Hi Robert….just wanted to fill you in on the farm.  Things are going well…couldn’t do it without Dad, who just turned 85. He brush-hogged for me this week.
A young man with PD drove over from Knoxville area and helped in the garden last Tuesday and then came to our support group meeting. He was a real encouragement to me. He is the only person I’ve met with PD that excercizes like I do. He rides long distances on his bicycle, sometimes with his airforce buddies. He is in great shape and I would never guess that he had PD. It helped me alot to know that people out there do care about what I am trying to do on the farm. Plus he helped me make a long raised bed to hoop frame & cover for winter favas. I think we might be able to grow them year round here if they have a cover.
Still picking green beans, greens , beets, carrots, tomatoes and hopefully corn on Saturday. God is Good. Have several small batches of tincture made, and saw my first couple of fall fava beans on the plants yesterday.
Blessings to all
Aunt Bean
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Why Not Grow Your Own Fava Beans?
Well, dad is doing ok, but taking it easy the last few days. This morning I finished “banking or hilling” the rows of fava beans and found some of them are starting to make tops already, the part I use for medicine. It is always exciting to start seeing the tops form.
I hope more people will start growing their own favas to replace l-dopa. Especiallly people who have not yet started on pharmaceuticals. Always get a G6pd blood test first and make sure you are not taking MAOI meds.
The farm is looking good. The chickens are happy. LIFE IS GOOD.
Blessings from Aunt Bean
Fall Planting of Fava Beans
Latest report on the farm: Aug 2nd…a few of the fall planting of favas are starting to put on blooms. The chickens are doing well and we are getting 2 eggs a day. The local feed store finally got in barley for me…I like to use barley for a cover crop in the winter.
Dad had trouble with the tractor this week. He finally got it started and brush hogged the fields, plowed some for me and then the tractor quit again. He is busy trying to figure out why it’s not starting again. Always something to do, we don’t get bored.
I have started putting down cardboard boxes (broken down of course) in the pathways and laying cut grass on top of them. I’ve dug the grass out so many times and it comes back so quick…hard to get anything else done. Soil is getting dry again and we are hoping for rain again this weekend. Started harvesting a few cushaw pumpkins…they make the best pies!
Blessings to all.