Howdy friends. Nate here, writing you a letter on my blog instead of having Melissa send you all a thousand word message on messenger. Plus, I'll earn a few bucks for farm projects this way too. Be sure

New animals, new plants, new resolve.

Not a long post today, just some recent pics. Young bacons, and the mother of future bacons Afriend at church is getting into pork and found a good deal on some Texas heritage red wattle pigs. His property

It's fall. The days are shorter, the nights are cooler, everything is going to sleep. There's nothing to harvest for a while til the rabbits start kindling for the season. It's rest time. Enter sumac,

I said in my intro post that I'd share some shorter posts. I'm making good on that now, sharing some excellent foods I've encountered lately. My first ever skin-on pork chop. I was hungry, so I cooked

One of my goals here at my small suburban farm is to encourage people to grow their own food. Of course, I am more than willing to grow food for whom I can if they can't or don't want to put in the work.

Datura, moonflower, thorn apple, or jimsonweed, and a few other names are common names for the plant genus Datura, which contains quite a few species; all nightshades (members of the family Solanaceae,

I'm Nate. I own and operate Foxfire Orchards in Decatur, Texas. Welcome to my blog, where I'll write about my farm philosophy and goings on at the farm. I like to go pretty deep into things sometimes,