Birdsong Hollow Farm

Welcome to Birdsong Hollow Farm!

We are growing beautiful, healthful, delicious vegetables in the hills of Cannon County, in the heart of Middle Tennessee. The nearest towns are Gassaway, Auburntown, Liberty and Woodbury, but it would be a long walk to any of them!

Fortunately, you don’t have to come to our farm to get great food. During the growing season (late April-October), we’ll be at the Woodbury Farmer’s Market (at the Higgins Flea Market on Hwy. 70-S) on Saturday mornings. If you need produce mid-week, give us a call and we’ll see how we can help.

If you like fresh, local, interesting vegetables, consider buying a subscription to our garden, also known as a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) share. Each subscriber pays in advance for a weekly given amount of whatever fresh produce is ready. In the early spring, that’s lots of tender lettuce, spinach, green onions, broccoli, carrots and some summer squash. Later, more squash, basils, parsley, green beans, edamame, cucumbers, potatoes and peppers are ready, and tomatoes move into the starring role in late June. Each full share receives a half-bushel each week, and half-shares get about half of that.

Watch for details on the larger, more varied subscription to be available starting in March for the 2008 growing season.

At Birdsong Hollow Farm, our goal is to provide the freshest, most health-producing and delicious vegetables possible. We are a small family operation in northeastern Cannon County, Tennessee, and we are committed to using sustainable practices. That means that we:

· use organic, natural methods of pest and weed control,

· build our soil’s fertility with organic materials,

· encourage wildlife to live all around our gardens,

· water our crops with rainwater and springwater,

· seek out and grow many old heirloom varieties of seeds, thus helping preserve biological diversity,

· buy seed only from suppliers who have signed the Safe Seed Pledge (non-GMO),

· grow unusual, specialty greens that are hard to find locally, and

· produce food for our local area, which promotes a secure food supply.

As we grow and develop our farm, we intend to use solar, wind, and vegetable oil as fuels. We are learning all the time, always looking for better ways to fit into the natural scheme of life- and have a wonderful time doing so!

2007 was our first year of gardening in Middle Tennessee, so we grew small quantities of many different varieties, experimenting to see what grows well on our farm. This included:

	25 varieties of tomatoes- large, medium, small, and tiny; red, yellow, orange, green, pink, white and striped; some for canning and some for fresh eating
	7 kinds of basils
	2 kinds of eggplant
	14 kinds of sweet peppers
	2 hot pepper varieties
	4 kinds of bunching onions
	5 cucumber varieties
	4 types of summer squash
	10 edible flower species
	2 kinds of pole beans
	Edamame (green soybeans)
	About 30 different salad greens (leaf lettuces, romaines, summer crisp, arugula, kale, 2 hot-weather spinach-types, etc.)
	At least 5 varieties of pak choi, tatsoi, and several other Asian greens
	Green and purple tomatillos
	Several unusual herbs (papalo, saltwort, borage, and others)
	Collards
	4 kinds of watermelons- red, orange, and yellow, mostly small
	5 kinds of radishes in a wide range of colors
	Lots of sunflowers and zinnias (to feed the soul)
	And a few other things that just sound interesting (Giant Cape Gooseberries and Mexican Sour Gherkins, for example)

We will plant many of these varieties again in the spring of 2008, and we will add several others. The garden will be larger next year, too. If you have a special favorite, we’d like to know about it so we can consider growing it!


		178 Birdsong Trail Woodbury, TN 37190 (615) 563-8132	October 2007 update Water for Every Farm Using Permaculture Join us for a weekend workshop Nov. 10 and 11, 2007 In Cannon County, Tennessee. For more information and to register use our events link.