Join Us and Tour Our Farm on June 21st, Once a Year Event
Sharing the story behind an adventure is a great way to share the experience and learnings. Starting the farm has definitely been an adventure. Let us take a hour or two and talk about what we’ve learned and experienced along the way. Much of what we’ve done on the farm can be applied applied in your garden or front yard. Maybe you want to have a few fruit trees. We’ll share how to get started in a practical way.
Every year we do a farm tour day. This is a great chance to meet the farmers and see the farm. in progress. We do tours once per year.
Tickets
Tickets for tours are available at 10AM and 1:00PM. The version of the tour for people wanting to start a homestead is at 3PM.
Click Here to purchase your tickets
Farm tour includes
– detailed tour (family friendly)
– 1/2 lb of honey from our remote mountain location of Troublesome Gap, NC
What to Bring
Just bring yourself and your family and comfortable shoes. We plan to walk on grassy fields and uneven ground.
We are Dirt Farmers and Pesticide / Insecticide Free
If we grow good dirt, then plants will grow and produce abundantly. We use a minimum of organic fertlizers. We avoid the use of synthetic fertilizers. We also don’t use any pesticides or insecticides. We do use natural amendments like woodchips, hay (pesticide / herbicide free) and feather meal.
Diversity of Plants and Trees on the Farm
Let us introduce you to some of the variety of plants, bushes and trees on the farm including
Row Crops
– garlic
Fruit Bearing Trees
– mulberry
– hazel
– black walnut
– figs
– persimmon
– pawpaw
– plumcot
– plum
– apricot
– peaches
– quince
– medlar
– pomegranate
– jujube
Fruit Bearing Bushes
– blueberry
– goji berry
– elderberry
– blackberry
– beautyberry
– goumi berry
– raspberry
– chokeberry / aronia
Specialty
– native cactus (edible / nopales)
– honey bees
Medicinal
– comfrey
– witch hazel
– elderberry
Sometimes the farmer fails. I put off adding new smelly stuff stuff to the scent caps on the anti-deer fence and the deer made it into the protected area. The scent caps encourage the deer to sniff the scent cap which is energized. When they smell the cap, they get a mild shock and it scares them and keeps them away from the anti-deer fence. The deer herd is watching and when one the herd gets shocked it discourages them from trying to get in the fenced in area. Changing scents every 90 days retrains the herd. Without that retraining they lose their fear of the anti-deer fence and get inside the protected area.
The deer really liked the tender leaves on the young peach trees. Without the leaves, the trees can’t support the peaches that were growing on the trees so I removed the immature peaches and buried them in the compost pile.
Join Us and Tour the Farm on Saturday, June 21st
Every year we do a farm tour day. This is a great chance to meet the farmers and see the farm. We’ll show you our work in progress and talk about how we do regenerative farming.
Tickets
Tickets for tours are available at 10AM and 1:00PM. The version of the tour for people wanting to start a homestead is at 3PM.
Click Here to purchase your tickets
Farm tour includes
– detailed tour (family friendly)
– 1/2 lb of honey from our remote mountain location of Troublesome Gap, NC
What to Bring
Just bring yourself and your family and comfortable shoes. We plan to walk on grassy fields and uneven ground.
We are Dirt Farmers and Pesticide / Insecticide Free
If we grow good dirt, then plants will grow and produce abundantly. We use a minimum of organic fertlizers. We avoid the use of synthetic fertilizers. We also don’t use any pesticides or insecticides. We do use natural amendments like woodchips, hay (pesticide / herbicide free) and feather meal.
Diversity of Plants and Trees on the Farm
Let us introduce you to some of the variety of plants, bushes and trees on the farm including
Row Crops
– garlic
Fruit Bearing Trees
– mulberry
– hazel
– black walnut
– figs
– persimmon
– pawpaw
– plumcot
– plum
– apricot
– peaches
– quince
– medlar
– pomegranate
– jujube
Fruit Bearing Bushes
– blueberry
– goji berry
– elderberry
– blackberry
– beautyberry
– goumi berry
– raspberry
– chokeberry / aronia
Specialty
– native cactus (edible / nopales)
– honey bees
Medicinal
– comfrey
– witch hazel
– elderberry
Work on the Farm Continues
The work on the farm goes on and everything is growing quickly
I’m a mechanical engineer turned weekend farmer, so I’m just smart enough to know that there is a lot that I don’t know especially when it comes to farming, permaculture and food forests. I’ve been heavily influenced in my love of farming and permaculture by my Mom and Dad and also by people like 
Connie has her certificate in Sustainable Agriculture from CCCC. She really enjoyed the classes at the community college and learned a lot. The program was a mixture of classes and work on the school farm. What she learned has really added to our technical proficiency on the farm.