Farmer Browns Journal

The Day this Farm Girl Got Away – Farm Chicks Antique Show 2011 by Jenny Brown Anyone who raises farm animals, especially dairy, knows it’s hard to get off the farm for very long. Well, this farm girl managed to escape for a few hours today…what better place to escape to than The Farm Chicks Antique […]

Growing and Raising Your Own Food – Is It Really Worth the Work? by Jenny Brown “When people ask us what we do, the response is usually “That’s a lot of work!” Yes, it is. It’s more work than we’ve ever experienced. In fact, it’s so much work that it has become our lifestyle because […]

“You’re Flower Gardening in November?” By Jenny Brown When you raise your own food, and especially when you write about it, people always ask  “How’s the farm?” or “How’s the garden?” I find the reactions amusing when I’m asked those questions in November and I tell them “I’ve been spending time in my flower garden.” It’s true. I have […]

How We’re Getting Ripe Tomatoes with the Cooler Season this Year By Jenny Brown The past two summers have been much cooler than I remember them ever being. In our little farmville,  it seems there is griping every spring about the cold temperatures, it’s as though we all have never fully accepted the fact that […]

It’s time to dust off your indoor plant stand or build your own grow light stand! – Organic Gardening Series – Part 3 I’m getting excited about starting seedlings!…It’s still a bit early for planting most everything where I live but this afternoon I pulled my indoor plant stand out, dusted it off,  and got […]

Not All Sisters Get Along – Our Three Sister’s Planting Experience by Jenny Brown It seemed that ‘Three Sisters Planting’ was a big ‘buzz word’ in the gardening world this past couple years. From gardening magazines and blogs to the front page of a local community paper that has very little to do with gardening. It appeared everyone […]