by Rick Minter | Postcards From The Po' Farm
All this rain and the sandhill cranes flying north… I’m guessing this is spring. Shucks. I was looking forward to some winter weather. We constantly talk about how different things are now versus decades ago. Now, we have strawberries in March, peaches in...
by Rick Minter | Postcards From The Po' Farm
It’s a rainy Tuesday here at the farm, but we need the rain and it’s good to get it early in the week. We’re looking forward to a big weekend. We still have lots of nice trees in the field and fresh Fraser Firs in the barn. We dropped off our Trees...
by Rick Minter | Postcards From The Po' Farm
We had a good week working in the trees, working on the Christmas tree barn, planting onions and cutting turnip greens and collards. We hadn’t planned on going to the Peachtree City market on Saturday, but after .9 inches of rain on Wednesday, we’ve got a...
by Rick Minter | Postcards From The Po' Farm
Christmas tree season is off and running. We had good days Wednesday and Thanksgiving Day. We have some really nice Frasers this year, and our trees in the field look good to us too. In addition to our usual Leylands, we have some that haven’t been pruned since...
by Rick Minter | Postcards From The Po' Farm
It’s been a long time with no postcards, but we’ll do better going forward, I promise. We spent the last week doing some final pruning on the Christmas trees and sprucing up our Christmas shop. It now has a painted floor, a porch out front, new shelves and...
by Rick Minter | Postcards From The Po' Farm
We’re trying as hard as we can to get some field work done, but the rain every three days is keeping us out of the fields for the most part. We do have some turnip greens and collards coming along, and sacks of other vegetables seed on hand as soon as we can get...
