Pruning – what is it? When you cut all the blooms off of the lavender plants, that’s harvesting. Pruning is something different. Pruning is necessary to keep the lavender plants in producing shape. A lavender plant doesn’t have to be pruned to live, but pruning is extremely beneficial. Lavender is a woody perennial, so as it grows, the old growth turns hard and woody. The new growth is green wood
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We have many different types of critters here….and they all leave footprints (or tracks!). Can you guess what they are?
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SHL gets to be part of the first ever Greer Farmers Market! The market is located in the parking lot of Greer Florist & Specialties at the corner of Main and Poinsett street in downtown Greer. The market is every Thursday until October 29th, 4-7pm. Here are some pictures of our booth!
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Newspaper ink that is! The Greer Citizen did a great article on us and the farm. I bought 20 papers. 🙂
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Sometimes it takes a village. Tim has been having back problems (just diagnosed as a herniated disk) and my family came on Friday and Saturday and we had good ole work days on the farm. We had previously had a bad storm and Tim and I had cut and raked large amounts of tree branches into piles. My sister and her kids helped us carry all the branches to a
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