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Our Founding Fathers & Mothers...
These are the people who believed in our mission with their heart and... money! |
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Our Founding Fathers & Mothers...
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Roux
He loves being right here with us for lunch. He is gold, |
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Our favorite crop yet: our kids
We had children in our fields all year long. Check them out on our "Outreach" page. |
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Cover Crops
We used oats in Spring as we often do. |
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Egyptian Onions
Our earliest crop!! |
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Chard
Chard worked well this year. It is being re-mulched in this picture, |
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Spring Lettuce
In many ways, spring is the most challenging season for us. |
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Summer Lettuce
In Arkansas, summer lettuce is "technical". |
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Fall Lettuce
Why do I love those rows of lettuce so much?? |
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Lettuce Wash
Heads are cartted down to the shed and washed in well-water. |
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Weeding
We do not spend much time at it, but onions do get a trim or two. |
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Weeded!
Now we looking good. |
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Hoop Houses
The biggest change for 2009 was the season-long use of HH, here with early tomatoes. All we can say is: why did we wait so long?... |
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Tomato Treillis
Home-designed rebar treillis for all our tomatoes. |
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Cherry Tomatoes in Bloom
One cherry per flower. Lots! |
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Onion Harvest
We see here torpedo reds, leeks, red scallions and shallots. |
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Glory of Summer
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Watermelons
Those guys want to burst out of their beds. |
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Peppers are coming!
Peppers are so good to us. |
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The Shed
At times, this place is buzzing.. |
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Shed & Greenhouse
View from the field. |
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Greenhouse
The greenhouse is used entirely for "starts"and to stay warm in winter. |
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Lunch
We all are very focused and yet lunch is mostly improvised any day. But we all agree that eating together is the magic glue. |
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Lunch Again
We often have people drop by, sometimes just for lunch. But that's completely OK! |
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Market Pic
Trying to make the biggest mounds of veggies ever! |
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Market Pic
Early Fall market table with hot and cool weather crops mingling. |
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Market Pic
Color in the Peppers! |
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We are ready for winter farming!
Our 3 hoop houses have sustained 8 inch ice storms and heavy snows. Winds also have gusted around 70 mph... So we trust them. |
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