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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!
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Monthly Archives: June 2010
Summer Time & Green on the vine
I was outside this evening tiring up tomatoes..which have grown at least a couple of feet in the past week when I realized after all these years growing tomatoes I still enjoy, anticipate and appreciate what marvelous plants they are. No other vegetable on this farm garners more attention then the tomatoes nor is there [...]
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Vanity & Venting
I got this phone call the other day from our local PBS station show producer for the “Volunteer Gardener” wanting to come out to the farm next week and film a couple of segments for their show here on the farm. It’s funny because I have always loved that show even though I think it [...]
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The heat is on
I was working out in the field early yesterday morning weeding and planting when I noticed I was beginning to feel the heat start to affect me. It was around 9am but out temps were already hitting close to 100. This a been two weeks of this hot sticky weather with those dangerously high temperatures [...]
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Signs of things to come…or to bloom
Every year there is a sure sign of summer for me here on the farm and this towering sunflower is it. She is my calendar, my signal that from here on out things are going to get pretty warm around here. Lovely isn’t she? I never plant this sunflower here it re-seeds itself each year [...]
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The Proverbial green thumb
Forget about the per-verbal green thumb...there isn't one...or not one that I've seen anyway
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Dancing with Jasy
My daughter Jasy came to visit us this week from South Carolina. It is the first time I have got to wrap my arms around that child in 7 months. I miss her and that pretty face. I feel like I am turning into my Grandma Lynn though for I remember when my sister Patsy [...]
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Poke weed, Pig weed & rain dancing