The 1st Anniversary

 We've owned Gohn Greene Farms for one year! Thanks for coming on this journey with us! When we started a year ago we had a lot of ideas about what we wanted to do for our little piece of land, for ourselves, for the Earth. We worked really hard this year getting the farm ready for a wedding and for providing for our family in the many years to come. Looking back it's almost funny how little we knew on day one. We had no idea what a persimmon tree looked like. Or how aggressively muscadine vines grow.

We didn't know we had jonquils, or honey locust, or wild cherry. We didn't know about the rose bushes planted along the fence, or the gladiolas that wouldn't come up for months.
It's been an awesome learning experience every day. We just wanted to get our hands dirty and learn, and learn we have. We planted apples and paw paws and figs and goji berries. We cleared the underbrush from little sections of forest, selecting for oak and persimmon. We'll be managing the blackberries better this year now that we have an idea of where we think we can control them.
Thanks again, hopefully you'll keep on following our journey this Spring and beyond. We've got some exciting things coming up this year. The muscadines should be our first "crop" of any sizable amount. We'll be pruning a lot of the trees concentrating on training them for the long term. After the wedding raised beds will start to take shape. We'll be putting in the anchor species to start guilds all over the farm. Check back soon, those Spring buds are about to appear, kicking off another growing season at Gohn Greene Farms!