How’s it Growing? Brad Daniel Healthcare administrator with a passion for farming and forest health. We counted! Doing the year end inventory of how things are. As you may know, farmers are required to inventory their products at the end of the year. This year, my father helped me walk the rows and count the […]
Drought in Virginia Marcy Daniel At the end of September, Albemarle County remained at 4.26 inches below normal rainfall. The drought has been hard on our little trees, but there are signs of resilience everywhere. We are quickly learning that the White Pine and Norway Spruce are doing the best. In future plantings, we will
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Dryland Farming Brad Daniel Healthcare administrator who traded the conference room for the farm. Raised in Virginia, trained in Sustainable Agriculture in California. Almost four months later and the lavender is holding on! We have had to be creative as we still do not have running water. It turns out there is a name for
Farm Day 2023! Brad Daniel Healthcare administrator who traded the conference room for the farm. Raised in Virginia, trained in Sustainable Agriculture in California. What do you do when you have no running water, no bathroom, no electricity, and 3 out of four of your family members are only available in the summer because they
Lavender’s Blue, Dilly, Dilly… May 23, 2023 Brad Daniel Healthcare administrator who traded the conference room for the farm. Raised in Virginia, trained in Sustainable Agriculture in California. Wishing I had asked my great-grandparents more questions about their farm! Our second crop is in the ground! It started with how many 4 quart lavender plants
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Here We Grow Again! May 21, 2023 Brad Daniel Healthcare administrator who traded the conference room for the farm. Raised in Virginia, trained in Sustainable Agriculture in California. Wishing I had asked my great-grandparents more questions about their farm! Wow! What a difference 4 weeks can make. A little dose of fertilizer and the spring
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To Fertilize or Not to Fertilize? April 6, 2023 Brad Daniel Healthcare administrator who traded the conference room for the farm. Raised in Virginia, trained in Sustainable Agriculture in California. Wishing I had asked my great-grandparents more questions about their farm! Happy Spring! I have not checked in for some time. The trees are still
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Hey, we are still here, just feeling a little dormant! Brad Daniel Healthcare administrator who traded the conference room for the farm. Raised in Virginia, trained in Sustainable Agriculture in California. Winter is a time of rest and renewal. All of us new trees have been in the ground for four months now. We look
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What’s gotten into our Trees? Brad Daniel You know you have a healthy forest when there are all kinds of deer romping through. Amazingly enough after 2 months, we have only lost one or two of the 400 trees. There are a few more, though that seem mysteriously picked up and laid on the ground
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Whispering Bear plants first crop – 400 Trees! How do you start a farm in 2022 in the middle of a forest with no house and no barn? The same way it’s always been done, some praying, some planning, and a lot of family participation! On September 29th we began the process of planting our
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