Welcome to Our Small Farm

I've tossed the idea of creating a website for the "Bledsoe Farm" for a while.  I've just not been really excited to pull the trigger on the cost involved for something that I may get bored with in 2 months or 2 years.  I know "blogging" has been around for a while but had never experimented with it.  I started recently with another cause that I'm involved in and discovered how relatively easy it is.  So I figured why not start with a free blog and go from there!  Easy enough right?

My grandmothers green thumb

Misc. Old Farm Photos

Cotton Note

Grandparents tending to various crops

 I grew up in a really rural area of South Carolina in a family that had farmed most all of their lives.  I remember watching my grandfather planting a garden every year all the way into his late 70's to early 80's using nothing more than a front tine tiller, push plow and hoe.  I can still see him in his overall's covering a long sleeved flannel shirt, in the middle of summer, side-dressing the corn, beans, cucumbers, squash, tomatoes and all of the other vegetables he took care of.  The funny thing is I can not particularly remember eating much of the harvests but I learned much by watching him practically give away most of it to folks who really needed it.  People would always offer money and he would politely decline, yet their persistence would result in his taking a couple of dollars for his baskets of goods and being on his way.  He had long given up raising livestock by this time however the old barns and hog "parlor" remain to this day on that land.  Even though my grandmother passed away when I was young, I do know she had her own "green thumb" for flower gardening as well.  During this time my grandparents raised cattle, swine, chickens, goats and also grew cotton for a period.

Livestock of the old farm

I guess you can say "farming" is in my blood.  After high school I moved away from this community but to this day still think it is some of the most beautiful land you will ever see.  I moved to a suburban area to begin a career and start my family.  There has never been a doubt that I'd end up back in the country and letting that part of me go wild.  My wife never believed she would live in the country and even resisted for a while but I can tell you with no hesitation she would never move back to a "sub-division".

Some Bledsoe Farm harvest

We are a family on 6 small acres in rural Lexington County, SC with a desire to do some small scale farming with a garden, fruit trees, chickens, old school farm dogs known officially as English Shepherds and room to grow.  Many ideas abound, projects are underway and all of it is often interrupted for those atypical "maintenance" issues that always arise such as the recent well pump crisis and typical chores like cutting the grass or raking leaves.

Fence work, chickens, Lady and Ripley

I foresee the day we have some livestock to include horses, a cow or two and swine.


Welcome to our "blog" and we look forward to having you along for our growth.