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Ours is a small family - owned and operated farm located in the rolling hills of the Piedmont Triad area of Guilford county in North Carolina.
This land has been in our family since 1796. Family history says that two brothers from Berk county, Pennsylvania came down here; liked what they saw and decided to stay.
Where once grew tobacco, are now fields of grain and seasonal fruits/vegetables. Dad started blueberries back in the 80's and blackberries were put in about five years later. But no one, at that time, cared much for blackberries. Now, they're all the rage.
January is when my brother works on the equipment. In February, I'll start seeds in the High Tunnel. My sister and her family help out where/when needed.
February gives me more than enough time for the two to three months that it'll take for the plants to be ready to set out. I prefer to grow our own transplants - not just to save money, but also to grow them organically.
As did my father and his father before him, I save seeds - it's the heirlooms that I store away. Once, years ago, Dad started a small garden at the end of an old field, mostly tomatoes. Around August (that year) some volunteers came up. Dad hadn't seen these kind of plants since he was a kid: Ground Cherries. There's no telling how long the seeds had been there. We'd had the field in wheat and orchardgrass for years. We saved the seeds and later planted some closer to home.
When I was but a wee lad, [i remember] finding mason jars full of bean seeds, tucked away in the wall of an old tobacco barn. These days our seeds are kept in the freezer; they keep viable for years.
.As this is a working farm and our home - [for insurance reasons & now covid-19 ] we don't accept visitors to our property without an appointment.
Ours is a small family - owned and operated farm located in the rolling hills of the Piedmont Triad area of Guilford county in North Carolina.
This land has been in our family since 1796. Family history says that two brothers from Berk county, Pennsylvania came down here; liked what they saw and decided to stay.
Where once grew tobacco, are now fields of grain and seasonal fruits/vegetables. Dad started blueberries back in the 80's and blackberries were put in about five years later. But no one, at that time, cared much for blackberries. Now, they're all the rage.
January is when my brother works on the equipment. In February, I'll start seeds in the High Tunnel. My sister and her family help out where/when needed.
February gives me more than enough time for the two to three months that it'll take for the plants to be ready to set out. I prefer to grow our own transplants - not just to save money, but also to grow them organically.
As did my father and his father before him, I save seeds - it's the heirlooms that I store away. Once, years ago, Dad started a small garden at the end of an old field, mostly tomatoes. Around August (that year) some volunteers came up. Dad hadn't seen these kind of plants since he was a kid: Ground Cherries. There's no telling how long the seeds had been there. We'd had the field in wheat and orchardgrass for years. We saved the seeds and later planted some closer to home.
When I was but a wee lad, [i remember] finding mason jars full of bean seeds, tucked away in the wall of an old tobacco barn. These days our seeds are kept in the freezer; they keep viable for years.
.As this is a working farm and our home - [for insurance reasons & now covid-19 ] we don't accept visitors to our property without an appointment.
