Makenzie comes to us from Tarleton State University her major is biomedical sciences with a minor in animal science. Makenzie will be here at Stiles farm until the end of August, so glad you on the farm
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Welcome Riley Eggemeyer to Stiles Farm Foundation
Small Grains Field Day 4-27-2021
Welcome to Stiles Farm Foundation
Kory “Red” Kiernan-Fall Intern Blog 4
This past week we replanted the spinach in the garden as well as applied organic insect spray to deal with an ant problem. Our cabbage was nearly wiped out but we think it can still recover. We have all the piping for the aquaponics made and running as well as a fully enclosed and ready chicken coop. All we need to do now is buy the fish and chickens and those 2 operations will be up and running. We may try and make those purchases this week while the kids are on Thanksgiving break. It’s finally started to cool off more here so it’s feeling really good outside every day. Which is good because there’s still lots of what to be planted and cows to be worked in the coming weeks
Kory “Red” Kiernan-Fall Intern
Tiger Pride Farm is working hard at Stiles Farm Foundation
I got to spend sometime out with the students from Tiger Pride Farm this past week they are working hard on the garden, from weeding by hand and hoeing the veggies are coming along and you can see them sprouting up, putting in drip line, cleaning out a room in the old fish house we will be turning into a chicken pen, and replacing water line with PVC, getting the tanks ready for the aqua phonics fish to come. Just a few pics from one day.
Way to go guys from Tiger Pride Farm!
Virginia Moerbe
Thrall Tiger Pride Farm is moving along by Kory “Red” Kiernan
Since the high school is now able to come out here a lot more often we’ve been putting a lot of effort into getting the farm project up and running. Every dirst half of the day we’re putting in irrigation and planting transplants/ direct seeding vegetables.
Our current transplants are golden acre cabbage with blooms fake spinach in the ground already. After we get the garden completed we can start work on the other aspects of the farm. 
The garden is up and running good. Every day we’re adding more and more irrigation and transplants still. We now have 5 rows of spinach planted and a couple of rows of golden acre cabbage and early jersey cabbage transplants in the ground. We think the spinach was too hot when we planted it so we will probably re plant it in the coming week. Broccoli transplants should be coming up this week as well so we can plant them.
We’ve also begun work on clearing out part of the fish house to make a chicken coop and making metal stands for the aquaponics system. Lots of people from town have been really helpful with the project as well. A local sign maker even offered to make us a sign for the produce shop when it comes time to harvest.
Tiger Pride Farm at Stiles Farm Foundation
Blog 3 Kory “Red” Kiernan Fall Farm Intern
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This past week I’ve been working on fixing fences to move cattle in the coming week or so. Dove hunting season is in full swing and we have several public hunters using the farm to hunt. I’ve placed several buckets around the hunting sites to gather up shotgun shells to prevent littering an its worked very well. We have clearance for the high schoolers to begin coming out to the farm in the next week so that’s exciting. We also got the old dodge running again so we have a spare farm truck to work with now. Last week I also got some experience disking some of the fields to plant cover crops for the winter at a later period. Cotton is still in the ground here and will continue to be until we can get a solid chunk of dry weather. Things are going well otherwise and I’m ready to begin work with the students.
Kory “Red” Kiernan – Fall Farm Intern
