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09/07/2026

One of the easiest ways to waste your fall planting window is starting the right crop the wrong way.

Today we’re planting several different crops, but they’re not all being treated the same.

Broccoli is getting transplanted.

Radishes, beets and turnips are being direct-seeded.

Parsley and dill are going straight into the ground too.

Fall makes establishment especially important because every week brings shorter days and cooler temperatures.

With broccoli, I want a strong transplant already established when it hits the bed.

With root crops like radishes, beets and turnips, I want the root developing right where it’s going to finish.

And parsley?

Parsley apparently believes germination should be a character-building exercise. 😂

The important question isn’t only:

What can I plant?

It’s also:

How should I plant it?

Those are two different decisions and getting both of them right gives the crop a much better start.

Now we’ve got beds to fill.

09/07/2026

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09/05/2026

A seed packet that says 45 days to maturity does not automatically mean you can plant it 45 days before your first frost and expect a harvest.

That’s one of the biggest mistakes people make with fall gardens.

Why?

Because a 45-day crop growing in May is not necessarily going to behave like that same crop growing in October.

Days are getting shorter.

Temperatures are getting cooler.

Growth starts slowing down.

And different crops tolerate cold very differently.

So instead of only asking:

“How many days until frost?”

Ask:

* What does this crop tolerate?
* How long will it realistically take under fall conditions?
* How much growth can I get on the plant before the days get really short and cold?

The goal is to get as much of the plant established as possible while growing conditions are still decent, then use the colder part of the season to maintain, protect and harvest it.

The seed packet gives you a starting point.

It does not know what October in your backyard is going to look like.

Zone7b

09/05/2026

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09/05/2026

If your everbearing strawberries basically quit producing during the summer heat, don’t give up on them yet.

They may not be done.

Everbearing and in many cases day-neutral strawberries can produce over a much longer season than June-bearing types, but hot summer conditions can slow production way down.

So as temperatures start coming back down, this is a good time to go check the bed.

I’m looking at three things right now:

* weeds
* soil moisture
* runners

Runners are great if your goal is to multiply your strawberry patch.

But if your goal is fruit production, you need to decide whether you really want the plant spending energy making all those new plants.

So here’s the question:

Are you trying to grow more strawberry plants, or are you trying to grow more strawberries?

Those aren’t always the same management decision.

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09/05/2026

One day, I want this farm to be able to feed us in almost every direction we look.

Not just vegetables.

Not just chickens.

Fruit. Herbs. Mushrooms. Eggs. Meat. Food we can preserve and can. Compost that grows the next crop. Trees that eventually produce food. Lumber from this property turned into something useful.

That’s the farm I’m trying to build.

And the funny thing is, most days don’t look especially dramatic.

Today I weeded strawberries, turned compost, took care of the chickens, worked around the farm, and filmed another PetraTools video.

None of those things alone are some massive accomplishment.

But stack enough of those days together over enough years, and eventually you’ve built something pretty incredible.

And I don’t just want to build it.

I want to document how we built it.

The successes, failures, costs, experiments, research, systems, and how all the different pieces eventually fit together.

That’s really what Farm School and the first Naturally Green Farm Guides are starting to become for me: the beginning of documenting this farm while we’re actually building it.

I have no idea how big that becomes one day.

But I know I want to build it.

And one more thing…

Be here Sunday.

I’ve got a freaking awesome giveaway to announce and I am ridiculously excited about this one. 👀🌱

09/04/2026

I’m starting to realize I’m building two things here.

There’s the physical farm the vegetables, animals, mushrooms, soil, infrastructure and systems that I hope become more productive and beautiful every year.

But there’s something else being built alongside it.

Since moving here, I’ve documented an unbelievable amount of the process: what worked, what failed, what things cost, why I made certain decisions, what I changed my mind about, and what I’ve learned along the way.

Yesterday we released the first Naturally Green Farm Guide and opened Farm School to founding members.

What excites me most isn’t simply selling guides or starting a membership.

It’s thinking about what all of this could become 10 years from now.

A record of what it actually looked like to build Naturally Green not a polished version where everything magically worked, but the decisions, experiments, numbers, failures, changes and hopefully a whole lot of things that worked too.

There’s the farm you can physically walk around and see.

And then there’s all the knowledge that comes from building it.

I don’t want to lose that second part.

Anyway, enough thinking for one morning. I’ve got coffee to drink and apparently a farm to build. 😂🌱

09/04/2026

This is what I mean when I say founding member.

You’re not joining Naturally Green Farm School after it’s already been built.

You’re joining at the beginning.

I want to build a place around everything that goes into this farm vegetables, fruit, mushrooms, poultry, compost, soil building, food preservation, milling lumber, closed-loop systems, farm economics, and everything else we keep learning along the way.

But I don’t want it to become a library of random farming opinions.

I want real experience from this farm.

I want the science behind why something works.

I want Extension guidance and research.

I want comparisons and numbers.

And when something fails, I want to document that too.

My hope is that years from now, Farm School becomes a serious library of guides, tools, videos, experiments, reference material, and knowledge built while we were actually growing Naturally Green.

The Fall & Winter Planting Guide is the first guide.

It definitely won’t be the last.

Naturally Green Farm School is open now to the first 20 founding members.

We’re building this one from ground zero.

09/03/2026

Think your garden is done for the year? If you’re in East Tennessee or a similar Zone 7b climate, there’s still food to grow.

The first Naturally Green Farm Guide is officially live.

Our Fall & Winter Planting Guide was built around what I’ve learned growing food here in East Tennessee and verified against University of Tennessee Extension guidance. It covers planting windows, frost dates, root crops, greens, brassicas, succession planting, garlic, cold protection, and includes a worksheet to help you plan your own garden.

The guide is $15 and available at NaturallyGreenFarm.com.

This is only the beginning. Every guide sold helps me keep building better educational resources around the things we’re actually doing here on the farm vegetables, chickens, mushrooms, compost, soil building, farm systems, and everything else we learn along the way.

Naturally Green Farm School is also officially open to our first 20 founding members. Farm Guides are included with membership, and our first live Q&A is next Tuesday at 6 PM Eastern. If you can’t make it live, it’ll be recorded for members.

The first Farm Guide is live. Farm School is open. We’re just getting started. 🌱

09/03/2026

I’ve learned an unbelievable amount about farming by actually farming.

Growing vegetables. Raising chickens. Growing mushrooms. Making compost. Screwing things up and trying again.

That practical experience has taught me a lot about what works and what doesn’t.

But I’ve realized I want to take that knowledge deeper.

I don’t just want to know that compost changes the way my soil behaves. I want to better understand what’s happening to soil structure.

I don’t just want to know that spacing changes the way a crop grows. I want to understand the relationships between plant density, airflow, competition, and yield.

And with poultry, I want to better understand the nutrition, genetics, feed conversion, and economics behind the differences I already see between breeds and production systems.

I don’t have much time to sit down and read textbooks right now.

But I have a LOT of time where I can listen while I work.

So I’m turning some of those hours into an education — podcasts, university lectures, researchers, growers, and whatever else helps me understand the work more deeply.

And I think I’m going to start sharing some of that here.

Not as “I’m the expert and I know everything.”

More like:

Here’s something I thought I understood.
Here’s what I learned.
Here’s how it changes what I’m doing on the farm.

Knowing how to grow something and understanding why it grows that way are two different levels of knowledge.

I want both.

And apparently, we’re starting with soil.

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