by katie.katiemcmullen@gmail.com | May 7, 2024 | Farm Transformation, Pollinator Meadow
Last fall, I brought home these bees to the farm. Bees fascinate me. There may be as many as 60,000 individual bees in this colony. All of them working together to take care of the whole group. While they do that, they hold the whole world’s food web together,...
by katie.katiemcmullen@gmail.com | Apr 26, 2024 | What's Blooming Under The Sycamore Tree
It’s late April and the weatherman says we had our last frost last of the year last night. Hooray! So what’s blooming at Sycamore Tree Farm Flower today? Let’s take a look. Tulips! They started poking their heads out a few weeks ago. So beautiful!...
by katie.katiemcmullen@gmail.com | Apr 25, 2024 | Farm Transformation
For at least a decade, the fields around my house here in Northern Indiana have been conventionally farmed. This means it’s a big, uninterrupted piece of land growing corn for two or three years followed by a year of soy beans followed by more corn. It’s a...