I have been really over doing it here on the farm as far as working goes. Morning and evenings find me out in field and mid-day cleaning house and chasing Lucca around…summer board-em for an 8-year-old. I tried my best to make a list of all the things I need to make for the market [...]
Archive for June, 2010
Tell me it’s monday…please
Posted in Uncategorized on June 30, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Poke weed, Pig weed & rain dancing
Posted in Uncategorized on June 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
So, today I am doing my Indian rain dance…We need to have a good inch dropped here on the farm to recover from a couple of weeks without rain. The heat being what it is has sucked the soil dry and the plants are stressed…really stressed. I was watering yesterday evening just to keep them [...]
Vanity & Venting
Posted in Uncategorized on June 21, 2010 | 7 Comments »
I got this phone call the other day from our local PBS station show producer for the “Volunteer Gardener” wanting to come out to the farm next week and film a couple of segments for their show here on the farm. It’s funny because I have always loved that show even though I think it [...]
The heat is on
Posted in Uncategorized on June 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I was working out in the field early yesterday morning weeding and planting when I noticed I was beginning to feel the heat start to affect me. It was around 9am but out temps were already hitting close to 100. This a been two weeks of this hot sticky weather with those dangerously high temperatures [...]
Signs of things to come…or to bloom
Posted in Uncategorized on June 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Every year there is a sure sign of summer for me here on the farm and this towering sunflower is it. She is my calendar, my signal that from here on out things are going to get pretty warm around here. Lovely isn’t she? I never plant this sunflower here it re-seeds itself each year [...]
The Proverbial green thumb
Posted in Learning as we grow, Organic, Uncategorized, tagged farming, Madison Creek Farms, Organic on June 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Forget about the per-verbal green thumb…there isn’t one…or not one that I’ve seen anyway
Dancing with Jasy
Posted in Uncategorized on June 3, 2010 | 8 Comments »
My daughter Jasy came to visit us this week from South Carolina. It is the first time I have got to wrap my arms around that child in 7 months. I miss her and that pretty face. I feel like I am turning into my Grandma Lynn though for I remember when my sister Patsy [...]
