5-Mile Farms

04/11/2024

Team RG 💚

12/23/2013

04/12/2013

Growing some of your own food can be transformational -- in Austin you can start anytime (check out if you need help. Texas--Pride should apply to local food. Texas--Fight is the attitude we should put toward it!

Stroll’s 2013 Locavore Index ranks states in terms of commitment to local foodsBRATTLEBORO, VT — How does your state stack up against all the others when it comes to availability and consumption of locally-produced foods? Strolling of the Heifers has the answer.The Vermont-based local food advocacy…

01/25/2013

Lisa saw our Groupon add and emailed about building a sandbox for her son with autism (a good day at work!) --

AWESOME!

Randy, your guys did an awesome job. I haven't seen much of my son since they finished. It's just perfect!

Thank you so much for rolling the dice and sending them. The sandbox is beautiful, the guys were just wonderful.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

Really, thank you from my son as well. He just loves it, it's so much better than I could have expected.

Warm regards,

Lisa Hupman

01/01/2013

Happy new gardening year.

Wishing everyone a creative and fruitful 2013.

12/10/2012

Sometimes you just have to "say" you can do something just because you know you CAN.
(even though you never did it before)

12/07/2012

DON'T BE JEALOUS

(you can have 5-Mile Farms OKRA PICKLES w/ your sandwich, too)
call 743-4245 or MSG to pick up
$6 -- great GIFT

12/03/2012

Don't panic -- most brassicas (kale, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, brussels, collards) and spinach, lettuces and root veggies are seasonally cold-hearty. It will take a pretty unique freeze event to really wipeout a garden. (But that's part of climate change, too, is lower lows even though they ...

11/23/2012

Thankful for the opportunity to help my neighbors connect to the fundamental reality of life -- responsibility for the organisms we eat.

11/05/2012

Two years ago on January 1, Moni and I moved to The Farm here on Burnet Road, and for most of 2011 we built the 2 acre infrastructure of 5-Mile Farms. If you've read the essay athttp://www.resolutiongardens.org/farm/or followed much of what I've shared on email or Facebook, you'll know that we inten...

10/24/2012

Fall Projects

09/02/2012

Lotsa video today! (with Dorsey Barger@Hausbar Farms)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfh5Zw7EM80