MEET THE BEES

For the past month we have had a hive here on the farm.  I didn't want to say anything just in case it didn't work out for us.  But so far so good. 

I drove to the East side of Indianapolis for these bees.  They said there would be around 3000.  Now, I am a big ole chicken when it comes to bees.  Those boogers hurt.  Can you imagine 3000 bees loose in your car?  They would own my car and I would walk home.  But I went and no one would go with me.  Bigger chickens. 

When I got there, it was kind of hard to find.  But once found, you knew you were in the right place because there were honey bees flying all over the place.  I really wasn't sure I wanted to get out of the car.  But I did.  I must have put on my big girl panties that morning. 

These people are the nicest people you would ever want to meet.  I must have looked like I was scared as heck because I was met at the door and ushered in.  I didn't see them do that to anyone else.  One of the owners stood right by my side and answered every question that I had and a few I didn't even know that I did.  Then can the dreaded moment.......they brought the bees out.

3000 bees can fit in a very small container.  They are seriously buzzing. But not really angry.  I asked if they would ride OK home for over 2 hours in my car.  He said "Hon, these bees are buzzed on sugar.  They don't know where they are and don't really care"  Then he said something that knocked him down in my estimation a peg or two.  "You have to touch them.  You have to carry them out to your car, you know"  There was no handle, no towel, no nothing.  I am still not sure how I got those suckers in my car.  But they were there when I got home.

Have you ever driven with a bee buzzing in your windshield?  Try driving when you know there are 3000 of them in your car.  Seriously, it is pee your pants kind of fear. 

Now they are home and you have to do something with them.  I mean they can't stay in the tiny container forever.  I was voting yep, they can.  But I didn't do it.  I listened to the man when he told me how.  So I told my dear husband how I was going to do it.  And of course he said "That can't be right"  Haven't heard that one before, have you ladies.

Anyway, I will spare you the details of you have to take the can out and expose what looks like the grand canyon of holes and hope the bees don't fly out just to get the queen and close the hole back up.  Then fix the queen and then liquor the bees up with more sugar water and hit the box on the hive so they will come out.  Oh hell NO.  But guess what, sugar drunk bees, don't care.  And the hit is gentle.  More like a love tap with some force to get them out.  It worked.

Then you got to feed them.  What????  I planted a million flowers for them, isn't that enough.  Nope.  They have to have sugar water in their hive.  Well, geez, it's like giving birth.  So now you got to open up the hive remove the box the queen came in and pray she isn't still in there and dead. (she wasn't) and fill up the food reservoir.  Smoke'em if you got em boys.  This does calm them down.  But I go dress to kill in the latest ensemble and yes white does make you look fat.  So far we have had to feed these little pigs about once a week.  I have no idea why I am weeding flowers for. 

But things are going well.  We have had to add another section already and it has only been a month.  They should be making enough food or laying enough eggs to get through the winter.  I am hoping so. 
PS:  Dear Hubby has taken over.  I am not telling him that he is doing anything wrong.  I sure don't want to get stung.  Female Farmers are not stupid.

WE'VE GROWN AGAIN!!!!

This year has been a year of growth for Appleseed Farm. 

1.  The fencing is done to keep those adorable little Bambi's from eating our blueberry bushes.  While we love to watch them as much as everyone else does, we are tired of feeding them all of our blueberries.  Well, not the berries but the bushes.  Those little suckers would eat the plants right down to the ground, no matter what we did.  I was fixin to go all redneck on them, but my sweet hubby decided that maybe I would be of more help out of jail than in and built the fence before I got arrested for shooting all those cute little so and so cuties.  Now, I just have to scare the ones that are brave enough to jump or crawl under the fence.  I threaten them with deer camp whenever I catchem'

2.  We have added not one, but 2 new greenhouses to the farm.  The first one was put up early enough in the spring in order to use this year, the second one will be in use for the fall.  We were able to grow things that the deer would not allow us to grow (they would eat them, of course).  We had some awesome green beans, cucumbers and tomatoes.  We haven't mastered the huge learning curve to garden in the greenhouse, but we will.

3.  New chickens were added to the farm.  I had decided to take a year off from animals and then get the pigs, goats and chickens next spring.  But my Dad decided to try and hatch chicks and I inherited 40 10 day old chicks.  They are about 9 weeks old now.  I am about ready to start butchering some and getting layers ready for the winter.

