Longleaf Breeze

Amanda describes her work on Veg Hill pulling the bolting collards and rescuing that lone kohlrabi left over from the fall. Lee talks about bush-hogging and taking down the magnifi...

Chickens make so much sense for subsistence farming. The manure, the soil fertility, and of course, the EGGS! As soon as we finish the lodge, we’ll build one chicken tractor and be...

We’ve dropped the description of ourselves here as “BEGINNERS Learning Subsistence Farming.” We reflect on what we didn’t know when we started, on our chicken wire veg “cage,” and ...

If the planet is getting hotter - and we think it is - we will have fewer fruit chilling hours in the future. The muscadines, figs, and blueberries will be fine, as will most of th...

Our friends make us jealous when they talk about their asparagus, so we planted our crowns this week! Asparagus tastes great, and it’s a perennial that needs remarkably little care...

Something turns up missing around here nearly every day. Tools, the Spring veg Amanda planted, and those trees on our neighbor’s property sacrificed for the timber money. Good news...

Enough of the winter lull. Spring is arriving, and we need to get busy. We need to update the orchard database, start seeds, mulch young trees, and dispatch those varmints on Veg H...

We’ve just spent some time with conscientious Alabama fruit and vegetable growers. It’s striking and depressing how much poison they use in growing our food. Today’s podcast finish...

Dealing with critters has been a challenge from the initial deer devastation of the summer of 2009 straight through to today. We understand we can't protect against all damage fr...

We talked in December about how we’re changing the way we grow fruits and vegetables in response to climate change. Today we deal with how we’re preparing the forest that covers mo...

Brassicas are the heart of our fall veg. Collards, kale, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, kohlrabi, and that scrumptious cauliflower. They’re cold hardy and grow straight throu...

It’s winter, but our focus is on seed. We’ve saved seed for the first time this year, we’re buying lots of seed too. We’ll start seed in flats, but we hope we’ll do a better job th...