Longleaf Breeze came with a one-acre pond. We've known all along that we wanted to make it a reliable food source. Today's program is all about our plan, how it came to be, and how we're implementing it one step at a time

We finished the raised beds this week. Think we're excited? Here's what we’ve learned, how we built the beds, what it took to place them, what we’re learning about growing in them, and even the lessons we’ve learned about irrigating them

Transition talk about garlic, cover crops, strawberries, new raised beds, spring peas, asparagus, seedlings, trellises, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, golden kiwi, blueberries, plums, peaches, and pears

This week’s podcast covers the advantages and disadvantages of using raised beds, how to build them, where to put them, what to put in them, and how to make them work better

We've done okay with pests in the garden like deer, rabbits, and even aphids. Moles and voles are driving us crazy. We don't know we're getting attacked until the damage is already done. Here's what has NOT worked and what we're trying now

It's good we didn't plant heat-loving veg early the way we planned. Hard freeze on March 27. We got about the expected level of damage on the blueberries, more than expected on the figs, and less than expected on the peaches and pears

Every year about this time we find ourselves racing the clock to get fruit trees planted. Muscadines, kiwifruit, loquat, blueberry, and blackberry all are going into the ground, and most of them later than they should be

This week we got our first chance to use the lodge for a large workshop. Today Amanda and I describe the coverage of the workshop, how our guests seemed to react to the facilities, and what we've learned after hosting such a large event

We apologize for our failure to keep good records even while acknowledging the importance of doing so. The location of underground utility lines, plantings on Veg Hill, fruit trees in the orchard, and soon now, the money we’re spending off the farm

We depend on a heat mat and a grow light to give our seedlings the heat and light they need in their early development. The program this week includes lots of tips we’ve learned along the way, mostly from doing it the wrong way first!