September Newsletter

All about expansion and growth.  This past year we have been building, building, building! 

The new watermelon field turned out to be too small, so we will make that bigger next spring.

Watermelons, Squash and Cantaloupe

The pumpkin patch turned out to be too small, so we will be expanding that for next summer planting. 

Jack Be Little Pumpkins

The cut flower and sunflower rows for our ‘You-Pick’ flower season just keep expanding as well.  In another month we will put in hundreds of peony roots, hundreds of ranunculus corms, and over a thousand other perennial starts for early flowers next spring and summer.  You-Pick will be glorious, and direct selling of peonies will start after those establish over in their own field away from the You-Pick area.

In a few weeks we will be harvesting passion fruit for the first time.  

Also, just last week, we collected, three years after planting, our very first chestnuts!  Those dozen trees, out of over a hundred, are the earliest of the pack and we expect nuts from over a hundred trees next year.

Chestnuts

Also, next year, four different varieties of blueberry bushes will be in full production–about sixty bushes– so pounds and pounds of fruit coming in all season long.  We will have blackberries the size of your thumb on our sixty-ish thornless bushes (and about a dozen very, very, thorny bushes). We collected about twenty pounds of grapes from our driveway vineyard, so we just HAD to plant more.  Sixty more.  So, ya’ll can expect some heavyweight table grapes at the end of next summer.

Daytona Bunch Grapes

Stacy’s favorite thing right now is what we call ‘the side garden’.  We have been producing some amazing old-world varieties of eggplants, squash, and peppers that have been going mostly to local restaurants. The herb section is an amazing riot of growth. 

The Side Garden

We have even planted, and are processing in the traditional fermentation method, indigo for the richest blue dye powder you could imagine. 

Dried Indigo Powder for Dyeing

We have just started listing all these on the Huntsville Food & Farm Hub as well, so if you are local to Huntsville, Alabama, you can order on the weekend and pick up from a central location.

In the winter, we will also be expanding our willow farm, our walnut orchard, our hazelnut and pawpaw plantation, and adding more fig trees.  These all take time to start ramping up production, but nothing is ever fast on a farm except the daylight hours.

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Thanks

Stacy and Dan