Saturday, June 12, 2010


This is our garden so far this year. Everything is going very well with the exception of the attack of the squash beetle/borer worm whatever it is killing our squash plants! We think we have it under control now with a combination of "pick and drown" and diatomatious earth but we'll see. Diligent hoeing has kept the weeds under control this year as opposed to most years the weeds are getting ahead of us by now.

We did get a very late start this year. Usually we try to get most things planted on Good Friday but this year it was May 1st before we got it planted. It was tractor issues and then it was just too dry when we thought about planting so we waited and it seems to be paying off.

We tried a new thing this year of growing cucumbers upright on a tomato cage and it is working great (Thanks Lazy B for that idea). They take up a fraction of the space and don't lay on the ground where they tend to get discolored and eaten by bugs.
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Welcome!

Welcome to our family blog. We have a small (55 acres) farm and are attempting to raise beef cattle, some hay, laying hens, honey bees, a dog and a small garden. We also have a small pond that has fish in it but they pretty much raise themselves.The Twenty-eight eleven is the name of our farm. It comes from Deutronomy 28:11 which reads: "The LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your beast and in the produce of your ground in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you." We count on God's blessings for our life as we know it so we thought it appropriate to go ahead and give Him all the glory for anything good that we produce, be it crops, cows, or children. This blog will be a fun project for us to document what is going on at our farm and hopefully share some natural ways of farming along the way (as we learn too).