4.  We got a new van for deliveries!!!  It is the coolest thing.  It is not new but new to us.  We can put so much stuff in it and still have room left over.  It helps to keep things organized. 

I think that might be all that has grown.  Hopefully soon I will have pictures soon. 

See ya on the farm
Charlotte

Bloomingfoods!!!!

Great News for Appleseed Farm!!!! 

PourAPie is now being sold at Bllomingfoods in Bloomington, Indiana.  Bloomingfoods is a coop store offering local, natural and organic foods.  They are very supportive of the local food movement.  Being local, we are able to make our PourAPie as it is ordered and make the delivery as soon as it is ready.  How fresh is that.

Thanks Mac for believing in us

Charlotte

Ta Da Pictures of the Aprons

Here it is kiddies as promised:  The aprons of Appleseed Farm, well the adult version anyway.  This style I call  my Fun and Flirty apron line. 

These and several other styles can be found at our etsy shop.  YES, I DID IT.  I bit the bullet and openned a shop on etsy.  Our shop is appleseedfarm1.

Now for a store front......

See ya on the farm
Charlotte

Great week to be a farmer

This past week has been so busy, you would think it was planting season.  Tues and Thursday, I went to Indy for the Horticultural Conference.  The first day, I took classes all about record keeping.  Not just financial but also planting wise as well.  I am a poor bookkeeper to say the least.  If you doubt that, just ask my accountant.  On Thursday morning, I took classes on high tunnels and hydroponics.  Very good speakers.  I should have went to the first class but did not want to hear about protected plants.  Silly me thought it was about plants that were copyrighted protected.  DUH, when the whole morning was about high tunnels.  So, I missed a good class.  But did get to sleep in a little longer.

Tuesday night, I was a speaker at a women's meeting at St. Mary of the Woods.  I spoke about how I grew up, what my life was and is like, and how I started and continue to grow the business.  All that in 20 minutes. 

Thursday evening I jumped a mile outside my comfort zone.  I went to a networking meeting.  Now, kids, I have to tell you that I stink at marketing and networking.  I am happiest on the farm.  But go I did and I stank at it.  I hardly talked to anyone BUT I did go.  So at least points for me.  The more I go, the more comfortable I will get.

Friday evening, we had freezing rain come to the farm.  OK, it came all over but it did something wonderful for me.  This was the first weekend that I didn't go anywhere but also didn't have company.  It doesn't happen often, nor do I want it too.  But occaisionally it is nice.  It started to rain on Sunday a little so the roads have become a little passable but horrendous fog came in.  Boo for me, home again.

Meet the 4 generations of Appleseed Farm.

Planting in the seedling room has begun.  Read an article about growing root veggies in troughs.  Giving it a try, I'll let you know what happens. 

See ya on the farm
Charlotte..

New Year New Goals

Hard to tell this is January here on the farm.  It has been as high as 60 degrees here in Fairbanks, Indiana.  That means we have been able to tackle some of the outside chores that we don't usually get to until March or later. 

Robert has been out on the tractor the last 3 days.  He was able to turn the upper field to expose the weed seeds to the sun.  Hopefully they will germinate and then we will turn the field again.  Since we don't spray chemicals around here, weeds are a constant battle.  For the other two fields that we plant in, he decided that we would try another method that a local old time farmer told him about.  We burned the fields, this is supposed to kill the weed seeds.  This big time farmer told him that this is what his grandpa did to his fields instead of spraying the nasty chemicals.  Time will tell.  I hope it works.

I have been outside cleaning out the last of the raised beds.  We still had the peppers and eggplants in some of them. Of course, they haven't been producing since the killing freeze but the dead plants were still there.They had to go into the compost pile.  I also had to cover the garlic with straw.  (Holy Moly has straw gone out of sight, in our neck of the woods, it is over 5 bucks a bale)  I can't cover the strawberries just yet because they are still green and growing.  The deer haven't found them yet, I think because the garlic is planted in a couple of raised beds close by. 

