Okfuskee Farm

02/03/2025

It's the day after Bobby Tucker's birthday and I just remembered my main present for him this evening that I completely forgot to mention yesterday! We filmed footage for a grazing video last Father's Day and I finally got around to putting the clips together last week. It was scheduled to be public on his birthday, but forgot to tell him it was there. Whoops.
These videos are primarily archival material (amateur quality) for our family but hopefully may help others who might be interested in the lifestyle we lead.
https://youtu.be/uiY7It5MJEA
What didn't make the video are our two new (6 months old) Great Pyrenees livestock guardian dogs we just brought home from the mountains today. More on those pups later...

This video describes and demonstrates the process of creating paddocks using electrified high tensile perimeter fencing and geared reels of woven poly-lines....

07/21/2024

If you're like us, onions are a foundational ingredient for pretty much every meal we cook. Even though onions are relatively inexpensive to buy, and the profit margin is small for any we do sell, growing all of the onions that we need for the entire year means that we have even more meals that came entirely from the farm. That makes us happy...and that is worth a lot.

If you're interested in how we harvest, cure and store our onions, here's a short (4 min) video on just that.

In this video we offer an overview of the harvesting, processing and curing of onions. The steps are simple, some are passive (waiting), and kid-friendly. Us...

07/02/2024

https://youtu.be/h_EA8QNg5NU?si=XkX6R7Sk62q-qZ-o
This one is for all the grafting geeks out there. Bobby is one of you…
He claims that top-working trees has been his best use of time in the farm.
If you didn’t know what a graft looked like you’d be wondering who the heck left tape on trees all over the farm. He’s been busy this late spring and early summer performing tree marriages.

In this video we demonstrate the Texas Bark Inlay grafting method on a pecan tree at our home farm. This agroforestry method is proving to be one of the best...

06/21/2024

Heyo! We're working on documenting some of the cool things that we've been doing on the farm. I'm S-L-O-W-L-Y navigating the world of iMovie and youtube, but it's worth the effort to archive our life a bit more and share some of the things we've learned on the farm along the way. If you're interested in one of the many agroforestry practices we're using, check out this video, hot off the press:

In this video we demonstrate one of the agroforestry strategies we utilize on our farm---densely planting cheap pioneer species (loblolly pines in this case)...

04/20/2024

Allis Chalmers All-Crop Harvester/Combine - Working order. Near Siler City, NC. $700

11/03/2023

Debbie Roos did a great job covering the recent farm visit to our leased property where we raise our Katahdin sheep flock. Thanks NC AgVentures for the grant for livestock handling equipment that has made our process so much simpler and safer!

NC AgVentures is a NC State Extension program that provides grants to North Carolina farmers and community groups for new and innovative agricultural project ideas that will increase farm profits. The program is supported by the NC To***co Trust Fund Commission. Each year the AgVentures program sele...

03/25/2023

Check out this unique workshop we’ll be offering at our farm this May: https://sowpermaculture.org/billy-bob

11/05/2022

I love seeing how visiting friends capture the farm. Photo credit: Justin Walker. Love you guys! ☀️

10/30/2022

An autumn evening where we seem to blend in with the landscape and the pigs. Cover cropping, mulching (after wood chipping), pig trick or TREATS and pretty persimmons.

10/13/2022

Hazelnuts, a fun new tool on the farm, and chestnuts roasted and frozen for Xmas!

05/06/2022

It felt impossible to walk through making jam in 6 minutes, but no babies or background profanity made its way onto live TV, so I call it a minor win. 👩‍🌾👩‍🍳🍓
Shoutout to the Guilford College Sustainable Food Systems Program!

Bronwyn Tucker, the owner of Okfuskee Farm, shared all the tips people need to know to make triple berry jam from scratch.