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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: May 2011
On the road again
Back to life B for me this weekend touring in East Tennessee. Not that far from home on this little weekend line up of shows but never the less it gets me off the farm..out of my muck boots and into high heels and sparklingly earrings. Yes, I love the girlie stuff as much I [...]
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It’s all in the little things
With spring bidding us a sweet farewell and summer closing in our crops begin to change. It is always a sad thing for me to have to say goodbye to my spring crops…I don’t know why they are the only ones I feel so sad about moving on from. Maybe it’s due to the nice [...]
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Market, CSA and Everything in between
Farm Open Saturday 9-2pm Last Saturday was the opening day for our on-farm market. How much fun it was to see all those familiar faces we haven’t seen all winter plus we got to meet so many new people that had never been to the farm before. The market is and as been from the [...]
Give me a minute
Believe me when I tell you…this is why I have blog:) to talk to myself of course! What are your goals this year with the farm I say to myself? Like most farmers the answer is always to have a great growing season. But really…that is a goal? whether or not mother nature sees it [...]
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Let the season begin..Saturday 9-2pm. Farm Open!
Here we go…this Saturday we are opening the farm up to the public. This will be our 5th. season with the farm market pavilion being built and our farm hosting these little Saturday markets. Before we built the pavilion we were selling at farmers markets and to retail stores for half a decade. We have [...]
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Red Mustards…new to the market
There are a few field trials going on this year here at the farm for a few new varieties in vegetables and flowers. One of these new vegetable trials we are growing is Garnet Red Mustard Greens from Johnny Seeds in Maine. A cool weather crop that has really added a shot of color in [...]
A Blackberry Winter
Here we are in May and what’s that I hear…my weather bug on my computer warning me of a frost tonight! And if there is to be frost I am sure as peaches we here in this valley in Sumner County will get it. We sit in a little bit of a micro-climate as it [...]
Balance and forward motion
It is not an easy task running this farm, farming this farm and then there is marketing this farm…oh lets not forget baking, making and decorating this farm. I am just tired typing all that…There are so many hats to wear and no where near enough closet space to hang them. I tend to work [...]
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What its like to be apart of the farm’s CSA Program?