2010 Season

We anticipate that blueberries will be ripe and ready to pick beginning Wednesday, June 2nd. Our hours are 8 AM to 1 PM Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Please call (903) 674-2477 before driving out to verify availability.

Picking Blueberries In East Texas With realtraveladventures.com

While we’re waiting for opening day to come around, read about Bonnie Neely’s blueberry-picking day trip to Kiomatia Blueberry Farm.  Bonnie writes for Real Travel Adventures International, featured over at realtraveladventures.com — which you want to go check out now!  Don’t miss their other new articles, archives… and be sure to subscribe to their free [...]

Toward the 2010 Harvest

Here it is April and we are not quite half way finished with trimming the rabbiteye bushes which are in full bloom.

After a heavy pruning early last season, there were very few blooms on the rabbiteye bushes — then we had a late freeze, which nipped them just as the berries were starting [...]

Notes on the Expanding Urban Farm Field

Googling “urban farming” yields, not surprisingly, numerous results for cities such as Portland, Oregon, presently — but where it really starts to look interesting is when you look at one of the United States’ most economically depressed cities: Detroit, Michigan.

from the Urbanophile:

Detroit is also attracting dreams of large scale renewal through agriculture, as Mark Dowie [...]

KBFarm on localharvest.org

We just got a nice entry on the Local Harvest site.  Its really nice.  Thanks, Cora!

On the “Return” to a “New” Agriculture

(A work in progress)

Every so often, societies, from microbes to men, cyclically find themselves in a time of uncertainty, even panic.  It seems to happen much more frequently than people even seem to collectively recall, it seems.  Then, the dust clears, and just as cyclically there is a period of new interest — a frontier. [...]