More questions are asked about our yellow Romano beans than all our other produce combined. Most people have never seen such a bean before. The most common is by far, “What is that?” I learned from a local real estate agent that the “What’s that?” factor is bad. Really bad. That’s perfectly valid when buyingContinue reading “Meet the humble Romano bean”
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Scaling up
We tripled our flock last spring. Until then, we’d only had 8-12 birds at a time. But now, I wanted 32! Flock-keeping circles on the internet call it “chicken math.” I actually intend to get another 8-10 black copper marans from a fellow vendor because that breed lays beautiful, deep brown eggs (more chicken math!).Continue reading “Scaling up”
Working with a beast
Because we’re low-till in Georgia, the clay soil has to be broken up somehow. This requires measures some might call extreme. It requires a tool many may no longer recognize — a tool that to me resembled a medieval torture device when I first saw it. It is known as the broadfork. This particular versionContinue reading “Working with a beast”
The Best of Intentions
There’s a saying about good intentions and a road paved to… somewhere. Well it’s not quite that bad on our little patch of dirt, but the fall and winter certainly weren’t quite as productive as we’d hoped, which has made spring 2023 extra busy. The biggest change is that we have expanded our flock withContinue reading “The Best of Intentions”
The Off Season
As the curtain comes down on our 2022 CCFM season, it would seem like a good time to take a break, rest, and relax. And there may be a little R&R in there somewhere. But it’s really the best time both to tend to our fall and winter garden and to plan and experiment inContinue reading “The Off Season”
Veggie Charm Gardens 