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Design a Flourishing life—one bloom, one barn, one bite at a time. The Country Living Connoisseur newsletter delivers farm-fresh inspiration, vintage charm, and real talk from Sweet BombDiggity Farms, straight to your inbox every other week.
From Lane & Jules at Sweet BombDiggity Farms Pull Up a Chair The part that comes after the beginning Every year when the basil starts to flower, I pinch the flowers off so the plant keeps making leaves. And every year, what I pinched went straight into the compost. This year I kept them, and they turned into two jars of vinegar. Back in the spring, we planted potatoes in two wire towers. This fall, those two towers gave us more than 20 pounds of potatoes. Neither one happened on the first...
From Lane & Jules at Sweet BombDiggity Farms Pull Up a Chair 25 years, and we're still designing it On September 22, 2001, Lane and I got married in our backyard, just 11 days after 9/11. The whole country was hurting, grieving, and afraid. There was something even more special about having the people we loved most right there with us. We could see them, hold them, and comfort each other. We just marked 25 years, and the people are still what matters most. People sometimes ask how we ended up...
From Lane & Jules at Sweet BombDiggity Farms Pull Up a Chair What looks finished usually isn't This time of year, the Black-Eyed Susans along the front of our Knoxville house don't look like much. The gold petals are gone, and what's left are dark, dry little heads on brown stems. Most people would cut them down and call the season over. But every one of those heads is full of seed. The part that looks finished is the part that makes next summer possible. Out at the farm, there was a stretch...