Our grandparents raised a house and an orchard and a garden on this ground outside Oxford starting in 1982, and the four of us have it now. We’re putting it back together slowly and in public — the cleanups, the setbacks, the first tomato out of Mamma’s garden.
Along the way we kept needing the same thing and never finding it: a plain list of who actually sells what, near here. Not a search result full of chains. Not a map full of places that closed in 2019. Just neighbors, and what comes off their land, and whether you ought to call first.
So we started writing it down. The Almanac is that list. It costs nothing to be in it because it costs us nothing to keep it — and because a family farm that wants its own neighbors found has no business charging them for the privilege.
If you farm, homestead, keep bees, milk a few cows, run a stand at the end of the driveway — you belong in here. Send it over.
— the Tramels
thirteen miles out of Oxford, Mississippi
We’re a farm, not a directory company. If that ever changes we’ll say so on this page before it does.
Or fewer. Send us a Facebook page and the name of your town and we’ll do the rest and email you the draft before it goes up.
On photographs, we’re strict for your sake as much as ours: we don’t lift pictures off Facebook, we don’t buy stock, and we never generate a fake picture of a real farm. Either you send us one you own, or your page carries a printed plate with your initials on it. That’s the whole policy.
One email. We’ll write it up, send you the draft, and put it live once you say it’s right. If we’ve already listed you and got something wrong, this is the same address to fix it.
That link opens a message with every line above already in it — including the photograph permission sentence, which we need in writing before a picture of your place goes up. Subject: “List my farm in the Almanac.”