Life on Favor Tree Farms
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Autumn Leaves and Fruit Trees
Welcome to autumn on Favor Tree Farms. The autumn season is one of the most beautiful times of the year. The leaves are turning brilliant reds, deep burgundy, golden yellows, and stunning shades of orange. Here at Favor Tree Farms is no different. The landscape of our farm shows the changing seasons even with our fruit trees as they prepare for their winter nap. Only a couple of our fig trees still bear fruit. Our holly trees are in full bloom. We hear the crunch of the fallen brown leaves under our feet where the grass once was. The leaves are now a beautiful brown blanket that covers most of…
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Summertime on the Farm
One thing we love here at Favor Tree Farms Inc is visitors. We always have enough to care, enough to spare and enough to share. When You Visit Our Farm Whenever anyone comes to our farm, they get a tour of our fruit trees and our vegetable garden and a few flowers. We are not so fancy, but we are happy and growing. When you visit Favor Tree Farms you will see our vegetables and fruit we grow from seed to include cucumbers, mint, tomatoes, okra, lettuce, marigolds, snap peas, and elderberry. We have apple trees, fig trees, and pear trees and the newest addition to our farm is the…
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2024 Small Farm Conference
Welcome Back! It has been a while; it seems this year is whizzing by faster than I can keep up with. The main growing season is over and now it’s fall, and everything is changing fast. This month my husband had the privilege and opportunity to attend the 2024 Annual Small Farm Conference in Norfolk VA. This was the kickoff to the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Certification Program. Out of seventy to eighty applicants my husband was chosen to participate in this program that will take about a year to complete. This is very exciting news for the farm. This program will allow us to develop a networking system and…
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7 New Lessons from My Garden
Besides all of the physical and mental advantages to growing food, learning is also beneficial and this year I have learned quite a few things. It’s been very exciting to delve into books and videos to see how I can improve my growing skills. As a matter of fact, gardening skills teach many life skills, so it’s all a huge plus. I’m happy to share seven new things I’ve learned this gardening season. Let’s dive in! 7 New Lessons from My Garden Lesson #1: Companion planting is a game changer. I have always heard of companion planting and I had a general idea but I never really took time to…
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7 Amazing Reasons to Grow Food
Growing my own food is absolutely one of the best ideas I’ve incorporated into our family’s life. If only I had started this earlier, but as the saying goes: “better late then never.” Growing food is as natural as it comes. After all, grocery stores have not been around forever. Who knows if they will always be around. Seven Amazing Reasons to Grow Food There are many reasons to grow your own food but I’ll just list the seven amazing reasons that come to my mind. 1. When you grow your food, you know exactly what you’re getting. You’re able to source good seeds, especially non-GMO. You know the source…
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Spring Has Sprung!
One sure way to tell spring has sprung is when I see the budding of the fruit trees. This is my absolute favorite time of the year. Everything is budding, blossoming, and springing up! The grass is getting green again and the days are longer. All is waking up. Spring: A Time to Plant Soon enough it will be time to plant all the seedlings that have been growing indoors. That is, after the last predicted frost of the season. This year, I have lots of seedlings going for marigolds, broccoli, okra, and cucumbers. More on that in a later post. 🙂 Spring: A Special Time Spring is a special…
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Welcome to Life on Favor Tree Farms
Welcome to life on Favor Tree Farms where we work hard to show you just how easy growing food can be. We’re delighted you are here and we hope you have a plum-pleasing peachy-keen visit! Who is Favor Tree Farms? We are Tyrone and Verlyn and our farm is located in the beautiful state of Virginia. With combined forces of doing what we love to do (teaching, growing food, and writing), we are sharing our journey with you. Growing food is a lot easier than you may think. If you can stick your finger in the dirt and make a little hole and drop a seed in it, you can…
