October 24, 2008: Thanks to everyone who came out to Farm Fair this year. It was a big success and everyone seemed to have a good time. Thankfully, the weather ended up being nice that day after a cloudy start. We are wrapping up our tours and our vegetable sales for the season. November 1st will be the last day of tours and our produce market will also close that day. We will be reopening in the middle of April when our strawberries begin to ripen.

Speaking of strawberries, we just finished planting them last week. We planted over twice as many berries this year since we had such good demand for them last year. They seem to be off to a good start. They will grow throughout the winter and begin bloom in early spring.

We are just beginning to pick our cotton. We will start harvesting our soybeans and milo next month. We’re still busy on the farm!

September 16, 2008: Pumpkin season is here again! We have begun harvesting our pumpkin crop, and it is one of our prettiest in years. August and September had less 90 degree days than usual which led to our pumpkins having a deep orange color. Pumpkins do not like extremely high temperatures.

We have decided to have our Annual Farm Fair on October 11th this year. We are excited to have the Roman’s Revenge pumpkin chunk’n catapult return this year with Captain Kim Moore. We will also have a blue grass band playing live for the first time this year. More details about October 11th can be found here on the website.

Our cotton crop was hurt this year by the dry weather. We will begin harvesting the cotton around the first of October. We also planted soybeans this year which the late rains have helped a lot. We will harvest them after first frost which usually falls around the middle of October here.

On September 15th we bedded up our rows for our strawberries which will be ready Spring of 2009. We will plant the strawberries October 15th and they will grow throughout the winter.

Hope to see some of ya’ll at Farm Fair this year!

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