Sacred Grove Gardens

This weekend there was an awesome storm front that blew in from the west that dropped the temperatures down into the 60s. I gotta say, it was very appreciated. I got a ton of yard work done at the old house. When the temperatures are warm but not hot, the winter rye just goes crazy! It makes me wish I had rumen. When we got this place 6 years ago, the yard had a typical "get flood water out of here" design to it. Lots of gutter extensions and pvc ran water from the roof to the back of the property to the floodplain we back up to. Well, that didn't last long. I'm not wasting that resource! But I have spent the majority of my design time close to the house, so some of the older stuff I have never had a chance to really fix up. Perhaps the next owner will be more diligent. So there was this 20+ foot of gutter pipe that was on the ground that has been detached for years. I just never pulled it up. Well today in between weed eating batches, I finally pulled that gutter...

We're just 2 weeks from closing on the farm property! We've been working hard in preparation for nearly two years to make this jump, but good things come to those who wait. As we enter the first phase of this new adventure, we're kicking off a new blog to chronicle the changes from city folk to full time growers. Our new farm is just shy of 52 acres with a small owner built house and cattle grazing land located a few miles away from the Guadalupe River southeast of Seguin, TX. We have dreams to put in market gardens, an orchard, pecan/oak savannah, chickens, dairy cows, and restore the riparian area around the stream. But first things first, we still have to close on the place and pay the land off (will take a few years of hard work and a lot of luck). This all started about 4 years ago when I watched a Geoff Lawton video on youtube. What a fascinating man. I had long had this strange feeling that our life was irregular and out of balance, but lacked the sophisticat...