On today’s episode we review our Mercantile season opening; the successes and challenges. As always, we learned and are making a few changes. One of the lessons learned is to make our opening hours more consistent. To that end we have changed our hours to 12:00 PM (noon) to 4:00 PM both Friday and Saturday. … Continue reading "166-Season Opener at the Mercantile"

It’s that time of year! We are excited to start our on-farm Mercantile season. Beginning Friday, March 19 2021, the Mercantile will be open on Fridays from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM and Saturdays from 12:00 PM (noon) until 4:00 PM. More hours and deliveries will be added. You can order ahead through our online … Continue reading "165-The Mercantile is Opening"

With the arrival of warmer weather, the outdoor tasks at the farm begin in earnest. In addition to planting, transplanting and taking out invasive plants, we are preparing for the season opening of the Mercantile. On Friday, March 19, 2021 from 10:00AM – 2:00PM we will open the Mercantile. Our onsite store features great products … Continue reading "164-Spring Has Arrived"

As the title of this episode suggests, we are starting to see warmer temperatures in East Central Illinois. Those warmer temperatures allow us to begin the outdoor tasks like removing invasive plant species and burning up the cuttings. We also have been able to check on the honeybees. We may have lost one colony over … Continue reading "163-It is Almost Spring at the Farm"

The long cold days are about to come to an end and we are thankful. We have also set Friday, March 19, 2021 as the season opening of the Mercantile. Between those two things, we are working hard to fill our product stock now while we have the chance. As soon as the weather breaks, … Continue reading "162-Filling Our Time by Filling Stock"

It is mid-February 2021 and the Farm is deep in the grip of a Polar Vortex. For us, that means temperatures hovering near 0º with windchills even lower. It is too cold to work outside even though we are chomping at the bit to begin gardening. Even with the uncooperative weather, we are still able … Continue reading "161-Polar Vortex at the Farm"

Once again, it has been a busy week here at Five Feline Farm. As promised, we launched the long awaited gardening course. It is loaded with videos, tip sheets, discussion forums and downloadable documents. We will add to this throughout the year, so by the time next January rolls around, there will be a full … Continue reading "160-Course Launch, Gert’s Garden and a Kitten"

The day has finally arrived! Today, February 1, 2021 is the official release date of our new online course “Gardening the Five Feline Farm Way“. This episode describes our last week of progress toward this year long goal. Plus we discuss the content of the course, how we will be adding to the content and … Continue reading "159-Garden Course Launch"

On this episode we revisit a series of firsts in this business. First garden, first cookbook, first podcast, first market plans. We discuss how far we have come in the past few years and talk about a few of our plans for the future. If you haven’t already let us know you are interested in … Continue reading "158-Celebrating Firsts"

Did you know the gardening season begins in January, even when it is snowing? It does here at Five Feline Farm! This episode is chock full of what we have accomplished in the past week. We are recording video of each step and will release that in Five Feline Farm School within a couple of … Continue reading "157-Gardening Begins in January"