We have a total of eight fruit trees that we are going to create fruit tree guilds around. The basic idea around a fruit tree guild is using companion plants to perform most of the tasks that I would have to do manually, such as weed control, fertilization, and pest control. You can learn more […]
We are planting out this year’s garden as fast as we can. It is so nice to have the garden fence all done so we can keep the animals out…especially the chickens. We are up to about 15 raised beds, with quite a few additional small and large containers. Within the fenced in garden we
We used some of our excess logs that we didn’t want to burn in the wood stove for hugelkultur garden beds. Below are some pictures with descriptions of how we built them.You can read more about hugelkultur from richsoil.com, here. The main advantage to hugelkultur is that as the wood rots it will hold water
Why would two gainfully employed people quit their jobs in Dallas, Texas and move to rural Tennessee? By most people’s standards we are successful people living the American dream. However, after years of working in the city we became convinced that the nine-to-five corporate job, while living in the suburbs, was for us an unfulfilling,