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SCORE!

6/18/2013

 
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2013 Spring
Potato Harvest 
Saturday was potato harvest day and my mom came to help gravel potatoes. 

Not bad at all for $1.50 seed potatoes and $40 for materials ~ ~ mainly mushroom compost and wheat straw. Stay tuned for the BEST red potato salad recipe.
There's a secret ingredient that had them coming back for seconds. 

well butter my butt and call me biscuit

6/3/2013

 
I couldn't have been more shocked if I'd found gold.
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How does your garden grow?

5/28/2013

 
Mary's grew on silver bells and cockle shells, but mine grows mainly on goose/poultry crappy bedding.
It must be happy. It looks happy.
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Blackberry Winter

5/5/2013

 
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In Alabama and all across the south, spring is a mixed bag of warm, cool, cold and even hot (especially hot) weather. After weeks of warm weather with leaves on the trees and GREEN as far as the eye can see, the only words James Spann (local weathergod) can come up with for this oddly COLD weekend is:       

"Blackberry Winter"


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Come play in the dirt

3/14/2013

 
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Rocky Top Lettuce Blend
Spring is coming fast in Alabama.  How is it already March?? I love having a mixed leaf lettuce garden and MISSED the planting date for our zone. Lettuce is cool season crop, and for a warm climate like Alabama, should be planted no later than February to allow enough growing time before the heat is too much and lettuce "bolts" into seed and not edible any longer.

Not surprising,  I found seed potatos at the feed store. Potatoes are a warm season crop and need rich amended soil to grow well. I haven't grown potatoes in many years mainly due to the hard clay soil but couldn't resist since I had the garden space already set aside. Stay tuned....


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    Kelley Creek Farms is a small (micro really) hobby farm located in Central Alabama 30 minutes south of Birmingham. We raise heritage and rare waterfowl and poultry along with a myriad of other creatures that give the farm its life. In addition to the birds, we raise heirloom tomatoes and vegetables.

    Each day is different and brings a new set of adventures. Some make you laugh and some make you cry. Some are just plain frustrating. But we persevere knowing that tomorrow's set of problems will be completely different than today. Still figuring all this out ....one day at a time and striving for a more sustainable way of life.

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