Hey All, I know it’s been a while since my last post, but a lot has been going on at the farm. Blueberry season is pretty much done so I will be posting videos of how we have to prepare the bushes for

Duraznos Más Frescos Time to start finding some peach recipes!

Down to just four eggs now, but here is my best shot of them this week. Based on my research this is a shot of a healthy egg. You’ve colors that detail life such as the red blood vessels and the red orange

U-Pick Season is well underway so I’ve been super busy out here in the orchard. Here is a shot of my supervisor Herbert helping with quality control. Sweetie’s Orchard is now open for business and while

I rescued two orchids from the plant store the other day. Finally got a chance to repot them after doing a bit of research on how to keep them best happy. Orchid care is a lot more trendy now that a deeper

These photos aren’t of live duck or developing eggs but they’re still informative. The first one is of an egg that I am pretty sure is not fertilized. It’s mostly see through and there are no veins, which

This is a photo of egg number seven. The development of the embryo is shown using a powerful flashlight in a dark room and an iPhone camera. It’s day seven for the eggs which means I got to candle them

They’re so ripe you can taste them! I definitely have taste md a few myself, quite delicious!

Here’s a Quick photo of the eggs in their new home. There are ten that I’ve marked with Xs and Os on opposite sides since I don’t have an automatic turner. They need to be turned a minimum of four times

Text: When you’re in a dark place you sometimes tend to think you’ve been buried. Perhaps you’ve been planted. Bloom. #HappySaturday

Hey all so if you have had a chance to stop by the farm or explore the blog you know about the ducks at Sweetie's Orchard. We've been hoping for ducklings since the last farm tour in January, but no such

I'm just kidding but check out these shots from the orchard. Our friend Nush stopped by and he brought his camera. He recently picked up photography and these are some of his best shots. Hoping he will

Sierra Leone just became the first country in the world to let its citizens vote using blockchain! This is an article from the business insider website by Rosie Perper. In the article a Swiss based company

LoL saw this post a little too late... But I’m not in the city anymore and it was getting a little messy between the rows of berries. It’ll be a lot easier now to do irrigation and harvest these berries!

Hi all! I know it’s been a short while since my last mushroom post. I am still working on finishing up the last of the shiitake plugs but I just wanted to start sharing with what I’ve done. We used oak

In his favorite spot, but why? 😒😂

It’s a full house today on Sweetie’s Orchard! Nikolai came to visit with Kat and their parents stopped by too! They brought our friend Jake and of course Sunshine. With everyone here it’s a full house

This morning I woke up to a phone call from my supervisor Herbert. Literally the first words out of his mouth were "All the plants are dead." I think that I am dramatic sometimes but no comparison

This is just another plug for the upcoming Central Florida Farm Tour. As the flyer below indicates it’s a self guided driving tour of working farms throughout Polk County. The first tour was great - we

Maybe it’s something I’ll have to get used too. Boston the biggest animals you’d find are rodents like squirrels. But this hog even without the back legs looks to be bigger than Oatie! The vultures were