by Rick Minter | Postcards From The Po' Farm
When Joanne and I were farming full-time way back when, winters were a financial challenge. A hard frost meant the end of our yearly income from produce sales, and we had to do whatever we could to pay our bills. (The rest of the year could be a challenge...
by Rick Minter | Postcards From The Po' Farm
Our coldest Christmas ever, according to AI, occurred in 1983, when the official high temperature was 17 and the low zero. The cold weather slipped up on us. We had been lucky on the weather through November and December and were still cutting collards as...
by Rick Minter | Postcards From The Po' Farm
In recent weeks, we’ve made numerous trips to the Forest Park facility formerly known as the Atlanta State Farmers Market to pick up loads of Fraser Fir Christmas trees. Now place is called the Atlanta/Clayton County Produce Terminal, which more accurately...
by Rick Minter | Postcards From The Po' Farm
Stephanie, Joanne and I, like other Christmas tree farmers, tend to focus on the imperfections of the trees we grow, but the truth is the quality of real Christmas trees used today is much improved. There was a time when families around here would go out...
by Rick Minter | Postcards From The Po' Farm
On Thursday, in spite of an unfavorable forecast for the weekend, we decided to take a gamble on the weather and restock our Fraser Fir display with a fresh load from the mountains of North Carolina. Unlike back in the day when we drove up to the mountains...
by Rick Minter | Postcards From The Po' Farm
The mornings during Thanksgiving weekend saw some sub-freezing temperatures which made starting our hayride tractors a little harder. (Pictured: Daniel Perkins (left) and Josh Choitz (right) seated in one of the three wagons making rounds at the tree farm) Daniel...
