Gardening

To put it simply – soil is to vegetable plants what food is to humans. With little or no food – human become sick and would eventually perish. The same …

As much as we love the holiday season – at the stroke of midnight on December 31st we happily turn our thoughts to the coming growing season at the farm! …

Hands down – Thanksgiving will always be one of our favorite holidays of the year.  Mary put it best when she described it a few weeks back in one of …

A few weeks back, after writing an article about canning and growing our own food at the farm (How The Garden Feeds Us) – Mary and I were amazed at the …

If you already garden – chances are when you read the list below you might chuckle a little as you think about the pleasures gardening can bring.   Whether growing …

This time of year – most of the questions that come to us are centered around plants in the vegetable garden – and what might be the cause of this …

Lettuce is one of the fastest and easiest to grow crops around.  It can be grown in the garden, in containers and raised beds, or almost anywhere you can clear …

Saturday was a good day for Old World Garden Farms! 15 months ago, when we first started this blog to document building our little farm – we felt fortunate to …

The dream of having our own bee hive at the farm – and of course our own  honey, finally became a reality this past week!  On Friday, we received our …

PART 3 of 4: Today is the 3rd part of our four-part series on how to plant a simple garden using raised row beds.  Over the course of the four weeks, …