After this summer, Amanda will be a retired professor. At 56, she is young to be leaving teaching, but her colleagues who have preceded her into retirement are unanimous: “Do it! You’ll never regret it.” I believe they are right; I believe we will be glad we have made the […]
Behold, mere mortals! Fear us, for we at Longleaf Breeze have learned how to create a drought! All we have to do is plant our garden.
Ain’t Earth Day fun? For one day out of 365, even the mainstream media get all excited about what we can do to live more sustainably. Tomorrow, of course, they’ll be back to explaining how things will be fine once we get the economy Back to Normal, but for today, […]
This will seem hopelessly elementary to many of you, but you need to understand just how much we have to learn, so I’m telling you blow-by-blow what we did to plant our first garden, blunders and all.
When we first started shopping for a tractor for Longleaf Breeze more than a year ago, my brother Dave Gray told me to make sure it had a front-end loader. I complied with his instructions, even though I didn’t understand why it was important. Now I know.
Here are the words no subsistence farmer wants to hear about something he’s already done: “Youdonwannadothat.” That’s what I heard from the nice guy who often helps me at Verbena Farm Supply.
As promised, here’s an update on the injury to my knee that I told you about in February and again a couple of weeks ago. The news could hardly be any better than this.
