Tiny Farm Duluth

21/04/2026

It’s Tuesday top-up day! All varieties are being delivered to ensure they don’t run out of top-shelf stock, as happened last week. The last of the snow is slipping into the earth as I carry each load to the walk-in cooler. Happy spring!
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23/03/2026

It’s the annual blessing of the sunflowers. With bright sunshine and being a bit north of 40 degrees, today’s the day even though these just came out of germination two days ago. I’m just gonna sit here for a good long while as they sunbathe to make sure no birds and squirrels show up at the buffet. Plus, it’s fun to watch them grow.
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19/01/2026

Encapsulated sunshine ☀️.
Thanks for a lovely photo.
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12/01/2026

Change is afoot!
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19/11/2025

Veggies make you strong!
and are all fully stocked for Food’s superbowl week ahead , with further restocks coming tomorrow and next Tuesday as well.
I was stoked to deliver this painting and others to for my wife, , while on the latest delivery run. Symbiosis at its best.

01/11/2025

https://eddygilmore.com/2025/11/01/fantasia/

In a perfect world, I might have hiked to Canada on the Superior Hiking Trail by now. Distractions are legion. Spring and Summer were devoted to staining this fence and virtually every piece of bar…

03/10/2025

Do the work with an attitude of joy, or don’t do it at all. This challenge is fascinating for menial work as well as dealing with the fallout of death. It’s not just a positive attitude. Anyhow, music helps. Find the playlist by searching lawyers, guns, and money on Spotify.

01/04/2025

Hanging out with my buddy on this harvest’s eve. He’s the reigning champion in the IPA category at the Minnesota state fair. Blue ribbon! And the current batch, which we sampled beside the St. Louis River, is heading to Nationals. Anyhow, we completed an exquisite circle in our adventures today, concluding with another $600 load of soil mix over in Superior, WI, today, coming within about 50 pounds of maxing out my van’s payload capacity. Great day, and no worries, I’ll be alive and present for tomorrow’s midweek top-up harvest for the restaurants and grocers. I love mixing life with work, and it feels great to have about 90% of the dirt I’ll need for the year ready in the barn.
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22/02/2025

I wasn’t looking forward to planting these three cilantro trays for , but then I realized it was warm enough to do the sowing outside, and that made everything wonderful. Every task must be loved to be done properly.
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18/02/2025

I managed to haul in a pallet of seed today, and now have 1500 pounds of beautiful, high-performing organic seed in my storage room that happily doubles as a beer fridge when the weather outside becomes arctic.
Gathering the raw materials this time of year is beyond satisfying. I’ve loaded up on the first of four $500 van loads already, with plans for more, securing the lowest possible wholesale prices before any tariffs against Canadian imports go in effect (where much of this comes from). This keeps prices low for you, and makes me immensely happy.
That bale of dirt sits in front of the door, because it’s gotta thaw out for a couple days before I can sift it for use. Everything is a bit more challenging in sun-zero temps, but we simply slow down and make sure to take care of the essentials, one basic task at a time.
And all these raw materials represent future income, producing gratitude every time I cast an eye of appreciation on them. It felt impossible to locate some of these for a while, so this is really great.

09/01/2025

I finished this book about Ulysses Grant recently. I’ve been a fan of his since receiving the occasional $50 bill at the farmers market, and finally finished this definitive tome after probably 5 years of dipping in and out (roughly the length of the civil war). I believe the author must be America’s greatest living popular historian. Repeatedly, while digesting this page-turner, I found myself grateful for Ulysses’ existence. The U.S. probably would not exist in its current form without the indomitable persistence of U.S. Grant. If current events and anxieties have you tied into knots, I urge you to read history. As for this book, it’s about a regular guy like you or me who was consistently overlooked and passed over. He didn’t have the right pedigree, didn’t preen around with feathers in his cap, and wasn’t physically overbearing or given to amplifying his accomplishments or intelligence. I probably received $1,976 of enjoyment from this book that obviously required years of devotion to produce. Thanks ! Your life and work are valuable to so many regular Americans who will never have opportunity to thank you. I can hardly believe you have another work arriving this spring!
Turning to that little book beside Grant, it’s a riveting read by Julia Grant-Cantacuzene, U.S. Grant’s granddaughter who was born in the White House in 1876 and had vivid memories of her August grandfather, and other folks like Queen Victoria, Mark Twain, Johann Strauss, Tsar Nicholas II, and more! She married a Russian prince who was a descendant of a Byzantine emperor and fled that nation after the Bolshevik revolution with jewels stitched inside her clothing. Julia died in 1975, just 5 months before I was born. Isn’t that krazee????
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