Gift of Feral Pig
When you live on a farm, people bring you gifts. With teeth, or claws, or beaks. Alive or dead. Sometimes we must say no thank you. This feral pig appears cute, deceivingly so. We were not yet “pig...
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Ownership of the Natural World
This is Tatsoi, a green from the mustard family. Grown from non patented, untreated, open pollinated seed, it has the opportunity to reseed itself generation after generation. Adapting over time to...
View ArticleTurkey Season
A domesticated Narrangansett turkey hen nesting in the irises, daffodils, and vinca along our driveway. Spring is the season for both wild and farm turkeys to nest. Newly hatched turkeys known as...
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GFC Prescribed Fire
This week we had a controlled burn, also known as Prescribed Fire (Rx Fire,) in the pine tree stands on the farm. Conditions such as wind, humidity, and temperature assessed. If favorable, burn permit...
View ArticleBluebird Boxes
Everyone loves a comeback story and the bluebird recovery is a good one. The bluebird decline had multiple causes: habitat loss, insecticides, and non native birds competing for nesting cavities....
View ArticleCreation or Commodity
A conversation on the farm today saddened me by its careless talk in regards to the created world. It was a land-deal-forestry-only-as-a-commodity discussion. In the words of Wendell Berry a “cut and...
View ArticleChanterelles
The rare and plentiful rains of this summer are receiving mixed reviews in North Georgia. Areas with impervious surfaces, parking lots and shopping zones, are flooding nearby churches, homes, and...
View ArticleThe Genetic Commons
At Hedgerow Farm we plant heirloom, open-pollinated seeds. We buy these seeds from companies that have signed the safe seed pledge. The Texas Red Hill Okra planted this summer grew from such seed....
View ArticleA neighborly lunch
Local history was a topic at yesterday’s lunch with neighbors. An aerial view of Hedgerow Farm in the 1940’s was duly examined for buildings and barns now disappeared. A land deed from 1888 described...
View ArticleMonarchs and Milkweeds
Monarch populations dangerously close to disappearing from the earth. The winter of 2013/2014 saw their wintering grounds in Mexico shrink from a high of 30 acres covered in monarchs to approx 3...
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