Longleaf Breeze

Every now and then we need to do a show where we just summarize what's going on at Longleaf Breeze. And it's time. So today we talk about peas, cabbage, chard, strawberries, sweet...

It’s high time we planted some pecans, because it’ll take about ten years to get any nuts from them, and we’re not getting any younger! We're nearly certain we can't defend the eco...

We've had a good run with strawberries this year, our best crop ever. The season is waning now. We share with you what caused our crop to be better, how we planted and tended it, a...

We’ve been busy this week harvesting onion, and especially garlic. This week’s program is all about when, where, and how we planted it, how we’re curing it, and how we plan to stor...

The lows in the low 40s on Monday and Tuesday made us grateful again for the wood stove, but the cool mornings are already a distant memory. Summer’s here! Days are longer, we’ll b...

Starting out mild and delivering anemic chilling hours, the winter nevertheless demanded lots of heating, particularly in its waning months. March was colder than January. Today’s ...

Longleaf Breeze came with a one-acre pond. We've known all along that we wanted to make it a reliable food source. Today's program is all about our plan, how it came to be, and ho...

We finished the raised beds this week. Think we're excited? Here's what we’ve learned, how we built the beds, what it took to place them, what we’re learning about growing in them,...

Transition talk about garlic, cover crops, strawberries, new raised beds, spring peas, asparagus, seedlings, trellises, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, golden kiwi, blueberries,...

This week’s podcast covers the advantages and disadvantages of using raised beds, how to build them, where to put them, what to put in them, and how to make them work better...

We've done okay with pests in the garden like deer, rabbits, and even aphids. Moles and voles are driving us crazy. We don't know we're getting attacked until the damage is already...

It's good we didn't plant heat-loving veg early the way we planned. Hard freeze on March 27. We got about the expected level of damage on the blueberries, more than expected on the...