Bucklebury Farm – Our first week
Well, we’ve made it through our first week here at Bucklebury Farm. That’s right! We picked a name. We waited to see the votes come in (on Facebook too) – thanks to everyone who weighed in! I was...
View ArticleHow to make a compost pile
Here on Bucklebury Farm, we are getting the garden beds prepped and ready for planting. Part of every successful garden is compost. We spent a little time establishing our compost pile – this will be...
View ArticleAfter the rain
The weather out here sure is fickle. For the first week we were here, it was all bright blue skies and puffy little clouds. The weather was very spring-like: cool in the morning, hot after the sun got...
View ArticleRaising baby chicks – the first 10 days
When I was about five years old, we lived in south Georgia and kept a small flock of backyard chickens. We weren’t in a rural area or anything, a lot of people in our Lake Park, Georgia, neighborhood...
View ArticleWe’re leaving the farm.
I have some sad news, friends. On August 4, we will be leaving the farm and moving to the Charlottesville area. We are so disappointed that things didn’t work out here. The main reason we are leaving...
View ArticleWe moved.
The last couple weeks at the farm, the garden started producing like crazy. I was so bummed to basically abandon it, especially after all the work we did, but it had to be done. We got a lot of great...
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