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My grandfather Jack built the place that I currently call home. While I barely knew him (I was 3 when he died in 1963), my work growing food and woodworking on the farm land he developed has keep me close … Continue reading
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Late in 2022, we finally finished building the “high tunnel” at the farm. The HT looks like a greenhouse but differs in several significant ways. The first is that the HT structure is unheated and uses solar radiation only to … Continue reading
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Recently, we partnered with the local NRCS office to construct a high tunnel (HT) on our property. I’ve wanted to try one of these for years. The NRCS has a cost sharing program for those small farms that meet certain … Continue reading
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As I was working on the property yesterday, I thought about comparing a picture of the ponds on the property today with what they looked like when I built them back in 2013. Here is today’s view of the same … Continue reading
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On a recent return to the MS Delta, I was listening to a young author and film maker being interviewed on the radio while driving my tractor. The interviewer asked the young lady if she had any advice for others … Continue reading
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Last fall I dropped by the farm in Mississippi for a few days for a visit. Not having much time to plan out a proper fall planting, I decided to use a “shotgun” approach. First, I purchased some bulk seed … Continue reading
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Recently, I began re-reading my grandmothers diary from the year 1927. It’s the only year that we have as far as I know and the same year a flood of biblical proportions visited the Mississippi Delta and submerged my grandparents … Continue reading
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Each year people buy millions of jars of commercially produced tomato sauce from grocery stores. This food item is a fundamental building block of our diets. However, cooking fresh tomatoes on the stove to a mouth watering sauce is as … Continue reading
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Spring in the lower MS delta brings many varieties of songbirds that favor the swamp as the place to make their nests and raise their young. As always, we are always on the lookout for the arrival of our “holy … Continue reading
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At the east end of the property, there is a woodlot of Honey Locust trees that my grandfather planted. He planted this patch of trees to grow fence posts for his dairy farm as Locust is one of the most … Continue reading
