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Longleaf Breeze
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Weekly update from two subsistence organic farmers in the deep South
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133 - Annual Review Part 2 - Gotta Be Fun
Longleaf Breeze
14y ago
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#We say our work needs to be fun while we’re doing
#And we care about those results. Lee’s work on the
#As does Amanda’s seed starting. Not so the weeding
132 - Annual Review Part 1 - Approaching Subsistence
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14y ago
23:01
131 - Lupin Is Pretty Cool
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14y ago
20:05
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130 - About That Lodge . . .
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14y ago
19:44
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129 - Transitioning Into Summertime
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14y ago
19:26
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128 - Chicken Dreams Morphing into Plans
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14y ago
19:41
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127 - Beginners No More
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14y ago
21:04
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126 - Growing Fruit in a Hotter Orchard
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14y ago
20:37
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125 - Asparagus!
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14y ago
18:29
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124 - What Happened To . . . ?
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14y ago
21:10
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123 - Kickin' It Back Up
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14y ago
15:45
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122 - A Culture of Poison
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14y ago
21:52
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121 - Critters in the Garden
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14y ago
16:58
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120 - Preparing the Forest for a Scary Future
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14y ago
21:19
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119 - Let's Talk Brassicas
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15y ago
24:57
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118 - All About Seed
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15y ago
20:25
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117 - Orchard and Fruit Update
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15y ago
19:26
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116 - Looking Back, Looking Forward
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15y ago
19:29
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115 - Eating What We Own
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15y ago
20:30
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114 - Proud to Wish You "Happy Holidays"
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15y ago
9:28
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#Mother's Day is always time for our annual review
#This year in three parts. Today it's all about app
#Vegetables
#Grains
#Sunn hemp is a great summer cover crop
#But what to plant in the winter? Today we share wh
#Which has worked well for us. We share what we did
#And we finish with whether you can eat the lupin b
#Amanda and I are getting more excited now as we wa
#Argued about
#And planned for take shape. We are far enough alon
#What is informing its design
#Amanda describes her work on Veg Hill pulling the
#Chickens make so much sense for subsistence farmin
#The soil fertility
#And of course...
#The EGGS! As soon as we finish the lodge
#We’ve dropped the description of ourselves here as
#On our chicken wire veg “cage
#” and on the startling growth of our asparagus fer
#If the planet is getting hotter - and we think it
#Figs
#And blueberries will be fine
#As will most of the blackberries. The apples? The
#Our friends make us jealous when they talk about t
#So we planted our crowns this week! Asparagus tast
#And it’s a perennial that needs remarkably little
#Something turns up missing around here nearly ever
#The Spring veg Amanda planted
#And those trees on our neighbor’s property sacrifi
#Though: the missing daikon radish seeds turned up!
#Enough of the winter lull. Spring is arriving
#And we need to get busy. We need to update the orc
#Start seeds
#Mulch young trees
#We’ve just spent some time with conscientious Alab
#Dealing with critters has been a challenge from th
#We talked in December about how we’re changing the
#Brassicas are the heart of our fall veg. Collards
#Kale
#Broccoli
#Brussels sprouts
#It’s winter
#But our focus is on seed. We’ve saved seed for the
#We’re buying lots of seed too. We’ll start seed in
#But we hope we’ll do a better job this year tracki
#It will be time soon enough to prune our fruit tre
#Our plans for strawberries
#Olives
#Pomegranates
#For 2011 we wanted to expand the orchard
#Get to know our neighbors
#And sell our city house. How did we do? For 2012
#We want to finish the lodge
#We’re moving toward subsistence with our food supp
#It’s veg
#A mix of canned
#Fresh
#We’re three days from Christmas
#A special day indeed for us Christians. We’re also
#Not just tolerating
#Our differences.
