Category Archives: MS

‘2024 Harvest

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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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Delta Pond Transformation

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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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Joy and a revisit to an earlier post

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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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Bumper Crop – Sort of …..

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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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Chrysler 60

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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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Red Oak Cutting/Serving Board

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This 13″ x 28″ solid red oak cutting board received a couple of coats of non-toxic mineral oil and a wax treatment (not what you are thinking although a shot of mineral oil and a wax never hurt anybody) and … Continue reading

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Tomato Sauce on Grill?

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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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Painted Buntings

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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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Horned Owls

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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

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Red Oak Salvage

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In the hardwood bottom-lands of the Mississippi Delta, large oaks, maples and hickorys die every day.  Some just get old and fall.  Some are unlucky enough to get struck by lightning and crash to the ground suddenly.   In any … Continue reading

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