Sweet BombDiggity Farms

08/14/2026

Did you know a fairy and a chicken can have a baby?

Meet the fairy egg, tiny, yolkless, and one of those rare little mysteries chickens hand you every so often. This one’s my third ever. No yolk means no spoiling, so I keep them around as sweet little reminders that magic still shows up in ordinary places, sometimes right in the nesting box.

08/11/2026

Caught this happening right along the water’s edge and had to stop and watch.

This is called puddling. Butterflies gather on damp soil or sand near water to pull minerals and salts up from the ground, nutrients they can’t get from nectar alone. The males take in these minerals and pass them to females during mating, a gift that helps the next generation survive.

It’s such a quiet little ritual. No rush, no fuss, just butterflies doing exactly what they were made to do.

That’s the thing about a flourishing life too. It’s rarely one big dramatic moment. It’s the puddling. The unglamorous, unseen work that happens right before the thing everyone actually notices.

Next time you see a cluster of butterflies along the water’s edge, you’ll know they’re not just resting. They’re building something for the ones who come after them.

08/09/2026

Applause fades fast. Honor that lasts is something else entirely.

This week’s Farm Sunday devotional looks at five simple ways to honor Jesus Christ with your everyday life, your work, your relationships, and how you carry yourself.

Read it here: https://sweetbombdiggityfarms.com/farmsunday-devotional-applause-fades/

08/08/2026

Barn stripping day. It sounds almost charming until you know what it actually means. It’s scraping. It’s shoveling. It’s eight loads of soiled bedding hauled out, one after another. It’s blowing out the whole barn, cobwebs and dust and whatever else has been living up in those rafters rent free. Then barn lime spread across the floor to freshen everything, and twenty five bags of pine shavings opened and shaken out, clean and pale and smelling like a lumber yard.

All of it against the clock, because the storm was coming.

We beat it. Barely. And then we opened the gate.

They came in as one clump. Donks and goats packed together, easing through the gate like they’d never laid eyes on the place before, sniffing at shavings they had nothing to do with. Not one word of thanks between the lot of them.

They deserve nothing less.

Now the rain is coming down, everybody’s tucked in, and we are FILTHY. Head to toe, boots to eyebrows, headed straight for the shower.

Who needs a gym membership. This is life design design with cardio built right in!

08/07/2026

Want more blooms this holiday season? It’s fertilizing time for your Thanksgiving or Christmas cactus, last call before fall rest. I’m using fish emulsion on mine, but compost tea and kelp extract work just as well, and these tricks work on most houseplants too. Comment “blooms” and I’ll send you today’s blog post with all the natural options and links

https://sweetbombdiggityfarms.com/natural-ways-to-feed-your-christmas-cactus/

08/05/2026

Deeply honored that Mark Schaefer included Sweet BombDiggity Farms in his latest piece on personal branding. If you’re in marketing and you don’t know Mark, fix that today. He’s one of the sharpest voices in our profession, a true futurist, and someone who still shows up to give his time and heart to students, including mine. I use his books in the classroom because he keeps marketing human. Grateful to call him a friend and honored to be part of his work.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/three-paths-personal-branding-content-strategy-one-truth-schaefer-s7mje?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&utm_campaign=share_via

I'm working on a very new and revised edition of my personal branding book "KNOWN" and collecting case studies. Two interviews revealed radically different perspectives on personal branding content strategy.

08/04/2026

Yanking a whole mullein plant out by the root and I’m not even mad at it.

Invasive doesn’t mean useless. This plant has real uses, but every year one mature mullein can drop over 100,000 seeds from that flowering head at the top if you let it go to seed. So the rule here is simple: use it if you want, just don’t leave it behind. Pull the whole plant, or at minimum chop the head off before it flowers. You will never run out of mullein. It does not need your help.

It’s never too late to deal with what’s already growing wild in your own yard.

Comment MULLEIN and I’ll send you more on this plant.



https://sweetbombdiggityfarms.com/magical-mullein-weed/

08/02/2026

Attract more flies 🪰with honey 🍯 than vinegar. My grandma used to say that, and she was talking about a lot more than flies.

This week’s looks at Colossians 4:6 and what it really means to be gracious in how we talk to people. Full devotional is up now.

https://sweetbombdiggityfarms.com/farmsunday-devotional-honey-not-vinegar/

07/30/2026

🔗 https://sweetbombdiggityfarms.com/the-complete-berry-guide/

Okay, so if you’ve been here for any of our berry content this season, you know we’ve gotten a lot of questions. Like, a lot. Which leaf means what, what to actually cut, what about the berries we hadn’t even talked about yet.

So this week I put it all together. Every berry we grow, or get asked about, in one guide. Planting, care, pruning, when to pick it, how to wash it. All of it.

And it’s free. Just comment BERRIES below and I’ll send it your way.

Now that’s BombDiggity.

07/28/2026

We are WAY too easy on our basil.

Once it starts flowering, that plant quits making leaves for you and starts making seeds instead. Suddenly your basil’s bitter and stunted, and you’re standing there wondering what happened.

Here’s the fix. Find those little flower stalks, follow the stem down to the next set of leaves, and pinch the top clean off. Fingers or scissors, doesn’t matter. That plant will send out two new branches right from that spot, and you’ll end up with a bushier plant and way more basil all season long.

Same goes for a lot of things we let go too long before we tend to them. A little pruning now saves you a bitter harvest later.

Go pinch your basil back. It can take it.

More on basil over on our blog — https://a.co/d/00O1IrND