Ok, Dudes...goals for this year

1.  Blog at least once a week and add pictures. Hard to follow the farm with only my not so adequate texts
2.  Pull the new orchard trees into straight alignment.
3.  Put new rock around the raised beds  (mulch was not a good idea)
4.  Get new greenhouse up and running
5.  Plant 200 more blueberry plants
6.  Build leanto so I can get the tractor out of my barn.  (can't move in there)
7.  Get milk goats  (Dad, here I come with a zillion questions)
8.  Get a certified dairy for the milk goats
9.  Learn to make cheese from goat milk
10. Get rid of the brown rot in the peach trees

I could list things all day.  Work on the farm is never done.  But it is a way of life that I love.  Hope to see you all soon.

See ya on the farm
Charlotte

It's Begining to Look a lot like Christmas

Everything is coming up Christmas.  I love it.  Yesterday, I put up 4 trees in the house.  I still have 2 more to go before that is done.  This is the first year in about 10 years that I have been in the Christmas spirit to do all the decorating.  But, Moonlight and Mistletoe, I am spirited this year. 

I think it may be a two fold reason. 

1.  After years of hard work, Appleseed Farm is starting to come into it's own.  In this economy starting and growing a small business has been frustrating, rewarding, loving every minute of it.  But difficult to say the least.  But it now has been worth it and we are starting to think of expanding.  HOW COOL

2.  The more important one to my heart, are my grandchildren.  I have a grandson who is 5 and 2 granddaughter who are 4 (not twins).  Of course there is Wyatt who is 11.  It has been fun experiencing Christmas through those little eyes.  Each light, each tree, each package brings sparkle to their eyes.  That has been a hoot or ho ho ho.  Sam loves to sing Jingle Bells whenever we are working on anything, doesn't even have to be related to Christmas.  I'm hoping for a Christmas picture of all 4 of them soon. 

Gotta go because it is beautiful here and I need to go trim in the blueberry fields.  Hoping to blog a few more times before Christmas.  If not, Merry Christmas.  Hope to see you in church for candlelight service.

See ya on the farm
Charlotte

What a spectacular fall

This has been a truly fantastic fall.  The trees are just amazing.  This time of year we are starting to wind down the gardens and get ready to put them to bed for the winter.  We started this about a week ago.  My brother-in-law has been helping out a little lately.  He feels he is one with the weeds.  He has been pulling lots and lots of weeds, spent plants and anything else that is left over in the raised beds and putting them in the compost pile. 

He doesn't understand my love affair with my compost piles.  You ought to hear him when I tell him that the tracter bucket full of debris is destined for the compost pile.  If he stays around long enough he will find out where we farmers get our black gold.

Much of my time as of late has been working in the kitchen getting orders for our PourAPie ready and shipped to the various markets.  I have also been making quite a bit of apple butter.  I have been co-packing it for another greenhouse.  But, I finally got outside to the garden and got the garlic planted for the winter.  So far, I have planted strawberries, asparagus and now garlic.  I am so excited, I have never had this much of a jump start on the spring before. 

I have also started rosemary in the seedling room.  Doesn't look like it though.  Hope the package wasn't mismarked. 

So now you know what I have been up too.  Just the ususal.  Tooling with the idea of milk goats for spring.  Any ideas?   Thinking of adding cheese to the line.

See ya on the farm
Charlotte

Through others' eyes

A few weeks ago, volunteers and a couple of employees, plus the Market Master from Down Town Terre Haute. It was a scheduled tour and a fun lunch of potluck.  I couldn't wait.

I had such butterflies in my stomach for at least a week prior the tour.  As I looked around the farm, all I could see was what needed to be done.  The gardens were weedy, the barns needed cleaned, the blueberries needed watered, again, the pastures needed mowed again, the chicken coops needed cleaned.  What was I thinking having people over when there were hours of work that needed done before we were "show ready". Well, they came anyway.

First words I heard, "Wow,  this is beautiful".  Breathe deep and relax.  So let me walk you through the tour these kids got and we will look at it through their eyes.  First up, the flower gardens as you come up the driveway are full of beautiful zinnias.  I stand looking at the weeds, the girls took their pictures in front of the gardens because they were so "beautiful". 

Next on the list, the barn.  It is full of "crap" both figuratively and literally.   The chicken coops need cleaned and the barn needs organized after the spring planting.  (We grow our own plants from seeds, so there are pots and soil and everything else everywhere.  Think of a toy room gone wild).  They oohed and ahhed over the baby chickens that were in the nursery, learned a few things about growing your own plants from seeds so you know how the plants were grown. 

Now, we walk out to the row crops.  Here we have blueberries, Indian corn, okra and green beans. Did I mention the weeds?  Lots and lots of weeds.  In fact, I bet my husband (the planter who should not give up his day job)  5 bucks that the way he was planting would not be good.  It would result in many weeds.  I am now 5 bucks richer but hand pulling a LOT of weeds.  The blueberries and green beans have been weeded and look good. We are providing water to these with drip hoses and overhead watering.  The Indian corn is 70% loss but the okra, just keeps a comin. 

Back up to the main production area for the market farm is my raised bed section.  I have about thirty 50 square foot raised beds.  Yes, these have some weeds in them but they are in high production.  We raise eggplants, peppers, tomatoes in these beds this year.  We also have had cabbages and bok choi for early gardens.  Each year we add at least 5 beds to the area.  We are hoping for a total of 75-100 beds.  They are very easy to maintain.

The orchards are close by these beds.  We have an old orchard with a mixture of apples, peaches, pears, cherries, apricots, and grapes.  The new orchard is more of the same just younger in age.  While they see a beautiful orchard that is producing great this year, I see the brown rust that has been the bane of my existance for the past 3 years on the peaches. 

Moral to this story:  If all you see if work at your farm, you have lost your passion for farming.  Have a group of people who want to live just the way you are doing now and you will see it through different eyes.  You will stil see the work but you will remember and realize that you are living the dream,

Totally Disasterous Summer

This has been a totally terrible summer.  We have had one wave of storms after another.  While that in itself might not be such a problem, the fact that lightening struck the tree next to our house and set the house on fire was a HUGE problem for us.  The fire itself was in the walls so it was difficult to find.  The electricity from the lightening strike flew through the wiring in the house and took out almost all the things plugged into the outlets.  This could have been fun to replace some older stuff with newer stuff but we have been systematically doing that for the past year.  So we have had to replace everything with new.  (Remember we just finished the kitchen into a handicapped accesible kitchen for me)  Finally got all the estimates and were about ready to start the repairs on the roof, electrical and plumbing issues (we live in the country so we have an electric well pump) when the darn tree, yep the same one, fell on the house again.  Came right through the garage and attic.  Luckally only a couple big limbs fell because if the whole tree came down it could have smashed me and Robert sleeping in our bed.  Now we have more roof and electrical repair. 

As if it couldn't get any worse, I stuck my foot into my muck boots and quickly pulled out my right foot and I thought I had got stung by a bee.  Not my luck, it was a spider.  Bit me between the big and 2nd toe.  Swelling and pain have been a close friend of mine for a few weeks now.  I don't know if spiders can bite more than once but I am fixin to fill those boots up with water and wash the sucker out.  Let this be a lesson to all - don't leave your boots outside no matter how bad they are.

See ya on the farm
Charlotte

Update on farm

It is another rainy day here at Appleseed Farm.  Suppose to have thunderstorms here tonight.  After the last week or so of beautiful, almost hot weather, I am ready for a little down time. 

This week, my brother, Tater (that is his nickname - he is officially Cliff but no one outside the family knows this) and I have been working our backsides off doing the farm clean up and some early planting.  He is a godsend for me.  He just works and works.  For those of you who don't know him, he has had some issues in the past but is trying to put them behind him as he is a father now.  He is also turning 40 this year.  I give him no leeway for excuses - just expect his best and doggonnit - he gives it.

We have planted some early eggplant, peppers and tomatoes in our low tunnels.  This is a new experiment for us but it is working out great.  We have had a few frosts but the plants have been doing well under the plastic.  We used an  easy bender from Johnny's and made arches from conduit.  It is easy. 

The flower beds (all 20 of them)  are starting to look fabulous.  My hands on the other hand, not so much.  They are just raw at the moment from weeding.  I use a lot of mlulch but no black plastic on permanent beds.  It is one of my concessions to the green movement.  Therefore I weed.

The orchards are absolutely spectacular right now.  The blooms will just take  your breath away.  The bees will just make you run away.  I need them there for the polluniation but not for the stings.  They do not like the stripping of the peach blooms.  We have yet to form a healthy truce. 

The 5 turkeys that I ordered have arrived  but will be at the poultry nursery at Jennifer and Sam's for a while.  They have also found us 3 roosters.  I plan to put them in the little coop and let them do their business.  In about a month or less, I hope for baby chickies, the old fashioned way.  I can't wait.  Haven't had any luck on the pig department yet.  Farmers are asking way too much for them at the moment because of 4-H.  Once that avenue is closed for them, I will get 2 little rascals for the back 40.  I haven't raised a pig since I was a kid and then Mom did all the work, so this is another experiment on the farm.

Due to the bad weather, I am doing a little spring cleaning in the house. My pantry was a disgusting mess.  I now have the junk off the floor and it swept and mopped.  I am throwing away a lot of canned goods because of swollen cans.  There has to be order to that chaos.  I will NOT throw away any more money this way.  Wish me lots of luck, I am a slob at heart.

I have saved the best news for last, it is a girls night out here on the farm.  Sam and Lauren are spending the night with Nana tonight.  It will just be us girls all night and all day tomorrow.  This will be the first time they both have stayed together.  They are both 3.  It will be a pink and Barbie evening for Nana.  If I survive, I will tell you all about it.

See ya on the farm,
Charlotte

Raining Basketballs in here our neck of the Woods

It has been raining cats and dogs here on the farm since late last night.  Or maybe I should say raining basketballs as Butler is in the NCAA championship game. I will surely be watching tonight for the Bulldogs to bring the championship home to Indiana.

Our nursery business has grown about 1000% this year.  We have added a wholesale account that keeps me transplanting 6-8 hours a day for the past month.  I love it.  It is so quiet in the seedling room that I can hear the chickens and the geese talking back and forth.  They don't get along very well. 

I have most of the raised beds ready to plant.  I had hoped to get some out on the 1st of April but it is forcasted to be below 32 degrees tonight..so I wait until Wed to get eggplants, tomatoes, cabbages and cauliflower in the ground.  I know that I am rushing the season somewhat, but the Farmers Markets start mid May to early June and I want to be ready.  I have the plastic to cover the plants at night to keep them toasty and healthy.

The fruit trees are just beginning to bloom.  It is beautiful but them I have a job that I really detest.  I have to knock off as many of the peach blooms as I can.  Peach trees put on way too many blooms and can't support that much fruit.  So you have to thin the tree or you either get quarter size peaches or the branches break.  I have to watch closely this year to see if the brown fungus from last year returns.  I"ll be on that like flies on poop.

I have finally hired someone to help me on the farm.  My husband has an off farm job and does what he can but he is only one man afterall.  (even though I think he is superman)  My youngest brother is helping out a couple days a week.  The farm is sure shaping up under his careful work.  To date we have:  mulched all the blueberries (all 2000 of them)  with sawdust, mulched all the orchards (3 of them with countless trees), cleaned several neglected flower beds and mulched them, cleaned 2 chicken coops (nasty and disgusting job), and have done a consideral amount of just general clean up on the farm while trying to keep up with the starting and transplanting of the plants.  We've had 2 weddings here on the farm, it looks so pretty right now, I think we are about ready for another if we had another child to marry off.

I have ordered 5 bronze turkeys from the local grain store.  They will be here on the 15th.  I can't wait.  Going to try and raise them for food for Thanksgiving.  Notice I said try.  I also have 2 baby pigs coming sometime soon.  Robert is not too happy about this but just shakes his head.  These will definitely be for eating.  This farm will become self supporting some day.  I hope.

Even though it is raining, I have to get back to work.  The rain has caused me to take a break and clean a dirty house.  So bye for now. 

See ya on the farm
Charlotte

greetings

Well its been a good start to spring on the farm!!! All of the blueberries are mulched and so are the flower beds!!! Yeah go mom.....today we made our 2nd plant delivery took me two trips...they were very pleased..... ...were transplanting more plants! Locked mom in the seedling room while I'm transplanting strawberries...well I'm gonna get back to work before mom shoots me see ya all ...Jennifer

farm talk

A lot has happened since the last blog. We have seedlings ready for transplant and starting new ones.(Our seedling room is getting so full). We survived the ice storm,sam is growing like a weed,wyatt went to his first rabbit show and came home with 3 trophys. Pour a pie is now in angels in sullivan and will be in linton by this spring. Our new baby chicks will be in soon but our old girls are pumping out 3-4 dozen of eggs a day. Our first show will be next month at the master gardeners forum and the the herb fair the saturday before mothers day and then robinson herb fair and then the downtown farmers market (which we may start in may but its still in discussion)

Time to Reflect and Smile

We, here at Appleseed Farm have been mourning the passing of yet another family  member.  Chad, a fellow firefighter (Robert was a career firefighter for 19 years before he got hurt and had to be disables) and dear friend, really one of the family died earlier this month.  He was 33.  He left behind a wife and 2 small children.
His passing sure leaves a hole in our family that will never heal over.

