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Farm Happenings at Jenny Jack Farm
Farm Happenings for June 19, 2020
The first 1000 of the two thousand sweet potato plants we grow are in. Next week we hope to get the second round planted. Sweet potatoes are one of our favorites to grow, eat and harvest! They're relatively low maintenance up until the harvest, which is super time consuming and heavy work. They are1 read more »
Farm Happenings for June 12, 2020
Our garlic crop is harvested and hanging which is a huge project! Over 2500 bulbs are pulled from the ground, stacked on a trailer and brought inside to be tied up in bundles and hung on the rafters of our tractor barn. It takes a couple of weeks of warm dry conditions for the garlic to cure proper1 read more »
Farm Happenings for June 5, 2020
They're later than usual, we guess due to colder than normal temps we've had this spring, but tomatoes are coming next week! Blueberries are here this week though, hurray! read more »
Farm Happenings for May 29th
This has been the nicest May weather we can remember in recent years! I can't believe we made it to the end of the month with very few hot days. This time last year I (Jenny) got dehydrated and had to make a trip to the emergency room after a CSA delivery because it had been in the 90s already for1 read more »
Farm Happenings for May 22, 2020
What a good productive day we had last Friday! While I was in Atlanta finding out that we're having a boy in September, Chris and the crew got strawberries harvested, another succession of squash beds prepared, sunflowers seeded, pak choi planted, and shade cloth on one of the tomato tunnels. It ge1 read more »
Farm Happenings for May 15, 2020
Squash is so close to being ready..... should be here next week and cucumbers and tomatoes on their way in coming weeks too! The cold weather last week slowed the summer crops but at least we didn't have killing frost like so many other farms around the country. A friend working at a farm in Kentuc1 read more »
Farm Happenings for May 8, 2020
Last year was a hard lesson in trying to grow as many strawberries as we can sell. We planted a lot and the harvest was never ending, which had everyone dreading the harvest days. Because so much time was spent harvesting, we got behind on other farm tasks like tomato planting. We learned that a di1 read more »
Farm Happenings for May 4, 2020
These blooms are future tomatoes! Cherry tomatoes will be ready in about a month, with the larger red slicers right behind them. Blueberries are looking good too and will be ready about that time as well. read more »
Farm Happenings for April 24, 2020
We're in the thick of full on farm work now: harvesting, packing orders, delivering plus continuing our summer plantings like peppers, squash, tomatoes, and lettuce in addition to all the weeding, trellising, grass cutting, weedeating...... the never ending maintenance of it all. Although the1 read more »
About the farm
The farm is located one hour south-west of Atlanta in beautiful Pine Mountain, Georgia. Jenny and Chris Jackson, along with several farm hands, grow a generous variety of fruits, vegetables, herbs, and flowers on 3 acres. In order to protect the life of our soil, as well as the health of our customers, we use no chemical fertilizers or pesticides to grow our produce. We farm to provide meaningful work for ourselves and to provide our customers with quality, Certified Naturally Grown food.
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