Male Guineas for Sale!

Male Guineas For Sale
Age: Around 5 months to 1 year old
Price each: $15
Pick up in Crawfordville or prepaid purchases (secured payment through Square, the company that handles our credit card transactions) can be picked up in Tallahassee on either Monday afternoons southeast side or Wednesday afternoons at Lake Ella.
Must bring own cage or box(es).

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

January's Newsletter - Ducks, Goats and Tinctures

Happy New Year! Well, we made it officially into another year.  We thank you so much for your support of our Farm and our Mission. 2017 is off to a great start as it is currently raining which is a good thing when you've planted thousands of seeds yesterday along with fingerling potatoes. The snow pea vines were wrapped and tied ... after dark but I got 'er done so to protect their fragile stems from this rain.Everyday we chase baby ducks a million times from the gardens so Ron is working on the fences where these "innocent" babies are getting through. Yesterday was a busy day as always but I managed to squeeze in a few videos to share and linked them below.

Below is our most recent Newsletter: 

Snippets, Snapshots and Barnyard Politics from our north Florida farm.

Throughout each year we get many questions asked, one is if we offer goat milk, goat cheeses, etc. I love goats and had a large herd while living in Georgia and also grew up around them, milking each day was one of my chores. Ron and I have tossed around the idea and made plans for pen locations, etc., so we can purchase goats and offer this to our Farm Family members. With skin sensitivities and fragile hair I have always wanted to make healthy personal care products as well and goat milk has a lot of health benefits not to mention the chemicals that are in everything in today's store products. Contact for fresh organic goat milk information, $4 quart, please return jars when finished - labeled as pet food grade only. 

Tinctures, Salves, Herb Oils, etc.: Chickweed is our starting point in our new line of tinctures, salves, herb oils, etc. With all the health benefits it has to offer, we can't resist creating these products. Here's just one of many websites that offer a wealth of knowledge about this plant: http://www.nutrition-info.com/herbs/herbs-chickweed.php. We'll let you know when our products are available and we certainly won't stop with just chickweed!

Another episode of Little Eden's Barnyard Politics:

We have 16 new babies!! Tuesday, December 13, 2016 Olive, one of our beautiful Muscovy ducks, after nearly 30 days if sitting, hatched her babies. That's 16 more mouths that will shovel through chips and plants to eat the bugs that harm our crops. Congratulations to Olive!

With frost cloth we have been able to keep some of our warm weather crops still producing which is a blessing. This week more cool weather crops are being planted and transplanted on our weekly succession planting schedule along with squashes, potatoes, tomatoes and peppers in preparation for spring harvests.

Thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to do what we love. May you have a blessed and a most wonderful start to this new year ahead.

Ron and Annette Layton

Little Eden Heirloom Farm

1067 Lower Bridge Road (now Dr. MLK Jr. Memorial Rd)

Crawfordville, Florida

850/274-7690

Question of the Day - Start of American Supermarkets

 

I recently asked someone in the agriculture field why they thought people would rather go the grocery store (aka supermarket) rather than purchase from a local farmers' market, farm, grow their own, etc. The answer I received was one I hadn't thought of:  It began as a matter of status after the depression, you were a better person if you were seen in a grocery store rather than in a field, a farm or someone's garden.  After the depression folks somehow through television, radio, magazines, thought it to be more "in style", almost like it bettered themselves if they were to go and shop rather than grow, sew, bake, build.  The trouble with that is most of us would not know how to survive if we had a depression today.  How many local farms, farmers' markets, do you know of should this happen today?  Who of us can sew our own clothes, bake or cook our own foods? Grow our own food?  How about make our own medicine?  Things to think about.  If/when that happened now, who would be an overnight master of these things?  

Anole Lizard Shedding

Our little Garden Helper. His name is George and all his coworkers are also named George. Him's cute!

Little Eden's Farm Stand Re-Opens - Cooler weather!

Our Little Eden Farm Stand reopens!!

