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Slowpoke Farm is a 20 year chemical free farm, south of Cisco, Texas. Our operation is diverse. We raise some livestock; jersey cows, heritage pigs an[...]

It’s what’s happening at Slowpoke right now: grafting trees and feeling grateful about being reviewed in Texas Monthly! At the farm house, you can[...]

When we talk to people getting started in farming or gardening, we have a couple things we share with every person.  First, we tell them to start sma[...]

How To Prepare Pecans After a few people asked me about soaking pecans, something they read in the newspaper article, I decided to share a little more[...]

Last summer a customer gave me some delicious yellow cherry tomatoes from their garden. He had planted them years ago, but they come back each year a[...]

Where’s the okra? It’s mid July and there has been very little okra on the tables at the Farmers Market. Our plants are doing well, but are just [...]

Absolutely nothing makes a farmer happier than rain falling on his dry, parched land. There has been rain in the area and all around us, however, thi[...]

I guess preparing for next year, in the beginning of July, may not sound like a Slowpoke characteristic, but we are doing it. All the garden rows are[...]

Even Bunny sees the benefit of a well mulched garden. Our only complaint is when she tries to remove the mulch to lay in the cool, moist dirt. Once a[...]

Why grass-fed? The answer is pretty simple; grass-fed is better for YOU, for the COW and for the ENVIRONMENT. The definition of grass-fed can be misl[...]