Farm Happenings

Sprinklers are back to work again full-time in the mushroom shade house, ready for hopefully another wonderful Shiitake harvest season.  Organic fodder is growing as always for the chickens, baby ducks are running around like little rotten two-year olds chasing bugs and getting into trouble.  Recently the guineas even thought it would be fun to leave the gardens and take off in the woods and roadside ditches all day long.  Reckon they just wanted to see how life is like on the run.  They did, however, neglect to pack water so they came back home just before dark - thirsty.

Changes are coming as this area of the south will experience a yearly "second spring".  A time when it cools down from the summer heat a bit.  We are planting more varieties for late summer/fall/winter harvests that I'm sure you will enjoy. I'll label them so you can become familiar and add a recipe or two for your creating pleasure.  A quote I recently read states "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower".  This even holds true in this area, the colors of the leaves may not be as dramatic as those north of us but each has beauty.  This reminds me that I want to make cement bird baths, bird feeders and hypertufa planters using leaves of our elephant ears, mulberry and other local large and/or interesting shaped leaves.  Hmmmm.  Must put plans in motion before the leaves are marred or gone. 

Happy almost fall, thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to do what we love.

Ron and Annette Layton
Little Eden Heirloom Farm
Crawfordville, Florida
850/274-7690

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Fresh Harvested Shiitake Mushrooms Available

We harvested Shiitake mushrooms this morning and have some to share.

$7 bowl (avg. half pound). Shiitake mushrooms freeze, dry and can well. Dehydrated Shiitakes are also available at $7 bag.

Call/text or email to order.
Telephone/Text: 850/274-7690
Email: littleedenheirloomfarm@zoho.com

Crawfordville Farm pick-up is available.
Crawfordville delivery is available with minimum orders of $20.

We'll harvest each day this week so you can also pick up your order in Tallahassee tomorrow (Monday), we can meet somewhere southeast Capital Circle or Wednesday also in Tallahassee at Lake Ella on the northwest side of the lake under the oak trees at Black Dog Cafe. (Address: 229 Lake Ella Drive, Tallahassee, FL).

Debit and credit cards accepted. Online store purchases can be made at https://squareup.com/store/littleedenheirloomfarm. For online purchases, please bring a copy of your receipt for proof of payment when picking up your order.

You can also pay upon arrival or I can send you an invoice for online payment. PayPal payments accepted using the option to send money to friends and family, our PayPal email address is littleedenheirloomfarm@zoho.com

Thank you for supporting our Farm and our Mission!

Ron and Annette Layton
Little Eden Heirloom Farm
1067 Lower Bridge Road (aka MLK)
Crawfordville, Florida
telephone/text: 850/274-7690
email: littleedenheirloomfarm@zoho.com
online store: https://squareup.com/store/littleedenheirloomfarm
blog: http://littleedenheirloomfarm.blogspot.com/
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Fresh Harvested Shiitake Mushrooms September 17, 2017

Shiitake Bowl - $7

Shiitake Mushroom Flush - September 17, 2017

Shiitake Mushroom Flush - September 17, 2017

 

Shiitake Mushroom Flush - September 17, 2017

Farm Happenings

Although I've been using this greenhouse all summer for succulents, herbs and other plants that are not fond of so much rain, Ron helped me out by putting the final staple into the last piece of hardware cloth side recently....yay! It's such a relief to know that I don't have to worry about one of our fur lizards (aka cats) going in there and using a seedling tray as a nice cozy bed...or eating all the cat nip .... 

We have taken delivery of some old boats we'll turn into goldfish and koi ponds.  This will be a win win as we get established as fish breeders for those that have aquariums and ponds themselves but also for our gardens.  Each pond cleaning will help hydrate the compost bins and will go into our red wiggler beds as they work decomposing adding vital nutrients to our home-made organic garden fertilizers to enrich our soils. 

Fall is coming....With the end of September coming up in a "New York Minute", it'll be fall before we know it.  Hope you have enjoyed this summer, oh how time flies.  We pray for a long beautiful fall.  

Thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to do what we love.

Ron and Annette Layton
Little Eden Heirloom Farm
Crawfordville, Florida
850/274-7690

Some of our cute Sultan chicks for today's "Show and Tell".  Sultan Chickens are a rare breed of poultry, listed as critical by the Livestock Conservancy. See https://livestockconservancy.org/index.php/heritage/internal/sultan.   We'll write a post soon on this breed and plan to offer chicks for sell in 2018. If interested in helping save this rare breed, please email us at littleedenheirloomfarm@zoho.com and ask to be placed on our "Chick List".

Mrs. Senorita Guajolote (she's a Black Spanish turkey) always stops in front of us so we can pet her cute bald head.