At long last, autumn arrived at Floating Axe Farm. Real autumn. You know… the part where the leaves drop.
Fall At The Farm
You know what we haven’t done in years? Visited a farm. Other than our own, of course.
An Orchard
Fall has finally come to East Tennessee. The weather gave one last 95 degree gasp last week and two days later, the temperatures plummeted, the…
“Is everybody ready to be so happy?!?”
This week marks our two-year anniversary of moving to and starting Floating Axe Farm. As we pulled into the driveway for the first time with most…
Floored
We started a little project Tuesday. Most of the happenings at Floating Axe Farm take place outside, but this one is a decidedly inside…
Al Fresco
I love eating outside. I have happy childhood memories of sitting down in a wet bathing suit to a meal on a white paper plate,…
Free range learning
My mom used to call us ‘free range kids,’ like free range chickens… We roamed the countryside. —William Moseley I think we skipped from March…
Blueberry Dreams
Just up the road from us, a farm that has been a community stand-by is shutting down. By fall, instead of growing apples, peaches, blackberries,…
Waking Up
Green Acres is the place to be. Farm livin’ is the life for me. Land spreadin’ out so far and wide Keep Manhattan, just give…
5 Life Lessons My Kids Have Learned From Our Chickens
It’s not just the eggs, folks. While our kids have gotten some priceless lessons in economics through our family’s chicken farming experience, keeping these birds…