Today I am leaving work early to take Pepper to the vet. I hope the news isn’t the dreaded back issue that many dachshunds have.

After the vet I will drop by Walmart to pick up some worm poop tea and visit the chiropractor. EWWWW! But the plants love it! It will help them get over the shock of being transplanted. Great stuff.

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Then its back home to plant plant plant.

Cheers!

Lots of stuff going on today. I’ll try to summarize as best as I can below.

-More trees have been taken down. Lots have died over the past couple of years due to the drought. We have to get the dead ones down so they don’t get blow over during a summer storm on the crops, fences, or horses around the property. And some of these trees are BIG!

-The board fencing continues to get patched and electrical fencing to the house garden is in progress. We were very excited to see the electrical fencing work, as you might have read from David’s earlier post.

-Fig tree is growing quickly and it is about time to start pruning and rooting limbs off the tree. I noticed today that several branches don’t have any early crop figs on them so we could go ahead and get some in pots.

-Front garden has one row planted with alternating beefsteak tomatoes and pickling cucumbers. We are running soaker hoses as we plant so the little baby plants don’t dry out in the sun before their root system get established.

-All the other seedlings are doing well in the basement awaiting their turn to be planted in the rich garden soil.

-David has filed our paperwork to become an LLC. Exciting stuff!

All in all we are on track with the facility part of the farm. I’m considering having several people over for a planting party this weekend, is anyone game? Send me an email at ashley@ponytailacres.org if you are interested.

Well we had one of those days here at PTA where nothing could go right. The tiller broke so plowing is at a stand still. The Bronco has a buyer so I tried to fix the idle issue and now I’m out of ideas. Now its raining (which I am not complaining about, I promise, with the lake still 7.5′ low).

Tomorrow is another day.

Hello everyone . After the obligatory first test post, I am going to give a general upate before going back and showing everyone the before pictures and play catch-up after all my slackness!

For those of you who haven’t read our entire website www.ponytailacres.org, we are opening an equine facility and organic farm based on substantiable and holistic principles. Isn’t that quite a mouthful? For the rest of us rednecks out there (in the middle of Alpharetta/Milton, hahahaha), that means we will have horses and food crops, all fed and tended through means which limit chemical interactions within our/their bodies and have little impact on the environment. Pretty cool huh?

Where we are at:

-need to get the rest of our personal items out of our house so we can rent it out

-need to plow garden areas and test soil. The areas have been fallow for 7 years so I don’t think we will need to add anything, but you never know. Organic fertilizers are limited and expensive so I hope not.

-seedlings are up and growing in the basement! Pictures to come later.

-general area clean up

-fix barns and fencing to bring in horses

-get insurance and make provisions to sell produce at farmer’s market and area restaurants

-get signs made for entrance to “farm”

-lots and lots of time and physical labor

More information and pictures to come later…but I hope ya’ll enjoy reading and experiencing the trials and successes of our venture!

-Ashley