OUR BLOG

Just new fruit goofing. Harvested our first grapefruits and Hamlin oranges today. As well as the usual fruit cocktails for our…cocktails. All from trees that ...

A year ago today we welcomed our son Quincy into this crazy world and though time has muted the impact of that experience we still ...

We have a revolutionary idea that anyone who owns land is therefore responsible for being a good steward of that land. No matter how small ...

Never let the lack of space stop you from getting into gardening. Our tiny walk-way garden is only 5 ft wide and only wraps half-way ...

So much going on at Rebel Farms! We’re expanding our permaculture food forest and this means we need to selectively cut old, sick trees out of the forest ...

Rainy days are typically pretty rough on us. There’s always so much to do, accompanied by a constant urge to make progress on all of ...

Exactly 365 days after Hurricane Ian flooded our small farm it’s hard to tell that it ever happened save for the tell tale water lines ...

“In our society growing food ourselves has become the most radical of acts. It is truly the only effective protest, one that can – and ...

“Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust” or so the prayer goes. The truth is we are all of the earth and to ...

A year ago today we did a thing. True to form, the festivities were strung out across three different local farms and two days of ...

We don’t use ANY insecticides and it’s a point of pride, but it’s also the biggest challenge to the stability of growing our own food. ...

We wish you could smell this photo. There’s no essay this week. No musings on existential questions and problems. Just a picture of our favorite ...

It’s no secret that I despise hallmark holidays. I have a contentious relationship with everything from capitalism to organized sports and especially organized religion. In ...

Everyone who knows us knows that Maggie is the heart and soul of Rebel Farms. But she’s oftentimes the muscle too. Though I (Mr. Rebel ...

Over the coming weeks we’ll be showcasing our various food forest mounds. The back portion of our property is literally a swamp with a high ...

We know y’all know about pollinators. We all know honeybees are crucial to food production blah, blah, blah. We all know monarch butterflies are under ...

It was a big planting day on the farm today. Turmeric. Ginger. Bananas. Beans. Onions. Cucumber as well as lavender and rosemary and even a ...

It’s been a long, bleak winter at Rebel Farms. Freezes wiped out many of the crops that managed to survive Hurricanes Ian & Nicole. But ...

We’re so excited to have eggs to offer! And though having an abundance of fresh, organic eggs was always a goal, it’s only one of ...

It’s been a minute since we’ve posted. We’ve been hesitant as our entire property is currently a construction zone filled with fallen trees, building materials ...

Fruit update. Thanks to all the hard work of our friends and families these fruit trees survived the hurricanes and flood. We’ve now replanted all ...

We have chickens again! Big shout out to @charleyschicks for helping us get a great mix of 12 laying hens. Can’t say enough good things about their ...

Thank you everyone who came out to help us plant trees on our farm day. In all we planted over 30 fruit trees, 250 pounds ...

Sneak peak of our new chicken coop. We built this from the wreckage of what used to be our tree nursery (which was destroyed in ...

Making progress on rebuilding the A-Frame. We took the first photo when there was 3 feet of flood water inside and still, it was beautiful. ...

Been super busy restoring the farm. After the hurricane we realized how dangerous the invasive elms on our property had become. Plenty came down in ...

We did it! Introducing baby Quincy. The last few weeks have been a blur. The hurricane. The flood. The recovery with the help of so ...

DM for more info and to RSVP.$$ Fundraiser in bio It’s been a rough week for the Rebel Farms gang. Some of you that follow ...

Pickin’ fruit and playin’ with cats. @mermaidmaggie (AKA Mrs. Rebel Farms) is two weeks out from giving birth to our first child right here on the farm! ...

Sneak peak of our A-frame guesthouse. Can’t wait to show y’all the build process once it’s all done. Come stay with us!

We left the farm for nearly a month and it was so gratifying to come home to see so much new food in both the ...

It’s our last day in Rhode Island and we wanted to show you co-founder @mermaidmaggie ‘s family farm on Aquidneck Island where she grew up and where ...

Building our first guesthouse on the farm.

Found this guy whilst turning our compost. Thought it was an earth worm and rather slowly realized I was holding (what I hope) was a ...

These exquisite flowers smell divine, are edible, excellent pollinators and absolutely gorgeous. With over 60 stalks it’s safe to say we won’t be buying ginger ...

Guess it’s time to make a cover for our compost bin.

Afternoon moods. This is our outdoor shower we completed recently. Nothing’s square. Leaves from the over hanging loquat tree keep it messy and we wouldn’t ...

TBT to the days when our first raised garden beds looked this organized. Before we learned that just because a spot in the yard is ...

So excited about our first successful guava grafts. The plan is to continue cloning our 400+ fruit trees into more and more producing fruit trees ...

Here’s what’s on the menu today at Rebel Farms…Calomodins, Avocados, Eggplants, Limes, Lemons, Elderberries, Figs, and Raspberry’s. Going to be a very interesting dinner tonight.

Say hello to our new farm cats. One boy and one girl. Currently accepting all name ideas, preferably a duo (IE Cheech and Chong).

Looks like sweet potatoes for dinner tonight!

It never gets old watching food grow. This seedling came from our compost from a meal we had months ago.

Recycling shop vacs we found in the trash and turning them into pots for our new baby mango seedlings.

Salvaging some blue berry bushes and planting new crop of coffee! Also introducing our farm truck / tractor “Olive” the rover.

First peach of the season! We now have more than a dozen producing peach trees that are able to thrive in Florida with low chill ...

We’ve felt torn about how to tell this story as it isn’t as cute as the photos. We’ve been plagued by critters – racoons & ...

We don’t always take pictures of our food for instagram, but when we do, it’s because we grew it ourselves. Introducing our first ever Florida ...