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Farm Thursday: Preparing for The Growing Season

We love winter on the farm. In Middle Tennessee we only get snow occasionally, and that makes it more special to us. We inevitably turn that occasional snow into snow cream, and hope to have at least a few trips down a steep hill on a sled before it’s gone. Winter is the time of

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Farm Thursday: Signs of Early Spring on The Farm

Spring has come early on the farm. We are already seeing the yellow and white blooms of flowers and trees. We’ve been walking around and making plans on where everything will be planted in the next few months. This is still the fun stage. We look forward to it now even though by August we

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Finally, a Weekend Away

This past weekend Jamie and I attended the 2018 PickTN Conference in Chattanooga, TN. Being busy newbie farmers leaves us little time for couple getaway weekends, so we made the most of it and found some interesting places to stop along the way. The first place we found was Mooney’s Emporium in Monteagle, TN. The

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Our First 500 Trees

There are few things more rewarding than the exhaustion you feel from working hard for a purpose, especially when that purpose is achieving your dream. I wouldn’t say it went off without a hitch. There were plenty of hitches. Two of which were when I dropped my non-water resistant iPhone in the toilet not once,

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For the Love of Christmas

Jamie and I have been known to make impulsive decisions. We are committed to each other and strangely to our vehicles, but not much else. I haven’t gone to the same hair stylist or dentist more than twice since I was eighteen and living with my parents. Jamie and I have lived in eight different