A New Baby at Windy Acres Farm

Animals, Raw Milk

Sunday morning we awoke to a wonderful surprise, a brand new perfect little calf. Although we are always happy to have a new baby on the farm, the thought of more milk is really what we all had in mind as we cheered the good news. Thankfully Mom was able to have her...

Organic Gardening: What would you like to know?

Organic Gardening

Photo by Ian Britton at FreeFoto What have you always wanted to know about gardening? What scares you about organic gardening? What aspects of building and maintaining a garden confuse you or keep you from getting started? Have you always wanted to try growing a...

How To Grow More Vegetables Than You Ever Thought Possible

Book Reviews, Organic Gardening

How to Grow More Vegetables and Fruits (and Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops) Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine is the one absolutely positively indispensable gardening book in my library. It is ripped, filthy, filled with...

Where in the World is Debbie

Events

For the first time since losing my right hand gal in the store, I took last weekend off and attended a spinning retreat in Indiana. This was my 3rd year attending the retreat and now I am determined that I would not miss it for the world. Every year around 30 of the...

Growing Seedlings Indoors

Organic Gardening

For the adventurous and the thrifty minded among us growing your plants from seed is the way to go those plants that require a longer growing period or are harder to raise outdoors from seed. In the Nashville area those plants include, but are not limited to,...

Getting Ready for Planting

Organic Gardening

One of the most frustrating things that kept me out of the garden when I first got the gardening bug was missing the planting dates of my favorite foods. It always seemed that I would buy pea seeds and then find that the pea planting time had passed me and no one told...