2022 – A Homestead of Flowing Milk & Honey!

Our homestead adventures in Central, Vriginia

Ending 2022! Some onion plantings…

Well, 2022 was a bit of a roller coaster, but it ended really well and the farm is truly set to spring forward in 2023! There were lots of adventures (and misadventures), but the farm animals are squared away for the important stuff and the plantings seem to be getting more and more fine tuned! […]

By Jones Tyler

December 31, 2022December 31, 2022

Gardening

Garlic, Shallots, Onions and Tomato Lessons Learned

The garlic and shallots are in the ground (about 2 weeks late, but that doesn’t seem to impact them) and I really only have the onions left. I tried the Egyptian Walking Onions last Fall – the goal being to get a set of perennial onions that we could eat on at most any time. […]

By Jones Tyler

November 13, 2022November 13, 2022

fall kale 2022 — Kale is a great Fall crop

Gardening

Fall Garden Observations

Still trying to get some order to this thing, but wanted to drop an entry about the Fall garden and some of the experiments. Kale – this has been a big success. Started seeds inside in late July/early August. In 2021, I mistakenly moved them outside after a couple of weeks and the tiny seedlings […]

By Jones Tyler

October 21, 2022November 5, 2022

First fowl on the Flowing Milk & Honey Farm! — Meal time!

Bloviating

Pasture Management, Worming Chickens! (we’re back!)

It’s a long boring story, but the “internet” we thought we would have at the start of the farm just kept getting delayed. Our speeds were too slow to manage this site (without a lot of frustration!) But, all of that has finally changed over the last two weeks and now the farm actually has […]

By Jones Tyler

October 10, 2022October 21, 2022