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Feathers & Fruit

Freelance journalist & Farmer specializing in egg layers & in fruit- blueberries, blackberries & figs

07/07/2025

Look at my jugs! 🫐
Morning hours spent pickin' & that's 6lbs. rightchere!💪

hot as balls summer edition brought to you by .harmonyweddings who gifted me several of these great granny gowns.

It's days like these that make getting dressed damn near impossible! Happy Monday & may your pants be forever loose at the waistband 👖💧💙

07/05/2025

Self promotion is hard, especially when you're in thick of peak season. I have been trying to post mah goods last week, leading up to me vending at the but alas, I have not made a peep for a week.

Welp, Wednesday came & went along with all the other days. So I was like I'll do what comes easy & promote others! I'll showcase all the locally grown or ethically sourced yummies I picked up at this past market. Even that attempt went awry.

So many unsaved drafts of this post. Tagging eryone, cropping pics, starting of these words over & over again only to be...
🐿 squirrel! Distracted by animals, crops, friends, loved ones, life-- all things that should take priority over social media crap.

But here on , as I settle in after a long week, I'm happy to say, "scroll to drool over these deliciously beautiful creations!" Working in the heat for weeks, I was determined to buy every cold beverage available!
🤤

Thanks to:
🧃 for the perky Mystic Melon & earthy Rare & Bright that rejuvenated me in the midday heat!

🥃 perfect Old Fashioned mix allowing me to just combine liquor & their liquid for a quick cocktail complementing a long dip in the pool.

🧋 cold brew growlette which came just in time as our coffee maker broke 😢

🍷 providing a perfectly balanced Beet Lemongrass kombucha that is helping ween me off toxic energy drinks.

Do you have a favorite summertime sipper?🍹

🧦Oh & the last pic was when I was feeling cute on market day, rocking a bathing suit under my functional fashionable shorteralls that matched my new knee high socks from 🛼

06/26/2025

While picking at dusk yesterday, I noticed that the sunset hues matched the unripe blueberries & it made my hatefulness of the heatwave melt away.

Another view that perked me right up was looking west thru the branches & having a picturesque clear shot of the Bird Barn.

As we've tried to keep the flock working the western land, this is as far east as they've been in quite some time.

Even with strategically moving the coop six paddocks down & one over, without a fence the free range hens kept working the same area of field so we had to force them to give it a rest.
Therefore East bound & down we went! *Fun fact: I was an extra on "East Bound & Down" Season 3, Episode 3.

As the days start getting shorter, the next move will be taking them North & West to continue ammending the fallow land we inherited.

So in my peaceful evening harvest, I realized it is most likely that this photo op might never happen again or at least not happen for a long, long time.

I took that opportunity to revel in how far they've come, how far I've come & how much my view of our land has changed with or without the help of excavation.

06/21/2025

Ya best believe Imma find a farmer's market wherever I travel & this trip to Durham, NC was no exception!

The spectactular had great parking, vendors & vibes. I of course had to be wrangled to leave by my hostess, former staffer Zoe, but not til I grabbed the special Double Olive Loaf from
(🍞 Niedlovs please bring back the Kalamata Olive 🥹).

🐶 daikons & dog treats
🥬the coolest cone cabbage & kohlrabi from
🍻 then washing it all down with berry beautiful brews from
🍉 To top it all off the NC Watermelon Queen was there!

As if the day couldn't get any better, I got to frolic in & cackle about blueberries, blackberries & strawberries at the stunning

💚 I could go on but quality time with quality friends & food awaits! Support local farms no matter where you go!!
Check out the last pic for my

06/18/2025

They're baaaaaaack...

Would anyone be interested in blueberry tutorial videos? Covering planting, pruning & pests.

06/16/2025

Woof, what a weekend!

😻 Found my peace & peets on Friday the 13th by hosting Black Cat Kitten Yoga with where we raised $600 & a wagon of supplies! I live for stuff like this & was elated to supply a Cat-Cute-erie with feathers, treats & toys as well as a hooman charcuterie for guests.

🛼 Then got my workout on wheels in the marvelous mountains of Bristol, TN playing against the lovely who we lost against but had winning attitudes & I got MVP Blocker!
📸: Thanks for the great pics!

I'm biased but we did win the after party by busting out a good ol' grassy knoll human pyramid & getting rowdy with twerk rodeo. To top it all off, the after party was just over the state line in Bristol, VA at an inspirational orchard/brewery which means maybe I can claim my tab for agrotourism R&D! 🤑

A long weekend full of growing community off the farm is going to keep me on cloud niner (my number is 9er :) all week, even through all the forecasted rain.

Did you visit any locally owned places or farms this weekend? Tag em below 💚

06/07/2025

Babs The Chicken helped us finalize house plans today!

We originally chose a Barndominium to be slapped up but then after the house demo was done, we changed our minds. We're Libras, we tend to be indecisive.

He wanted a two story colonial brick. He actually pointed one out on our first date twelve years ago, so I know it's what he has always wanted. I am totally fine with that as long as...

My non-negotiables?
🧺The laundry room has to be immediately outside the master bedroom. Life is too short to navigate hallways with a laundry basket.
🍽 A commercial dishwasher & no cabinets. I am not spending my days wiping down sticky cabinets. Yes, we will have storage in the kitchen but it will look more like hutches & wood shelves (made from trees on our property).
🏡 A porch made for entertaining. He & I are both social Sallys so having room for parties & people is a must.

