Posts by Jenks Farmer
Protected: Early Pictures of Moore Farm
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Read MoreFrog Eyes & Sand Pears
I’m bracing myself for a cold, wet day at Goodness Grows nursery. Plant shopping is fun until the day turns bad. But the show must go on as the next 4 days of planting depend on today’s shopping — wet feet and all. One plant on my list is Tradescantia; which I learned as spiderwort.…
Read MorePeckerwood!
Tom and I spent an amazing 24 hours with an old friend, John Fairey, outside of Houston. John’s been there, gardening in the same place since the early 70s, but he says he’s still a South Carolinian. He named his garden after the fictional Beauregard Plantation in Auntie Mame (or if he needs a sweeter…
Read MoreMomma and Her Machete
How many people do you know who still have machete skills? And how many use them in everyday gardening? When I was writing my book, the Timber Press editor laughed when I wrote half a chapter on this noble tool. Of course, my Momma knows how to use one, and to make the best slaw…
Read MoreHow to Propagate Bamboo from Cuttings
How many things can you use bamboo for? If you live on a farm, eat Chinese food, walk on alternative floors, wear eco-friendly fabrics, then you know the list never ends. I know a bunch of native-plant-nazis are going to call me out on it, but in my new book, I promote proper bamboo planting.…
Read MoreNo Better High
I got credit and joy but all I did was to deliver the good news. A few pictures and an update and Yvrose face was shinning with pride. Her homeland, her country, the place of peaceful memories— like being put up on a mule to walk the farm roads was looking good. I can only…
Read MoreRemarkable people on a road trip to the Haitian/Dominican Frontier
We traveled about 200 miles today. It took over six hours. The map makes it look easy and smooth. But this is Haiti where sometimes pavement turns into goat paths and sometimes street rioters block the entire road with felled palm trees and burning tires. Well, that was a tiny part of the adventure of…
Read MoreProtected: Plant Nomads
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Read MoreSchools Out for the Summer (appropriately, it’s about 90F!)
My final day of teaching small farm and garden design at Zamni Agricol CFFL school started with coffee and bread (typical Haitian street breakfast) and ended a few minutes ago with a last minute request for me to teach again Tuesday. Students presentations of their design project proved they totally got the idea of bringing…
Read MoreLittle Plantlets: Just Like Their Mother
Pink Heliconia is parthenogenic. That means it makes little plantlets on the dying flower. Daylilies and other plants do it too. All are exactly the same as their mother. You can take those off and put them in nursery pots. On the day we picked the pink ginger plantlets, my friend Gillaine gave them away…
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