A place to sit and rest.  To visit.  This plantation teak bench should last for 50 years or more.  How to care for Teak?  Leave it alone.  Do not paint it, stain it, seal it.  Do not, do not pressure wash it.  Permission granted to age silvery grey.  A generous young fig tree to provide […]

Daffodil calendar begins in March when Brent and Beckys Bulbs publish their spring/fall catalog.  Order before July 1 and receive a discount. Living in  Plant Hardiness Zone 8, we receive bulbs  in late November.  Plant them in December.   Division 2 Daffodils do well in the South.  Division 7 are Jonquils.  Narcissus are simply great bulbs […]

Monday on the farm.  Cold, windy, and we have a dental appointment scheduled at the pole barn.  Dr. Diane Febles of Georgia Equine Dentistry sees our Tennessee Walker, Buck, once every 8 months.  Today she is floating or filing his teeth. Why would a horse need a dentist?  oh, so many reasons. A horse is […]

Clyde napping in the kitchen.  Our bottle fed lamb.  The decision to take a lamb from his mother must not be entered into lightly.  Like marriage, it is a commitment beyond the “fun and exciting stage”.  The first 3 bottles are fun.  But there are at least 120 bottles in this commitment.  4 per day […]

A domesticated Narrangansett turkey hen nesting in the irises, daffodils, and vinca along our driveway.  Spring is the season for both wild and farm turkeys to nest.  Newly hatched turkeys known as poults.  In  Georgia, spring also means turkey hunting season:  March 24 through May 15th with a limit of three gobblers. The restoration of […]

Jefferson showed up on the farm one spring day and applied for position of farm cat.  We were not taking applications.  He stayed anyway and made himself useful as a mouser and friend to our aging labrador.  “He looks great reclining on the porch furniture” observed our artist friend C.   He is sweet and […]

These wagon wheels were found a few years ago when the farmhouse was being restored.  Hidden within the concrete of the front porch.  They had been used along with plow points to strengthen the concrete.  Nothing wasted.  Reuse and Recycle before slogans were created.  We removed the concrete porch and rebuilt the porch floor as […]

This is Tatsoi, a green from the mustard family.  Grown from non patented, untreated, open pollinated seed, it has the opportunity to reseed itself generation after generation.  Adapting over time to the conditions at Hedgerow Farm.  This concept is referred to as dynamic farming.  We can also save the seed and replant where we want.  […]

Last summer,  a serpent appeared on the farm.  A timber rattlesnake discovered by Jefferson the cat.   Keeping vigil, courageous cat held snake in strike pose for long minutes while the patriarch of HF retrieved the necessary means to end its sojourn around the chicken coop.  Reasoning With and Relocation were not viable options.   […]

When the lambs are born, the ewes do the important work in cleaning and drying the newborn.  Then the lamb begins its own work of looking for nourishment.  Most of the time, nature does very well taking care of itself in lambing as in other ventures.  Since these are domesticated animals, there is an implied […]