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  • Choosing a Survival Seed Bank

    Ashley Adamant at Practical Self Reliance has written a great article about Seed Vaults.  At least I think it is great, because she makes so many p...
  • South Central Texas Garlic & Mistakes

    In December of 2017, we planted garlic to harvest for the farmers market.  Since we are located in the Upper Gulf Coast of Texas (really at the int...
  • Reid's Yellow Dent Corn

    We chose this corn variety because it is a solid performer that has been around since 1847.  It is a non-hybrid heirloom variety, so you can save s...
  • Magic Manna Parching Corn

    Parching corn is somewhere between corn nuts and popcorn.  Native american used it for travel food since it had a good storage life and was nutriti...
  • Keeping Bees

    For years my wife has wanted to raise honey bees.  As a purely academic question, bees seemed interesting to me but getting stung didn’t seem like ...
  • Hunter Gatherer Society

    Journal of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca (1542) Translated by Fanny Bandelier: While with them it happened many times that we were three or four days ...
  • First Blackberry Harvest

    We planted Ouachita and Natchez blackberries (25 root cuttings each) from Womack Nursery in Spring 2017.   This is the first year we got a good har...
  • Surprise! Peaches

    Walking around the farm this spring, I noticed some pretty blooms.  On further inspection, it is a peach tree! Someone must have thrown out a peac...
  • First Grapefruit

    We purchased several different citrus trees from the Bluebonnet Master Gardener Fruit Tree Sale in 2017.  We ate our first Rio Red grapefruit and i...
  • Native Passion Flower

    Maypop (Passiflora incarnata) is a passion flower native to Texas and Oklahoma and the SE US.  I first saw a maypop when I was hiking with my wife ...
  • First Peach

    We harvested our first peach from our new fruit trees!  It is a Rio Grande peach.