What a day!

Wooooooooweeeeeeee! What a day, what a day! So we didn’t finish today like planned, or hoped. “We make plans and God laughs…” Its okay though because tomorrow is another day, tomorrow isn’t ideal planting conditions, we will have sun tomorrow verses an overcast forecast. And even though everything didn’t get done, so much work did…

Outdoor Season Opener

Good Morning Folks, The day is HERE! The Dogwood is beginning to bloom, the weather is PERFECT for planting here in Plymouth today. Today we are expecting temperatures in the high fifties, drizzly, cloudy! This is perfect transplanting weather. Slightly higher humidity, no drying sun or wind! We couldn’t ask for a better season opener!…

Saturday’s season opener!

Hey everyone! Tara here from The Homestead Transformation, here at the Half Acre Homestead where plans are getting going for a great season opener on Saturday! We will be sharing portions of the season opener with everyone on our Facebook page. DON’T MISS OUR LIVE! CLICK HERE TO FIND ITS ON FACEBOOK! This morning we…

Greenhouse Log 5-8-18

Well folks here it is! Our final green house log of the spring what an amazing start to spring it has been. The greenhouse gas array started to be emptied, left inside are some more flowers that will need a little extra love, and mostly vegetables that will go out this weekend during our Outdoor…

Giving back starter packs

I don’t think I even have to say there’s no doubt I remember where I came from. I remember very well. Remembering this has made me so unbelievably eager to give back. I’m so unbelievably grateful to my friends at Plantation Products for their generosity. Thursday we brought room 4 at Head Start a great…

Future Growers Season 2 Episode 1 Guide

Of you’re not familiar with our YouTube channel now is a great time to check it out, and get caught up. Today we released our Season 2 Premier of Future Growers. Future Growers chronicals teaching youngsters, 1 little boy Asher in particular, all about growing from seed starting to harvesting. On this week’s episode we…

In the greenhouse update

As of 4/4/18 we have 136 plants started. Our overall total germination rate is 53% between 3 start dates (3/27, 3/30 and 4/2). Our average daily temperature in greenhouse is 90 degrees! We currently have 13 varieties of flowers and 8 varieties of vegetables. Saturday we will be filming our first episode of Future Growers…

More than it seems…

This Jar… This jar may look like nothing, but this is my Holy Grail. What makes this jar even remotely important, is that I got it from someone who always had the most spectacular garden… My grandfather. Many will look and see just a simple recycled Milk Bone container, but I see endless numbers of…

Something Sweet Coming Our Way

So often I go back to the beginning of our a story, being a single mom on food stamps. Having a dream, thinking that there was no way we could ever get remotely close, thinking it was merely a pipe dream. Of course it is still in the dream phase, but it’s growing, expanding. Our…

Decoding Garden Lingo!

Have you ever been to the garden center and felt like the staff was talking to you in some secret code that only people with a degree in horticulture could possibly understand? Even growing up around gardening and farming there are so many codes, abbreviations and terms that even I sometimes have to go, WHAT?…