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The Dudley Historic Farm

One of my favorite places is the Dudley Historic Farm in Alachua County, Florida. It's so beautiful!

The farm is preserved and looks just like it did years ago when we lived in a more self-sufficient world. You can see in the picture above that the home is surrounded by gardens. There, even today, you'll see live crops of veggies…

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Added by Michael Levin on December 3, 2011 at 5:50am — No Comments

Fall Planting Ideas

Best bets for starting a traditional garden this month are:…

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Added by Michael Levin on September 18, 2011 at 8:07am — 2 Comments

A Great Day at the Garden!

I went to the garden tonight. What a good time! So many nice things happened. I rode up at dusk and found the garden drenched in the light of the sunset. My mission tonight was simple. I wanted to pick some mint for tea. Mint is dependable. I pulled one strand of the mint, took a look around and saw that the garlic chives were thriving, as always. Troopers! Tomatoes all over the place. Meanwhile, someone visiting the garden said hi. I took a walk around and saw some old… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on August 6, 2011 at 12:00am — 1 Comment

Sexy Radish Farm

Blow up your TV throw away your paper

Go to the country, build you a home

Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches...

(John Prine song)…

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Added by Michael Levin on April 25, 2011 at 9:15am — 1 Comment

A Great Day at the Garden!

I took a chance and planted sprouts yesterday...

The vendor, a Future Farmer of America student, confidently told me that the frosts were over. I bought 8 Big Boy tomato sprouts, 2 jalapeno and 2 bell pepper sprouts.

Just before Christmas, I planted seeds I'd accumulated from various sources: tomatillo, carrot, sweet cream and okra.… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on March 13, 2011 at 9:30am — 2 Comments

Get Spiritual, Eat Sweet, or Give Kombucha a Kick ::: You Pick!

There’s a book called “Finding God in the Garden”, by Balfour Brickner…

You can read (I like it) or you can go outside and discover a few things yourself. What’s a You Pick farm? It’s a farm where you visit and pick your own fruit. There’s a new

hostel in Gainesville called “The Zen Hostel”. Owner Tobe Terrell gave

me a book…

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Added by Michael Levin on July 9, 2010 at 8:30pm — No Comments

The Farm

I remember the house next to Lucy Brown’s. She and I would drop by as we

ran around playing back in the 60’s. We’d go inside and he’d be playing

Janis Joplin on the record player. The door was always open.… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on July 5, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments

Organic Farming, Fukuoka and just plain Good Music

Kane turned me on to Masanobu Fukuoka. I subscribed to the mailing list. I checked a copy of "Gardening for the Future of the Earth" by Howard-Yana Shapiro and John Harrisson out… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on February 27, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

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Russian Rye, Anyone?

Have you always wanted to make your own bread? Well, here's a little article about making rye bread with a bread machine. This bread machine came from a thrift store and only cost $11.99! The ingredients to make Russian Rye were so simple you won't believe how easy it was. Enjoy!