Longevity Farms

03/08/2024

Making Doug’s famous farm fresh salsa 😋
It’s been a wonderful 2024 growing season!
The weather has been perfect. The
temperatures are great and we have been getting the right amount of rain about all season.

Asparagus season was delicious. April-June
Blueberries were great. June
Tomatoes and pears are the best. July- September
When the heirloom apples are ready, I’ll be making my Great Grandma Bowdre’s apple sauce recipe. She taught me when I was little. I’ll make some with my grandkids 💕

We made several deliveries of our and Spoon Creek’s heirlooms tomatoes to the French Market and Cafe’ Provence this season.

10/07/2024

Wow!

Alabama native Charles Wilber has set world records for both the highest number of tomatoes per plant and the tallest tomato plant.

I have never seen tomatoes grow this tall!

Photo: Barbara Pleasant

15/03/2024

14/03/2024

2024 Growing season started YUM!

25/12/2023

Great song by my good friend and brother in Christ Paul Clark
It pretty much says all you need to know about what we need to do in these times

SHARPEN THE AXE,” A Compelling new release by Paul ClarkAt the peak of the Jesus Movement in the mid-70’s, I was awestruck by the number of people leaving th...

02/09/2023

We finished our tomato season for 2023! It was a delicious season for The French Market and Café Provence.
And a big thank you to my brother Curtis for making some deliveries to the Lawrence farm food pantry 😊

23/07/2023

Our peach trees and fruit areUnbelievable. The Japanese beetles did not decimate the crop.
We had a really good helper to help pick today 😊
They are so juicy and delicious!!!

08/05/2023

Meet Herman, the latest addition to the farm

02/05/2023

Head on over to the French Market or Café Provence in Prairie Village, Kansas for 
Fresh from Longevity farm Asparagus and eggs!

25/12/2022

Returntonow.net
Don’t miss this lesson… Why should we pay cash everywhere with banknotes instead of a card?

- I have a $50 banknote in my pocket. Going to a restaurant and paying for dinner with it. The restaurant owner then uses the note to pay for the laundry. The laundry owner then uses the note to pay the barber. The barber will then use the note for shopping. After an unlimited number of payments, it will still remain a $50, which has fulfilled its purpose to everyone who used it for payment and the bank has jumped dry from every cash payment transaction made.
But if I come to a restaurant and pay with digital Card, bank fees for my payment transaction charged to the seller are 3% so around $1.50 and so the fee $1.50 for each further payment transaction for restaurant owner or payments of the owner of the laundry shop, the barber etc.. Therefore, after 30 transactions, the initial $50 will remain only $5 and the remaining $45 became the property of the bank thanks to all digital transactions and fees.

Pay with cash. I personally need to do better at this.

25/12/2022

On the day of the celebration of the birth of our Savior. I wish love, health, happiness and salvation for all.
✝️ MERRY CHRISTMAS ✝️

24/10/2022

Last of this year's tomatoes , time to make SALSA 🍅🫑🌶️

29/07/2022

The tomatoes are very late producing this season. Cafe’ Provance & The French Market are patiently waiting for us to deliver our heirloom tomatoes. The cool spring weather slowed the pollination of the tomatoes. Hopefully, there are enough flowers to pollinate for a late harvest. I weeded and thinned the plants to create good ventilation today. I hope we have a great fall harvest at least. We are going to make spicy tomato juice & salsa.

21/07/2022

July it’s hot! Weeding and adding string to the tomatoes today. Doug was checking on the bees last week.  Rain is in the forecast for Monday, so I’m crossing my fingers 🤞✌️🙏

06/06/2022

We started with two new beehives this year, then Doug brought home a swarm of bees in a cardboard box he caught in a tree in Olathe Kansas.

Now we have three hives.

We recently checked the three hives and they are doing fantastic.
Each hive is full of new brood,honey, pollen.

06/06/2022

We planted about 250 heirlooms tomato plants and several varieties of squash ( pumpkins). Our potatoes are popping and the blueberries and blackberries are blooming!😀 We will be selling our produce to the restaurants this year again. And donating to Harvesters food bank.

01/05/2022

We are working in the blueberry, raspberry and blackberry garden today removing the self seeding native plants (AKA-weeds😳) We also started to hill-up the potato plants. 😀

27/04/2022

We installed two new bee packages this weekend.

After three days I released the
first Queen bee into hive number one and all went well.
Unfortunately, when I was trying to release the second Queen into hive number two, she flew up into the wind and may have been lost. I will need to wait a few days to reopen the hive and look to see if she made her way back into the hive. If not, we will need to re-queen the second hive. UGH😳

06/04/2022

St. Patrick’s Day! Planting blue heirloom potatoes 💙We set out our bee swarm traps. We hope the bees decide they want to live here. We will provide them a warm and comfy hive to move into😊🐝🐝🐝

06/04/2022

Planting Heirloom Tomatoes in the greenhouse today for The French Market, Patrick Quillec ,and Café Provence!! It’s so amazing that these tiny seeds will become large delicious heirloom tomatoes by the end of July 🤞! Yum!

25/09/2021

Bluejacket Crossing Vineyard and Winery 2021

25/09/2021

Doug & I volunteered to help harvest grapes at Bluejacket Crossing Vineyard & Winery in Eudora Kansas today.
This is such a wonderful award-winning winery and an amazing family running the business.

23/08/2021

Our daily crop. These heirlooms are beautiful

29/07/2021

On the positive side, we have managed to harvest some of the grapes that have not been damaged by the Japanese beetles. And our heirloom tomatoes are beginning to ripen. We will hopefully make our first delivery to Cafe’ Provence next week.

29/07/2021

We have struggled this year combating the Japanese beetles. They are destructive, the beetles skeletonized the leaves of the plants and they eat the fruit. Japanese beetles also damage plant roots during their Lava stage before they emerge as adult Beetles. 😩

13/07/2021

Little Luna helping with the blueberries 🥰

12/07/2021

Our little helpers cleaning the blueberries 🥰Maryann and Kinsley

12/07/2021

Picking blueberries and blackberries to take the restaurants and We’re going to make some jam and smoothies too. Yummy!

25/03/2021

Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds