Good-bye front yard of green - Hello to more flowers, herbs, produce and art!

I tell you I love a plush beautiful green grassy yard...the next thing I'll tell you that my green grass is now under two feet of wood chips. We don't ... yet ... have our 50 acre farm and need more growing space. Although there are wood chips where my grass was, everyday I am planting pots so soon there will be beautiful pots and ground planted herbs, tomato plants, succulents, a lot of flowers for cut flower vases, special occasions, etc., trellises for various climbing squashes, beans, etc. The sky with vertical gardens ... and my front yard... will be utilized to the fullest to grow.

I'll post photographs soon. It'll be enjoyable to see how we utilize this area from green to brown to flowers, herbs, produce and art.

We'll soon sell our excess plants of tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, flowers and herbs so stay tuned and if you want me to send you a list personally, just send me an email and I'll add you to the list.
Again, we thank you so much for supporting us as we endeavor to provide your family with a wide variety of fresh organic produce.

It's strawberry season so we are enjoying making low sugar strawberry preserves. This year will also offer canned beans, tomatoes, pickles, etc. It'll be an exciting year of more culinary surprises.

https://squareup.com/store/littleedenheirloomfarm is an online store I'm creating that will list various things we have to offer that you can purchase and we'll add it to your weekly bag or you can pick it up at our Farm Stand/Farmers' Market days. You can currently purchase breads, preserves, honey, special requests, extra produce, etc., but I thought this would be a great place to visually see things with the prices, etc., for budgeting with an easy way to pay.

Thank you!

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

Happy Goats = Goat Milk = Cheese = Happy Customers!

While living in Georgia I had a lot of rescued goats, a lot were so weak, in poor health, they would hand them over the fence to me so they wouldn't get stomped in the back pens at the local animal auction where I lived in Macon County. With a number of folks asking if we sell goat milk, cheese, etc., it won't be long and we'll have goats again.

I came across this on Facebook and couldn't resist sharing.... If you would like to help us by sponsoring our mission, please go to https://www.gofundme.com/HomelesstoFarmer.  Thanks!

Go Green in 2016 Gathering is Tonight

Go Green in 2016 is tonight from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. We've been asked to be a vendor at this first-time event and we're super excited! We'll have our homemade breads, organic certified natural eggs, preserves, Shiitake mushrooms, and a wide array of produce to offer so be sure to stop by and say HI!

The address is 2819 Mahan Dr. Suite 102, Tallahassee. We're also planting plants of flowers, herbs, peppers and tomatoes in pots to either bring tonight and/or tomorrow (or next week if we don't have time) at the Lake Ella Market.

Thanks so much, we'll see you there!


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

Gearing up for Spring!

Hi!

February is upon us and we're gearing up for spring!  We're getting ready for a wonderful spring of more cool weather crops of brassicas (broccoli, cauliflower, etc.) along with tomatoes, eggplant, and peppers. 

It's that time of year to cut limbs/trees for our Shiitake mushroom.  The more water oak logs we have the more Shiitakes we can grow and put in our Farm Share bags.  In saying this if you have or know of anyone that has oak trees and wouldn't mind us having one or more, depending on the size of the limbs we need, please let us know.  All in all, this 2016 year is going to be a year that we'll ask for help...which is a wonderful thing.  Soon we'll have enough money, we pray, to rent a tractor to move chips we've had decomposing over the last months and we'll reach out for help with the spreading and moving of them for walkways, plant bedding, etc.  We'll also need help with harvesting, planting, etc., a few hours each week.  We're not sure right now if we can pay or only offer an exchange for teaching/sharing.  Let us know if you know of anyone that may want to get their hands dirty.  :) 


Thanks so much for supporting our Little Eden and our Mission.

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

Human Waste, Chemical Sludge - Toxic Fertilizers

We may not live in Canada...which is, by the way...just up the road...in the same North America we live in....but....it may surprise you what we do in our own country.....

say you get spring fever and want a garden or to plant organically in a pot and you go and buy organic soil and/or organic fertilizer. Take a moment and look at the ingredients:

mil organite - processed human waste - contains all listed in photo below.

night soil - human waste - contains all listed in photo below.

worm castings - one of the best fertilizers - processed through the _ _ _ _ waste processing plant. - processed human waste contains all listed in photo below.

Just because it says "Organic" doesn't mean we need to stop reading....

Photograph courtesy of https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=566734736815826&set=o.86648011851&type=3&pnref=story 

 Let's get back to Toxin-Free Agriculture! Say NO to Biosolids!! For more see - www.sludgefacts.org and www.biosolidsbc.com

 

Off to a Good Start

365 blank pages before this book is complete....now there's only 364.

May it be memorable...in a good way.

May I take time to do more things fun. I want a boat to spend time running the local rivers and streams with camera in hand. I want to hike more of the woods to see, to explore.

I want to go to a couple real good rodeos.

I need to be more patient, kind and understanding.

I need to be more like Christ.

I need to stop living in the past ... less holding onto the should haves and could haves and learn to live in the now and think on the good things to come.

I must create more spare time.  I love to paint, sculpt, draw, sew, etc., and want to work less and dabble more.    I sell my dabbles upon completion (countrysquirrelsrus.etsy.com) but I  need to learn that it's OK to dabble for my own enjoyment for my own interior / garden designs.

Yesterday was a good day.  Ron wanted to take the day off and read and asked me what I was going to do.... I said I said I was going to work.  Well, we did a bit of both I reckon.

We now have a much needed new tire on the truck.  We had been blessed with the tire holding up for longer than a year... completely separated around close to the rim.  We put a lot of weight on my sweet little Ranger every week as we load for the farmers' markets, the Lord has certainly protected us.  Money is always tight but we had to get 'er done.

While waiting for the tire installation, we poked around at the jackets....we really needed a warm jacket for each of us.  We found us both one on sale....I'm cold natured but I'm staying warm now!

On our way home we picked up some nice pallets to make more critter night pens and some framing that makes really awesome trellises for beans, tomatoes, etc.

Oh, I found a large stuffed candy cane dog toy on sale....yeah, it's a fan favorite to two of our dogs...one of them just hogs it for herself though.  I made a video, posting it on YouTube and shared it below in a following post. 

Ron asked what I wanted for dinner....doodoo stew was my response.  The second time he asked a ding came on my phone at the same time....recipes...The first one on that email was a recipe for corn chowder with potatoes and carrots.   It is very very good.

While Ron made dinner I went out and between me, two dogs and a turkey I planted about a hundred elephant garlic.  Pink Pickle (one of our turkeys) got himself all tangled up in the string I used to mark the border around the herb garden...He had to lay down with his feet out behind him so I could detangle the crazy bird.

Life is off to a good start here at happy acres, home of wayward cats, goofy dogs, pink pickles, and, of course, organic Heirloom gardens.

2016 New Year's Candy Cane = One Happy Puppy!

Our wish for each is within this silly video featuring one of our rescued dogs.

2016 New Year's Candy Cane = One Happy Puppy!

It's going to be an awesome year folks.

"Today begins the first page of a blank 365 page book", let's make it a great one!

Happy 2016 from your friends at Little Eden Heirloom Farm.

Ron and Annette Layton

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