You're are probably wondering why I labeled this reflect and SMILE.  When I remember Chad, all I can do is smile.  His hearty laugh, his huge smile, his sunny nature... very rare in today's world.

Newsy farm post tomorrow, I promise
Charlotte

Blessings on the Farm

This past Thanksgiving was so different than any than I have ever experienced.  My Mom decided that the family has gotten too big and we didn't have a large enough house for all of the family to get together.  So this year we didn't.  Robert and I spent the day at home.  It really wasn't like any other day to me.  I fixed lunch and supper (we did have a turkey), cleaned the kitchen and worked on aprons.  So instead of feeling sorry for myself, I decided to count my blessings:

-I have a wonderful husband who wanted to spend the day with me. 

-We had the money to be able to have a turkey dinner at home.

-The critters were all fed special for the holidays.

-I have both parents still alive.  They spent the day with my sister and her family.

-I wasn't traveling when it started sleeting.  I just put another log on the fire and snuggled in to watch TV

-I did get to see Wyatt since he was hunting in the morning with his Dad.  I talked with Sam on the phone.

So see,  I am blessed even when I don't realize it.  Happy Blessings to all

See ya on the farm
Charlotte

Deer Season on the Farm

This is weekend is the openning of shotgun season for deer.  Since I grew up pretty poor and continued that habit after I got married, deer season always meant meat in the freezer for the winter.  I like to look at the pretty deer as much as everybody else but I also understand the need to maintain the size of the herd.

I spend many a spring morning standing at the window looking at the cutest little "bambi's" you have ever seen.  Cute little spots and wobbly long legs.  Those adorable little creatures do have a nasty habit of growing up and eating the plants I put in the market garden, nibble on the blueberries, eat fields of green beans.  Hard to make a living at farming anyway, add in the pests and wow, almost dang impossible.  Prolific little breeders they are too.  They generally have twins and sometimes triplets each year.  They breed as yearling, so deer explosion. 

While I don't mind hunters.  I can't abide the people who don't follow the rules.  Hunting out of season, using a spotlight for after dark, hunting on other people's property...shame on you.  But to me, the worse culprit of all is the dispicable person who shoots the deer and just cuts off it's horns.  Leaving the meat to rot.  If you don't want the meat, at least have the decency to donate it to a shelter.  Let it benefit someone else. 

OK, I'll stop ranting. 4 big bad hunters went hunting this weekend at Appleseed Farm.  I came back victorious.  Good job, Rick.  That 10 pointer was spectacular.

See ya on the farm
Charlotte

I HEART FARM KIDS

APRONS FOR EVERYONE

INTRODUCING OUR APRONS

for our littliest chef

To....

To the more, hmm, experienced chef.

(That is Nanny Dee, my Mom, can't make her mad)

They come in many different colors and patterns. 

E-mail me at appleseedfarm@yahoo.com for more info.

Happy Baking

See ya on the farm,

Charlotte

Let's Play and WIN

IT'S GIVEAWAY TIME AGAIN



We, fearless female farmers at Appleseed Farm miss our grandmas dreadfully at this time of year.  Except Sam, of course.  Both her Grandmother and Great Grandmother are alive and kicking.

We want to hear your favorite Thanksgiving story about you and Grandma.  Doesn't matter what you were doing:  cooking, shopping, playing the quarters drinking game, all goes.  For each reply (only one reply per person) you will have a chance at the prize.  You can earn another chance by posting this on your facebook page with a link to our blog. and yet another if you tweet or have a blog and talk about it.  So, if you are the most social network person alive you can get up to 4 chances to win. 

What do you win:  Jennifer has decided the big giveaway is either:  2 jars of pie filling (your choice of flavors) or an apron.  We are offering choice in case we get a guy to respond.  (OK John Jones, here's your chance)

Both amazing prizes are made by Appleseed Farm.  So here is your chance.  Tell us about Grandma. 

You have until the 12th at midnight to enter.  We will randomly draw a winner. 

Good Luck and...

See ya on the farm

Charlotte