Podcast #208 – What We’ve Learned About Using a Clothesline
We’ve talked before about our clothesline, but we’ve never listed the lessons we’ve learned about using it. That’s the focus of today’s program.
We’ve talked before about our clothesline, but we’ve never listed the lessons we’ve learned about using it. That’s the focus of today’s program.
We’ve had four great podcasts in which we had the chance to visit with smart folks who have much to teach us, but it’s been quite a while since we brought you up to date on what we’ve been seeing and doing here on the farm. So that’s what we […]
We’re proud when we have a bumper harvest like the ones we had this year with sweet potatoes and muscadines. And in our happiest moments we like to think our work as subsistence farmers is a tiny part of a gentle global revolution that could help to feed the world’s […]
It may have been a sopping wet summer, but most people growing in Alabama know how ephemeral that can be.
We pay close attention to Transition Voice. Co-editors Erik and Lindsay Curren serve up a consistent helping of wisdom, insight, and fresh thinking about the challenges we humans face.
What a fun afternoon we had with the students at AUM yesterday! This post is to provide resources to the students who attended that class.
Each year as we struggle with hornworms on our tomatoes, we’ve eyed with jealous interest those photos of parasitic wasps that prey on hornworms.
We grow sweet potatoes every year, because they’re healthy and tasty and because they keep well through the winter with no refrigeration or processing.
We are inspired by the story of how Gabe Brown, a rancher in North Dakota, has managed with careful use of some basic techniques to more than triple the organic content and fertility of his soil.
We depend on our wood-burning stoves, one in the lodge and one in the barn, to stay warm during our mild Alabama winters, so we pay lots of attention to firewood.