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Regenerative Private Farm, Organically Grown
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08/25/2026

Francolin Farm Minute 25 August 2026 This morning was a blessing. Beauty emitting all around us. Although we dream of cool nights and crisp Autumn days, once winter is in full force I imagine we will be wishing for warmer days.

Farmers and ranchers are a tough, steadfast bunch. We also crave the perfect weather scenarios despite the lack of evidence of their existence. This summer especially has been a challenge to just about every farm we know. The heat, humidity and rain has worn out so many herein TN. And we needn’t look further than across the pond to our friends in Europe and the real drought they are suffering through. Feels like an eternity since we were there visiting in May, and crazier still, that’s the last time they received any real rain.

I’m convinced the 100 year averages are simply an average of 100 entirely different years. No one year looks remotely like any other. And yet, we plow, till, rake, sow, plant, cultivate, graze, raise, and harvest. We work. We are mere stewards of what has been given to us. We don’t control the gift. We control the effort.

Despite our desperate dependability on the fickleness of weather (modified and otherwise), we can most certainly depend on the faithfulness of God. Let’s stand in solidarity with one another as we pray for good weather and relief for ours farms, our neighbors farms, and for those friends who farm throughout the world. The rest of the world depends on it.

Zechariah 10:1 Isaiah 30:23 Deuteronomy 11:14

08/02/2026

Maypop/Passionflower has now become one of our favorite native Tennessee wildflowers. The plant is sometimes called Maypop because its fruit pops open when ripe, and it is also commonly known as Passionflower due to its association with the Christian symbolism of the crucifixion, as interpreted by early missionaries. Additionally, it is the Tennessee state wildflower, highlighting its significance in the region.

Alien-like in appearance and incredibly important to our pollinators, this unassuming fruit grows to be about the size of a chicken egg with a tough green exterior. The juicy seeds inside the fruit are similar to pomegranate arils.

“Passionflowers are big purple bullseyes for the fuzzy, popcorn-sized pollinators who pose no threat to people. They wriggle and revel among the silky filaments, sometimes three abreast on one bloom. And when those kaleidoscopic petals begin to close (a passionflower lasts just one day in full glory), the blossom becomes a cozy canopy bed for slumbering bees. To watch the sun wake up a passionflower is to see an ecosystem set abuzz.“
Elizabeth Westby Florio Garden & Gun

07/31/2026

Francolin Farm Minute 31 July 2026 with July coming to a close it’s as if nature took a deep sigh of relief this morning. The temperature on the pastures this morning was a cool 62° - surely a tease as Summer is most definitely not over, but any brief taste of our Autumn to come is a welcome blessing.

We are convinced that, although Tennessee obviously has 100 year averages for temperature, rain, and overall weather, every individual year is entirely different from every other year. This year by the end of April, we were in a serious drought. Normally our wettest season, this Spring saw us at least 10-15 inches below normal. Then in comes June and July, normally drier months, (especially the last few years where we were in drought conditions) and we were preparing for a very dry and hot overall year. But, the heavens opened and those two months brought with it so much consistent rain that we are back to normal rainfalls. Over 10 inches just in July!

So, we’ve given up predicting, and now just analyzing and giving thanks. Most notably, due in large part also to amazing pasture management by our Farm Manager, Simeon, our pastures are bursting with life and diversity. Sharing this video with you to enjoy and show the beautiful results of prayer, hard work and planning for what we have been graciously called to steward. God bless each of you and may God bless Francolin Farm.

07/25/2026

A weekend mediation on the farm: Thoreau traces how shelter evolved from something a person could build in a day into the mortgaged house that takes a working lifetime to pay off. The axe was meant to build the cabin; now the cabin — and the debt, the furniture, the upkeep — dictates what you do with your years.

Same for the farm that owns the farmer. There is something biblical in this warning. Something worth considering well.

To be clear, Thoreau wasn’t making an argument against tools, or for that matter technology. This quote is about a threshold: past a certain complexity, a tool stops being something you use occasionally and becomes something requiring continuous feeding — maintenance, payments, attention.

Anything we acquire should require consideration of what it will ask of us in return.

It as a question of ordering — who or what occupies the Master’s seat?

07/24/2026

WANTED: Experienced garden assistant for the busy harvest season at our farm in Leipers Fork, TN (now through as late as mid-November).

To be clear this would be a paid position, not volunteer, ideally 20-30 hours a week to assist our Head Grower with the management of the gardens: harvesting, stewarding the aesthetics (read: weeding and pruning). Experience with professionally managing an organic or regenerative garden is preferred.

If qualified and interested, please DM.

07/11/2026

TN Summer Feels.
Hot. Tired. Emotional eating. This ram of ours perfectly sums up the Tennessee summer days. We won’t ever give up, but we might not get up. At least right away.

07/04/2026

Happy Independence Day!

An intent of this “day off” was to be both a day of celebration AND reflection. We’re called to evaluate how well our nation is doing compared to the founder’s original intentions.

John Quincy Adams on July 4, 1837 gave a speech in a small town in Newburyport, Massachusets at their celebration saying:

“…the purpose for which you are here assembled. It is to enjoy the bounties of heaven for the past, and to prepare for the duties of the future. It is to review the principles proclaimed by the founders of your empire; to examine what has been their operation upon your own destinies, and upon the history of mankind; to scrutinize with an observing eye, and a cool, deliberate judgment, your condition at this day; to compare it with that of your fathers on the day which you propose to commemorate, and to discern what portion fo their principles has been retained inviolate, what portion of them has been weakened, impaired, or abandoned; and what portion of them it is your first of duties to retain, to preserve, to redeem, to transmit to your offspring, to be cherished, maintained, and transmitted to their posterity of unnumbered ages to come.”

Today, read the Declaration of Independence out loud with friends and family and have conversations around these four key points and consider how our nation is doing:

1. Recognition that our natural rights (among the many are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness) are God-given, not government-given.
2. We oversee our government (and its ongoing existence) to ensure it protects those rights.
3. Governments only derive power from the consent of you and me.
4. People may alter or abolish governments that violate those purposes.

Ask each other a few questions:
1. “How is America doing in 2026?”
2. “How has our government protected your rights to experiencing human flourishing as God intended?”
3. “As part of our responsibility and authority, are there certain lines that the government has crossed that needs addressing?”

USA is a unique and beautiful experiment that we benefit from greatly. We have responsibility to steward this country for generations to come.

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