❔️What would you have to have in your dream home?

06/03/2025

Look at the natural, brightbeautiful color of this Prickly Pear Curd 👀

Just four ingredients, one of em being our eggs, which makes it taste even better! This refreshing gorgeousness is ready for tomorrow's First Wednesday, which will have guest vendors including moi!

Pick up this cucumber-melon-esque creation that is like nothing you've ever tasted. It's colorful & sweet, simple yet complex -- just like me 🙃

It's also National Egg day so what better way to celebrate than featuring all the great options we have when serving up this high protein, farm fresh butt nugget!

🥚 I have several curd flavors (Lemon, Strawberry & Prickly Pear; some available in Dairy Free).
🥒 I have five flavors of pickled eggs (OG, Old Bay Leaf, Mustard Tumeric, Srira-cha-cha-cha, & SoyJoy).
🍳 Plus just good ol' unwashed, unrefrigerated much loved eggies available by the half dozen, dozen, 18ct & flat (2.5 dozen).

Preorder on our online store to pick uo tomorrow at Main St from 4-6p.

05/31/2025

Put the 🥔 tater in spectator a week from today at the third annual Farm Olympics happening just up the road from us.

You don't have to participate in the hay bale toss, water trough relay, or our sponsored event-- the fence race. You can simply support by showing up & enjoying a farm to table spread, judge a pie contest, & bid on auction items included my pictured Summertime Charcuterie Kit.

This Summertime Charcuterie Kit (with an emphasis on the char) is perfect for any grilling adventure. Complete with wooden bbq tools, make your picnic a party with homemade, farm grown goodies like:
🧅 Pickled () Onions
🍅 Tomatoes & Okra
🍑 Peach BBQ mop
🫑 Peach salsa
🧂Rosegold Salt (great for roasting veggies or used as a meat rub)
🍋 Lemon Marmalade
🍓 Strawberry Sangria Jam
🥚 Mustard ( ) Turmeric Pickled Eggs that taste like deviled eggs
🍏 Sugarfree Spiced Apples (dump em right into a pie crust or atop ice cream)

🧀 Just add your cheeses, meats & breads to complete the meal! Some of these items will be available to sample at the Farm Olympics picnic so be sure to get a taste then get a bid in & save room for pie!

💚 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/farm-olympics-2025-tickets-1332195946939?discount=earlybird&fbclid=PAQ0xDSwKodlxleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABpx--PnPy8JXyM4HxLc6r6Dv7CwxpPVNjPkDMKoyCUmYsdixy9ueuJU8OeEW1_aem_Z4jVVwRnAfrpz6ka_LFAnw

05/28/2025

Cause of the house demo, I swore I wouldn't plant anything this year so here are things I didn't plant that of course are thriving.

🍐Prickly Pear Cactus
🦋Butterfly W**d
🌸Yarrow
🪻Hydrangea
🌼Blackberry
💮Elderberry
🌻Black Eyed Susan (MD state flower)
🌿Yucca (found out edible pedals)

Whatcha looking forward to growing this year?

05/17/2025

Three weeks from today is the 3rd annual Farm Olympics happening just up the road from our farm on Sat, June 7th 1:30-8p.

We are honored to be amongst the many reputable, community-focused sponsors like & to help make this a fun day where everyone wins! 🏅 (Not everyone gets a medal cause it's not like that but helping local farms should make anyone feel like an mvp 🏆).

Get & compete in games like egg or hay bale toss. I'm sponsoring my most beloved love-hate farm chore, the mobile fence race. Then enjoy live music & a locally sourced picnic including charcuterie with our pal & our pickled fixins.

If agility ain't a piece of cake for you, enter the dessert pie judging contest by making one or eating em.

There's also a silent auction with a slew of delicious items including one of our Boozy Brunch Baskets & a BBQ Basket (perfect gifts for Father's Day).

Ticket link in bio with more info & they're running an early bird special price so snag em soon!

Address

9320 Dallas Hollow Road
Soddy-Daisy, TN
37379

Telephone

(843) 503-3836

Website

http://www.feathersandfruit.com/

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We bought the farm (haha) in April 2015 with a somewhat grandeur idea of what we were going to do with it since it wasn’t actually a farm to start with. We found the 18 acre property on Craigslist and it was as is. It came with a hot tub and pool (yes please) as well as 6 fully producing blueberry bushes, 30x30 shop with a lift and a dilapidated greenhouse.

I love digging in the dirt and he loves living off the land so it took no time for us to acquire 30 egg laying Barred Rock hens and a garden full of carrots, corn and wildflowers. The goats were kind of a happy accident as McKamey Animal Center found Billy Rae (black and white) on 4th avenue and we needed some landscaping assistance with vicious Wisteria and Poison Ivy. George (brown) came about 6 months later because Billy needed a friend.

Now, almost 2 years later, we have 46 Barred Rock, two silly Pygmy goats, 8 blueberry bushes, 6 blackberry bushes, 6 fig trees and two very vivacious farm kitties Mewtant and Jacob. Please enjoy our products as much as we do, and hopefully as much as you enjoy the stories of our trials and tribulations.