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Welcome
Welcome to The Female Farmer! Life on a 38 acre organic farm...it's not always banjo's and butterflies out here on the farm, People!
Adventures around the compost bin....let fun begin.
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Planning, Preparing and Planting The Perfect Organic Kitchen Garden
You wouldn’t build a house without a house plan nor would you sew your own clothes without a pattern. The foundation of a good garden starts with a great garden plan.
The Family Garden
I grew up on a farm…my father was a farmer…my mother a blue ribbon gardener. By that I mean she won a bevy of blue ribbons every year at the county fair for her vegetables and canning. I guess I picked up on the love of growing things from them. When I was a little girl I [...]
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The Winter Farm Crew
Today was the first sunny day with the temperatures warm enough to be outside in weeks, we put on our farm gloves and ditched our heavy coats and headed for the field to get a little work done. We have a lot of beds to re-build and repair before the early planting season begins in February. We are [...]
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Over the past few weeks here on the farm while I have some time indoors….I have been catching on some reading. I thought I would share with you one of my favorite books I have read during this cold winter we have had. Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Best selling Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family take us on [...]
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Hatch Of New Baby Chicks
It has been bitterly cold the past couple of weeks here in Middle Tennessee with temps down to single digits. I have a couple of hens that have sat on a clutch of eggs and here during their last few days before they should hatch these hen needed some extra protection while they are sitting. [...]
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Madison Creek Farms "FarmHouse Style"
Fresh Ideas For Everyday Good Living …Madison Creek Farms
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They Don't Call It A FarmHouse For Nothing "Honey"….
The only real solution we have would be to lock all the chickens up in one place with heat to overnight them...but that would mean having to catch 50 loose “free lovin’ chickens in sub-zero temperatures
A Moment In Time
The arrival of a new year, they seem to be coming faster as time just somehow slips by me. I look to my children and I want to stop the clock and hold this moment forever. The passing of my mother-in-law just a few weeks ago is fresh in all our hearts and was especially [...]
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On The Road Again…Life B