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If part of expertise is understanding what you don’t know, we’re practically professionals. We’re painfully aware on a daily basis of how little we know, so we have high hopes for all we’ll learn in the Master Gardener program.

When she was a child, our daughter Adrian and her female cousins loved to spend the night with their Gran, my Mom. Every time they did, they ate the same food, slept on the same pallet on the same spot in Gran’s bedroom, watched the same movies (Sarah Plain and […]

It was one night early. “Official” full moon isn’t until tonight, but you could’ve fooled us. It sure looked full enough as we reveled in it last night, watching the moonshine play with the ground-bound objects that have become so familiar to us here at Longleaf Breeze.

Muscadines grow wild here at Longleaf Breeze, so we have high hopes for cultivating them on Veg Hill. I did a poor job of designing their trellis, however; not enough strength.

One of the things we’ve learned in our brief farm education at Longleaf Breeze is that you want your plants to get vertical if you can, so they can make better use of the light and stay well ventilated. For us, that means trellises. We’ve learned what crops need trellises, […]

We can’t keep saying we’re moving in when we’ve been here for more than eight months. We need to get all that stuff we brought here organized! In the process, we have loved living more simply, avoiding accumulating things we don’t care about. We’ve set multiple but identical shelving units […]

It’s that brutal time in central Alabama when the extreme heat slows everything down. Most of Veg Hill is nearly comatose, but not the okra! It just keeps popping up and producing. Every day it’s producing new pods ready to harvest, and we know from experience that okra produces better […]