Longleaf Breeze

What do farming and retail have in common? You’ve always got one eye on next season. Yes, it’s cold outside as January comes to an end, but we’re thinking ahead to the vegetables we’ll be planting as the weather warms up. Continue reading “Podcast #272 – Here Comes Spring!”

We love longleaf pines. We love the soothing sound of a gentle breeze rustling through a longleaf stand; we love that they do most of their early growing below ground where it counts; and we love that they live many times longer than other pine trees in the south. Continue reading “Podcast #271 – A Few More Longleafs Every Year”

We’ll continue to be glad we heat with wood here at Longleaf Breeze. It’s reliable, it’s cheap, it warms us more deeply than a heat pump ever could, and we just love the aesthetics of it. But – yeah, you knew there was a but coming . . . Continue reading “Podcast #270 – The Gritty Realities of Heating with Wood”

We’ve been knowing about this one for nearly a week, so we had plenty of time to prepare. And it delivered all the cold and wind it had promised. Continue reading “Podcast #269 – Getting Through a Wicked Freeze”

Just as last week’s Christmas Day podcast was a rare one, so this week’s New Year’s podcast falls on the very day. Continue reading “Podcast #268 – As We Begin 2015 . . .”

It’s rare for us to have a podcast on the very day of Christmas. Here’s hoping it’s a wonderful holiday for you, as it is for us. Continue reading “Podcast #267 – Limping Into Christmas”

The Longleaf Breeze Weekly Podcast is taking a break this week. We’ll be back Christmas Eve with a fresh episode. Thanks for your patience!

When my friend Chuck Till posted about vinegar, it reminded us of how much we have used vinegar in just the past few days here on the farm. So we decided to use today’s podcast to think through all the good things vinegar does for us. Continue reading “Podcast #266 – Vinegar on the Farm”

We’ve talked about this day for months now, the day we usher aged laying hens from the coop to the dinner table. Yesterday was a milestone for us. Continue reading “Podcast #265 – Slaughtering Chickens”

We take the opportunity this time each year to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving and to stop and celebrate all the blessings for which we are thankful. And this year we have a full list. Continue reading “Podcast #264 – We Are Thankful for . . .”