Category Archives: Gardening

Potato Planting Time!

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Daniel

April 1st is our target date to plant potatoes. Planting potatoes is quite simple and extremely rewarding. Come July or so, if all goes well, these small spuds will have multiplied into a dozen respectable potatoes and will be ready for Anna to turn them into … Continue reading →

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Healing the Land – Snapshot 2

Posted on February 11, 2015 by David

If you’ve ever tried to till up a plot of Georgia Red Clay that hasn’t been amended in any way, your thoughts will immediately try to figure out how to heal such dirt – something that hard when dry and … Continue reading →

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Sweet Potato Harvest

Posted on December 5, 2014 by Willie

Have you ever grown Sweet Potatoes?  This year was my first time trying it.  Mama had a couple leftover potatoes that had begun to sprout, so I tried growing them two different ways.  The larger sprouts I broke off and … Continue reading →

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Planting Strawberries and other Fall Crops!

Posted on November 26, 2014 by David

No, don’t go plant your fall crops now; we planted ours a couple of months ago, but I’m just now getting this post put together. When we got our gardens ready for the fall crops several weeks ago I posted about … Continue reading →

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Getting Ready for Fall Gardening

Posted on October 10, 2014 by David

Fall gardening has been a new frontier for us. In the past, by the time summer gardens were playing out, we never had the energy to figure out how to raise our own cabbage, collards, broccoli and the like. But … Continue reading →

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Pickin’ Pears the Easy Way!

Posted on August 14, 2014 by David

We’re fortunate to have good neighbors. The folks just across the street and down one house have been exceptional ones. Tina and I spent our first married year in a small upstairs apartment in a remodeled barn on their property. … Continue reading →

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Living Foods Dehydrator

Posted on August 12, 2014 by Tina

As promised, this post is about our wonderful dehydrator.  We like our dehydrator. Actually, we really, really like our dehydrator.  As a matter-of-fact, we love our dehydrator! We purchased it several years ago and have dried all sorts of food … Continue reading →

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Sugar Snap Peas

Posted on July 24, 2014 by Willie

What is long, thin, green, crunchy, delicious, and one of the first garden crops to harvest after the spring planting?  You guessed it, Sugar Snap Peas! I really like these tasty little critters that grow early in spring when it’s … Continue reading →

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Preserving Luscious Sweet Corn

Posted on July 18, 2014 by Tina

This year, we tried the sweet corn variety “Luscious” and boy, is it good! With all the wonderful rain the Lord sent earlier this year, our sweet corn patch really took off and produced wonderfully.  We began with Certified Organic … Continue reading →

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