Life on Favor Tree Farms
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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…
