New fruit goofing
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 survived the hurricane. Happy Saturday y’all.
One year ago!
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 remember it in vivid detail. The Aztecs equated childbirth to warfare, and pregnant mothers as warriors in a titanic struggle with the gods to wrestle their children from the great
Revolutionary idea!
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 your plot, from 1/8 of an acre to 18 acres, you can grow your own food, sequester carbon & turn much (if not most) of your household waste into soil
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Back porch shade garden
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 around our back porch. Theres little space, and even less light. Most our property is made up of native or edible plants but this is a space we chose to
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Updating Rebel Farms
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 so that new fruit trees can take their place. Shout out thank you to @royaltyoutdoorsfl for putting in a hard week clearing these trees whilst keeping our existing food forest safe and
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Rainy Days!
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 the projects we’ve started or are yet to start. The tick tock of life’s ceaseless clock ever in the background of our consciousness tapping melodically on a linear path forward.
A year after the flood
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 on the walls of our home, the thin film of motor oil from the flooded cars that still cotes tree trunks and the water-warped doors that have never quite shut
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