming income. […]

It is cover cropping time but a lot of work is needed to make it happen!

I love this time of the season when we are mowing down spent crops, pulling up black plastic and disking the soil in preparation for cover crops. The farm looks so neat when we can no longer see a field of weeds that took over our spent crops. We had BIG plans for seeding buckwheat […]

Great Winter Squash yield, new chicks and roasted Peppers!

The past couple weeks have been spent harvesting winter squash. Many of the plants just up and died due to the high humidity and rain. Our squash probably died of powdery mildew. Although we haven’t had much rain, only a few sporadic showers totaling 1/200 of an inch which is enough to increase our humidity […]

Of course, it rained an inch once we drip irrigated our crops!

Carl is back home (THANK GOODNESS) and last week he was able to connect our drip irrigation, and then after drip irrigating our crops for a few hours (these crops being peppers, basil, eggplant, winter squash and melons), it rained almost an inch that evening! In addition, he figured out why our irrigation was not […]

The wood shed posts are set!

This past week we set the posts for the wood shed, which means plumbing and concreting them, meanwhile measuring to be sure they are spaced according to our wood shed plans so their alignment can be adjusted appropriately. NOTICE THE BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAINS IN THE BACKGROUND SPLATERED WITH FALL COLORS! Our valley is gorgeous and we are blessed to […]