08/29/2026
It’s been a happy August ✨
The ground is hard and dry this time of year and it seems like any rain we might get gets soaked up before it reaches the plants. It’s also the last big push of summer before fall creeps in so there are a lot of long, hot days full of harvesting, seed starting, and bed prepping.
This year we grew heirloom corn and we know it will be a yearly staple on our farm. Saving native and traditional seeds has always been a passion of ours and now we are able to live it out.. This variety is our first to harvest and it’s called Bloody Butcher Corn, mainly used for meal. It’s an Appalachian variety developed in the mid 1800s. The stalks grow to 15 feet tall and their dry and rustling leaves are music on a hot August day.
At a time with looming collapse of the industrial food system as well as ecosystems across the world, one of the most important things we can do as farmers is to preserve seed, traditions, and techniques for the next generation. We work the land to we can learn to be human, and times like these has us thinking how important that really is.
We still have loads of flowers coming in and are using our spring water all across the farm to keeps the blooms rolling! We will be fully stocked with the colors of August tomorrow at Franklin Farmers Market. Come early! 💐
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