It was great to see everyone last week at our first full share distribution! We are excited again for this coming distribution and wanted to remind all shareholders to be sure to email us your desired pick-up location and day. No worries if you missed us last weekend; though we hope to see you [...]
Archive for the ‘Farm and Garden’ Category
This Week’s Produce!
Posted in Farm and Garden, Other, Yokna Bottoms on June 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
June Distribution Information
Posted in CSA, Events, Farm and Garden, News, Yokna Bottoms on June 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We are excited to announce that after four months of hard work, food is finally on the way! We have had a limited internet presence lately because we have been busy building trellises to support the rapidly growing tomatoes, peppers, beans, cucumbers, and eggplants. Everything we have planted is doing well. The purpose of [...]
Let it grow …
Posted in CSA, Farm and Garden, Other, Yokna Bottoms on May 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Things are looking great in the garden! We have two 50 ‘ x 100′ sections of summer crops fully planted and will have our third filled by the end of the weekend. Nearly all of the plants that we direct-seeded are poking their heads out of the dirt and those we transplanted (eggplant, peppers, tomatos, and collards) [...]
You Can Never Hold Back Spring
Posted in Farm and Garden, News, Other, Yokna Bottoms on May 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From 5:00 pm Friday through Sunday at 2:00 pm, we received 4.6″ of rain in our rain gage. Once the sun came out on Sunday evening we cautiously made our way down to check on the plants. Everything is fine. In fact, the seeds we planted in the bottoms have all germinated and the field [...]
Planting is under way!
Posted in CSA, Farm and Garden, Yokna Bottoms on April 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Come out and help this weekend! Yesterday, we planted our first summer crops in our fields in the bottoms. We planted one row of 50 Beefsteak Tomato seedlings. This is just the beginning and we are going to be planting all weekend. Saturday from first light to sunset we will be in the fields and [...]
Farm Journal, March 22, 2010
Posted in Farm and Garden, Yokna Bottoms on March 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Farm Journal, March 22, 2010 Light dusting of snow yesterday morning—After 8 days without rain, a strong low pressure system (spring storm) moved over north Mississippi Saturday night and early Sunday bringing heavy rain (approximately 1”) that turned to brief snow showers as the temperature dropped Sunday morning. There was much moisture in the air [...]
Fence
Posted in Farm and Garden, News, Yokna Bottoms on March 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Building a Fence Today we are going to begin construction of our wildlife fence. The fence is going to be 72” high (6’) wound wire, with a single strand of barbed wire at 7’. The fence is going to be anchored by 6’ high x 6” wide round posts. Three posts at a right angle [...]
Compost
Posted in Farm and Garden, Yokna Bottoms on March 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We view our compost as the key to growing vegetables without chemical fertilizers, pesticides or herbicides. In the words of Eliot Coleman, we are striving to “feed the soil and not the plant.” We now have a large pile that consists of approximately 50 tons of horse manure mixed with a large amount of leaves [...]
A Model and Vision for Oxford
Posted in CSA, Farm and Garden, News on February 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Excellent video on what some communities are doing already! Click the link below to watch. High Mowing Organic Seeds on “Dan Rather Reports” from High Mowing Organic Seeds on Vimeo.
Wendell Berry Talk …
Posted in Envi Lit/Philosophy, Farm and Garden on February 9, 2010 | 3 Comments »
This is an essay I presented to the Society of Philosophy and History of Education in 2008 in San Antonio, Texas. Yokna(Patawpha) Bottoms Farm is a realization of the values I articulated in this talk. SOPHE 2008 Wendell Berry Talk Douglas R. Davis This paper continues long-running themes I have explored over the years at [...]
