It's time for us to turn over 7 garden beds. These garden beds will be used for fall and early winter crops. Plants like lettuces, kale, carrots, beets, radishes and sugar snap peas. The first step we

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What is Steem Social? The main purpose of the app is to help promote SteemIt posts to various social media channels such as Facebook, Google Plus, LinkedIn, Pinterest, etc. And at the same time it will

How Engaged Are Steem Users in Voting for Witnesses? That's what this monthly report is all about! This month's engagement rate for accounts with 100,000 VESTS or more is: 30.08% That's up 9.9% since last

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

Desperate times call for desperate measures! Three months ago our dishwasher gave up, and it's been in the shop since. Every time the shop calls me, something else has gone wrong with it, or the part they

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

I've been doing a lot of considering and pondering lately about a serious issue here on steemit. A certain issue has arisen lately, and I think that a very reasonable solution is possible. Concern has

This is a call for any "whales" who really care about their investment to man up and work with me to clean this place up.  Please, I cannot do it on my own and I need help.  It's time. You know

The mushroom plugs I ordered finally arrived! I used a website called southeastmushrooms.com and there are two types “pearl” oyster and shiitake. Going to start with about 100 plugs of each but I’ll definitely

This post is about how I made our first batch of compost on our farm using one of the various compost making techniques. Compost is a vital component for many homesteaders and organic farmers. It's a good

My boss came by to visit this past weekend. He’s pictured here with me playing catch/monkey in the middle with two doggos. He has a German Shepherd named Sunshine I’d been hanging out with for the past

This post is about the first bunch of vegetables and food crop we harvested from what we planted. To begin with, we'd only used around 3 of our terraces to grow crops on an experimental basis. I tried

We go through 50+ pound of Sportsman Choice Catfish Feed in a week. Not only do the tilapia on the fish farm enjoy the protein rich feed - the chickens and the ducks enjoy it as well. For about a week

In this video, I am going to show you the progress that we have made with the house.

This past Saturday was the annual Central Florida Farm Tour in Polk County Florida. This year Sweeties Orchard was featured on the tour and we had so many visitors! Families, couples and individuals came

Look at this lemon! I found this on a visit to a Lucky's in Oakland Park. In the picture my friend Kat and I are holding two lemons, but they aren't round like you'd expect. I did some research and found

   Last week we had two days back to back 60+ degree weather. Now we have 7 inches of snow on the ground. The snow is pretty but I'm read for some wild flowers!! THANKS FOR POPPING BY

Just sharing a cute video of the ducks on the farm. There are about ten ( I haven't gotten around to naming them yet). They live in a little pond that Herbert dug out for them, right next to the fish pens.