Snuff Ridge Farm

S***f Ridge Farms has been busy today. We set three 🐝 swarm traps, tilled a favorite neighbors garden and double fed our sourdough starter to share with some friends tomorrow and get ready to make bread.

Anybody eating crawfish today? I want a couple of Walmart sacks of crawfish scraps for my chickens. They love a 🦞 treat!

We have a few tomatoe available for sale. Heirloom and hybrid. $2.50/pound. For reference, the large one in the middle is a pound and a half! Contact me to make arrangements for pick up.

I have a couple of birdhouse gourd plants FREE if anyone is interested.

Compost pile…done! ✅

Thankful for my never ending supply of eggs!

Happy Friday y’all!

We got our seeds organized today in these handy little photo keepers. I’ll post a link in the comments.

AND we got corn, Anasazi beans, zinnias and butterfly bush planted today.

I also checked on our 🐝 and they are doing great. The queen is still laying beautiful patterns and honey is starting to fill the super!

We’ve been busy here at S***f Ridge, tilling, hoeing and seed starting. We’ve got a few things in the ground including Creole, Homestead, and Parks Whopper 🍅 tomatoes, Pink Eye Purple Hulls, Mustard, Turnips, Henderson Limas, and Straight Neck Squash.

After the rain, we will add Anasazi beans, nasturtium, zinnias, sunflowers and more!

We have a few extra heirloom tomatoes and peppers available. PM for more info.

We are planning the garden and starting to plant tomorrow! Anybody else ready for spring!

It’s about to go down!

Who is ready for some spring gardening??? I started some heirloom seeds today and I’ll do more later. These are some of my faves and I always do them first!

Thanks Terry for the seed starting kit!

What heirlooms do you want to see in the garden?

Are you looking for any specific plant varieties for your spring garden? If so, drop it below.

I’m starting to plan for getting seeds started in the greenhouse.

My friend shared this, and I had to share. ❤️

“My dad has bees.🐝Today I went to his house and he showed me all of the honey he had gotten from the hives. He took the lid off of a 5 gallon bucket full of honey and on top of the honey there were 3 little bees, struggling. They were covered in sticky honey and drowning. I asked him if we could help them and he said he was sure they wouldn't survive. Casualties of honey collection I suppose.
I asked him again if we could at least get them out and kill them quickly, after all he was the one who taught me to put a suffering animal (or bug) out of its misery. He finally conceded and scooped the bees out of the bucket. He put them in an empty Chobani yogurt container and put the plastic container outside.
Because he had disrupted the hive with the earlier honey 🍯collection, there were bees flying all over outside.
We put the 3 little bees in the container on a bench and left them to their fate. My dad called me out a little while later to show me what was happening. These three little bees were surrounded by all of their sisters (all of the bees are females) and they were cleaning the sticky nearly dead bees, helping them to get all of the honey off of their bodies. We came back a short time later and there was only one little bee left in the container. She was still being tended to by her sisters.
When it was time for me to leave we checked one last time and all three of the bees had been cleaned off enough to fly away and the container was empty.
Those three little bees lived because they were surrounded by family and friends who would not give up on them, family and friends who refused to let them drown in their own stickiness and resolved to help until the last little bee could be set free.
Bee Sisters. Bee Peers. Bee Teammates. ❣️
We could all learn a thing or two from these bees. 🐝🐝🐝
Bee kind always.

Lettuce and radishes are coming in. I need to do a video update on what’s been going on here at S***f Ridge. Stay tuned to see it this coming weekend.

THESE DOGS ARE BARKING!
After being on my feet all day giving the mock STAAR test, I was able to shape up my garden this afternoon and plant a few more things.

So far we’ve got Cherokee Purple and Parks Whopper and Celebrity tomatoes, Blue Lake beans, straight neck squash, Burpless cucumber and Clemson Spineless okra.

Also a little Honeywort, Zinnias and Bee Balm for the 🐝 and marigolds for 🐛 🐜 control and for the kitchen table.

We were able to share a few shrimp plants with friends and family and have a short visit.

The raised beds are coming along nicely with herbs and salad greens and a few fun things for adult beverages.

The 🐝 are buzzing and the baby chicks 🐤 are growing. It feels like spring 🌸 is well on its way!

Starting on the herb and salad beds plus a small planting of mustard greens.

Took down the garden fence today so I can expand. Kellogg’s Breakfast Tomato seedlings are up (from seeds saved last year) and more heirloom seeds coming in the mail this week from Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company Can’t wait to get my hands in the dirt! If you haven’t ordered seeds yet, try Baker Creek! You won’t be disappointed.

Not bad for a day’s harvest... these are for our family. I’ll let you guys know if we have any other fresh veggies available. 🍆 🍅 🥚 🥒

Momm took this beautiful pic yesterday after the rain. A reminder of God’s promise.

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Picking blueberries this morning!