Lessons About Plants & Gardens
Spend a morning with band of young artists on the lily farm. We’ve asked these local, Augusta high school artists to share their works and vision. They’ll be all over the farm, showing, selling, talking, and learning. We’re also pairing them with renowned ‘mentors’ from Columbia — so they can build networks and have informal…
Read MoreSnowflakes or Snowdrops Bulbs that Outlast Us and Pretty Things Up for Folks that Come Later
I imagine he wore a fedora. One passed on or left accidentally by some traveler. His wife, the cook, the kitchen manager asked him to do it. Her kitchen, 100 yards from the house, revolved around a roaring fire. Like other outbuildings on the farm, it’s a practical, white, box of a building designed to…
Read MorePlants make our medicine, our arts, our breath and our utilities…..
This story was published in Augusta Magazine, May 2022.
Read More5 Seeds to Plant Now To Feed Your Soil & Soul in the Fall
Anticipation steeps on the farm. We, or maybe just me, are drawn to watching over our new seedlings as they mature into strong plants. I keep watch under the moonlight. I lend a helping hand to secure the grappling tendrils of a young Hyacinth Bean vine. Sometimes I go to this dark and mysterious place…
Read MoreMoths & Me. Lured In By An Ancient Cycle of Milk & Wine Lily Variation
When two individuals of the same plant species cross-pollinate, the seeds and resulting plants vary in size, flower color, petal shape, and even vigor. That variation among individuals, good for people and animals too, ensures adaptability and continuity of the species. Variations bring flexibility and strengths. Over hundreds of millions of years, some plants…
Read MoreThe Compost Bin Structure That Iris Built
Iris is in her second year of internship on the farm. She’s a student at a nearby arts high school and she’s recently been accepted into a summer month-long writing program at Berry College near Rome Georgia. As a part of her winter project, she reviewed various compost bin designs, selected one, then built a…
Read MoreJenkster’s Parsley Party Salsa
It’s too easy to grow and too good for your body to be used only as a garnish. Years ago, I came up with this way to use a lot parsley in a salsa — it is an unexpected crowd-pleaser inspired by a trip to Cambodia! The ingredients list is below. Here’s what to do:…
Read MorePineapple Lily; A Thoroughly Modern Bulb with a Quirky History
GARDEN STYLES It’s the easiest of summer bulbs to fit into any landscape or garden. Pineapple lilies grow readily, make great cut flowers and you can propagate them yourself from leaf cuttings. Alone or featured in a pot, it’s modern and architectural. A long row of burgundy leaves against a stark white wall fits into…
Read MorePlant List for Greenville Master Gardeners — Funky Little Flower Farm
The Bulb Lawn Ornithogalum umbellatum Star of Bethlehem Southern Snowflake Leucojum aesiveticum Read More Muscari neglectum Grape Hyacinth Tulipa clusiana Lycoris radiata Red Spider Lily Read More Lycoris sprengeri Tie-die Spider Lily Summer Bulbs Haemanthis aka Scadoxis Blood Lily Read More Amorphophalus sp. Read More Hymenocallis harrisiana Mexican River…
Read MoreFarm Lunch & Learn
A little farmstead down a bumpy dirt road, a lot of physical work and some ingenuity — that’s what American agriculture grew up on. Lots of us have come back to that after sowing oats around the globe, running away then thinking we could figure out a way to re-make those farmsteads with a new…
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