Archive for ◊ September, 2008 ◊

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• Friday, September 26th, 2008

Thank You Inman Farm Heritage Days!
Good morning!I wanted to take a moment and thank each and every one of you that stopped by our booth at the Inman Farm Heritage Days celebration.  We had an absolute blast, and hope that you enjoyed it as well. 

Heritage Days has grown from a small tractor show to an annual event that thousands of people from all over the southeast come to attend.  Joanne, Rick, and Stephanie have truly accomplished something very special here in the little town of Inman.  They’re great people who really put their heart into whatever they do.  I hope that you found your wallet kind enough to make a donation.

We sold some scuppernog jelly (which if I do say so myself, turned out really splendid this year), sold a ton of soaps, some incense, and a few other things.  I absolutly loved meeting the family from New York, and the wide-eyed enthusiasm they carried around with them at some of the old skills on display at the festival.  I hope you guys really enjoy the jelly and soap, and welcome to Georgia.

Then there was the discussion I had with a local gardener about placing a beehive on her property to increase the pollination of her plants.  That’s exciting for me because geographical diversity breeds biological diveristy which is key to the survival of my bees.  Plus I can’t wait to see what kind of honey these bees choose to reward us with!  Yum!

I could go on and on about all the great conversations I had about how all soap is made with lye, where people were from and whatnot, but I don’t have space, the time, and I doubt you would have the patience to endulge me for that long.  Suffice to say that Heritage days is the highlight of my fall season and we eagerly look forward to seeing you next year.

For now, it’s time for me to get out the soap pot and get to work.   Fall Fling  (our next festival) is only a few weeks off!

-Brian out. 

 

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• Sunday, September 14th, 2008

Fall Madness !Sept 14, 2008
There is a certain satisfaction that comes from living your life with the ebb and flow of the seasons.  Fall is upon us here at the farm and the list of things to do seems to grow every day.  It seems like some days you just can’t get up early enough to get it all done.  Throw a 40 hour work week in there and it gets downright hectic.  This is our first year in our new home so admittedly the harvest was expected to be slim.  We did pretty well though considering the drought and our late start.  Our major harvests this year consisted of the following:

Grapes.  Boy howdy.  We have grapes.  I picked about 80 lbs of muscadines and scuppernogs.  You’ll see this turn up on the site as our delicious muscadine jelly.  This stuff goes quick folks.
Honey.  We only had one hive produce enough honey to harvest this year.  This is our first year keeping bees so we count anything we get as extra.  Next year we expect more honey.  
Apples.  We also managed to get about a hundred lbs of apples off of our small but enthusiastic apple trees.  Look for some apple jelly, and maybe some apple sauce or apple butter if I can find a good recipe for it.
And to think, it only gets better from here out.
-Brian