September 27, 2026 Fresh Crisp of Autumn Today was a day I love! (Written Sept 26, 2026) We woke up cold. (Okay,I woke up cold. Yyes, I’m a import to Florida, but anything with less than a “7” as the first digit is undershirt & long sleeves for me.) It [...]
September 12, 2026 Okra Forest in a Box We have a unique planting issue on our little farm. It floods. Flash floods with torrential rains that wash everything away and take hours and sometimes days to soak back down into the ground. How have we had so many successful harvests [...]
April 20, 2026 Mama Hen We eneded up with a broody bantam hen. I was not really sure about broodies. I’ve been raising chickens since I bought my first 60 from McMurray hatchery at 14 years old for a “homeschool project” that taught me I loved raising animals. Every book [...]
And the parakeets cheer! The trio of 6-week-old chicks move out to the big flock #FreedomFromIntruders #WhenTheChickenGetsOnTheUpperLevel #TheParakeetsHaveHadEnough [...]
Welcome to the world, pioneer chickens, as you begin the Tart Family Farm’s flock! You come joining Prim, Ace, and the parakeets in our menagerie & bringing hope of the future sparks in our hearts! #ThankfulForChickens #HatchingHope #ReStartOfTheFarm #TartFamilyFarm #TheRealFlorida #NancyTartAuthor #2025 [...]
My little garden is growing! #2024 #Family #Gardening #ToddlerStage #Excited #Excitement #NancyTartAuthor #ANewAdventure #LittleGardenGrowing #LittleStartToBigThings #SweetPotato #ConfederateRose #Hibiscus #Pineapple #ILoveGardening #NaturalLife #WildFlorida [...]
May 28, 2020 Okra & “Fire Lilies” Today we planted okra. Three long rows of okra plants just far enough apart to walk through the rows with the mower for easy weeding, pruning, and harvesting. Yesterday and Tuesday were the 6 by 4 corn patch. The 5 by 4 corn [...]
May 20, 2020 Peppers Have you ever seen a pepper seed? If you’ve had crushed red peppers shaken on your Italian food, you’ve seen the small whitish yellow seeds; the crunchy non-red parts of the seasoning. They are very small – not carrot seed small, but almost four times smaller [...]
May 18, 2020 Watermelons In our garden there are these long snaky vines that we keep training to stay out of the peppers, stop invading the carrot patches, and keep your green tendrils off of the zucchini! They start as wavy delicate yet determined sprouts. Nothing, not even the largest [...]
May 12, 2020 Blighted Tomatoes Today Louis, Thea, and I spent hours clearing the blight from our tomato bushes in the faint hope that we can eradicate the fungus or at least keep it away from the healthy tomatoes until they are harvested. Blight starts harmlessly enough – it looks [...]