Longleaf Breeze

This is our "second summer" when nearly everything but the okra slows down on Veg Hill. Today we cover what has already shut down, what's still producing well, and what's still on ...

We talk about why you should want to help organic subsistence farmers like us, and then on how you can do so. You could become one! And even if you can’t see yourself as a farmer, ...

Could we adapt to the crushing changes coming if we still lived in the suburbs? We would build raised beds for food, keep laying hens for eggs and maybe meat rabbits too. We would ...

Most Americans preparing food start with a recipe, and then we go buy the ingredients we need. At Longleaf Breeze we start with whatever’s lovely and in season. Then we try to figu...

We talk blueberries, blackberries, persimmons, figs, muscadines, apples, pears, and even olives. Then we go to Veg Hill and reflect on tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, beans, peas, and...

As new farmers, we focused almost exclusively on annuals. As we do this more, we’re paying more attention to perennials that require less seeding and planting each year, like fruit...

We love the roles and relationships we’ve formed with our church and community, but lately we’ve neglected work on the farm to attend to all our commitments. We must stay engaged, ...

Our annual review ends with allness statements and the ease with which we avoid them. We consider and reject a handful we could be making. We finish with our quasi-principle of alw...

We say our work needs to be fun while we’re doing it. At least for us: that means we can see the results of the work, and we care about those results. Lee’s work on the driveway qu...

Mother's Day is always time for our annual review, this year in three parts. Today it's all about approaching but never reaching subsistence. We look at fruits, vegetables, grains,...

Sunn hemp is a great summer cover crop, but what to plant in the winter? Today we share what we know about sweet lupin, which has worked well for us. We share what we did wrong in ...

Amanda and I are getting more excited now as we watch the lodge we’ve dreamed of, argued about, and planned for take shape. We are far enough along now to share with you why we’re ...