Nearly every time we go to Crawfordville someone asks if we are going to open up our Farm Stand again. Thank you for asking!  It's cooling down so we are reopening our Farm Stand every day from daylight to dark Sunday - Friday, closed Friday evenings and all day Saturdays. It's self service, prices are on the containers, baskets, coolers, etc., place payment in the metal mail box by the gate. Grab a bag, fill it up with delicious fresh produce-your neighborhood almost drive-thru produce stand, organic farm with critters that provide a lot of mostly laughter with their Barnyard Politics. Our Farm Stand offerings vary from day to day depending on what we are harvesting, baking, networking with neighbors that love to grow but just have more than they need, and other produce you have asked for. 

Location: Balloons are blowing in the breeze at the mailbox! We are located three miles east of the Wakulla County Court House at 1067 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Memorial Road (Lower Bridge Road), Crawfordville, Florida

Thank you so much for supporting our Farm and our Mission.

At the Farm Stand: 


Acorn squash - $3 each
Farm fresh organic free range eggs - $5 dozen
Onions - $1 each
Oranges - .75 each
Purple Molokai sweet potatoes (completely purple, highest in antioxidants - $1 each
Sweet potatoes, Orange 4 for $3
Tangerines - .50 each or 3 for $1
Vine ripened tomatoes - $1 each or 4 for $3

Pre-Order: Call or text us at 850/274-7690 or send us an email at littleedenheirloomfarm@zoho.com and we'll have your order packed and ready for pickup

Available but not at the Farm Stand: 
Chickweed - $3 bag - great fresh, salads, stir-fry, steamed, stews, etc.,
Romaine lettuce - $3 - $4 head
Shiitake mushrooms - $7 bowl (avg. 1/2 lb)
Turnip greens (no roots) - $3 bunch

Please call, text or email with any questions, thank you so much!

Ron and Annette Layton
Little Eden Heirloom Farm
850/274-7690
Email: littleedenheirloomfarm@zoho.com

Barnyard Politics - Snakes

Our FIRST Little Eden's Barnyard Politics episode:

This was part of the welcome party that greeted us last night after dark. As I drove through the gate and about 20 feet from the front door I saw our cats in a half circle. A 2 foot 6 inch cottonmouth water moccasin. A beautiful but very deadly snake. We also found an oak snake in the aviary. Many more Barnyard Politics episodes to come hopefully on a much lighter note. With our menagerie, there's never a dull moment!

Happy Thanksgiving to You!

Snippets, snapshots and tales from our north Florida farm.

Well hopefully the first bit of fall stopped our new crop of aphids, army worms and other caterpillars, leaf footed bugs, and various sizes of grasshoppers.  With frost cloth, landscape fabric, blankets, sheets and a shirt and skirt or two, we saved most of all the summer crops still producing.   Every year I plan to build a hoop greenhouse to grow warm season crops in winter and cooler weather crops in summer....one of these years it WILL happen, I just know it!  Until then, yep, it will stay on my Wish List.

We also have a Sultan chicken just hatched this week 7 babies, a duck sitting on eggs with pet ratties almost 4 weeks old, ducklings 3 weeks old, zebra finches just hatched so yeah, it must be spring, right?
 
If you would like to learn how to garden in this north Florida area, and would like to volunteer, please contact.  We could always use extra hands planting, weeding, building, clearing, harvesting, etc.  Some volunteers work an hour, some more, some less!  This week a volunteer cleared a garden patch for more lettuces, kales, swiss chard, beets, etc.  I always tell her she's such a hard worker and that she is.  A big Thank You to Leslie!

This week more garlic, onions, greens, cabbages, kales, radishes, Brussels sprouts, carrots and more were planted on our weekly succession planting schedule.

Everyone should learn how to grow and this area isn't the easiest.  You may be amazed at how much one can grow in a 5' x 5' area or you may want to create an outdoor room or two to beautify your world.  Soon we'll send out a notice to sign up for Little Eden's Gardening How-tos so stay tuned!

Happy Thanksgiving folks, be Thankful for everything, taking nothing for granted as it could be taken away from us in a moment!

In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 1 Thessalonians 5:18 (KJV)

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