Mindful Farmer

Mindful Farmer Mindful Farmer is a garden, homestead, and farm supply company located in Central Arkansas
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05/26/2026

The Florida weave is one of the fastest and most affordable ways to trellis tomatoes, peppers, and other crops at scale while keeping plants upright and fruit clean.

Comment “YouTube Trellis” and we’ll send you our full trellising playlist.

05/26/2026

How has time flown by so fast?! Feels like just the other day I was planting that pear tree next to the shed with a little boy in diapers. Now that pear tree is 25 feet tall and that little boy is almost a teenager.

This garden has been growing in this space for the past eight years. Each year we are focusing on and feeding the soil and each year the garden has gotten easier to manage and yielded more. We have tried our best to create a healthy garden ecosystem and now it is rewarding us with abundance and balance.

While it might appear in the short video that we spend a lot of time working in the garden, it is mostly time observing, appreciating, and harvesting. That early work is paying dividends now.

This is actually our first weeding on the garden all season in preparation for a photo shoot tomorrow. I’m excited to tell you guys more about that soon, too.

05/18/2026

We implement practices like broadforking, crop rotation, cover cropping, permanent beds, and deep mulching to build healthier soil year after year. We soil test annually and use our Mindful Farmer organic fertilizers and soil amendments to dial in fertility while continually adding organic matter back into the system through shredded leaves, compost, and wood chips in our pathways.

Over time, this has dramatically improved our soil structure, infiltration rates, and water-holding capacity. In most seasons, we only irrigate during transplanting, germination, or extended droughts. Healthy soil holds water, cycles nutrients, and grows healthier plants with less intervention.

You can find our ergonomic broadforks and organic soil amendments at mindfulfarmer.co

We should also be adding soil tests to our site by midweek!

05/18/2026

Home garden update - May 17th - Central Arkansas - Zone 7b

Happy Sunday everybody! Hope y’all had a great weekend. Here’s a quick tour of our backyard garden. I hope it is helpful to you. I learn everyday by looking g to others. Please let me know if you have questions about anything you see.

05/17/2026

The best part of growing your own food is sharing it with people you care about.

05/15/2026

Fertilizer prices have doubled with rising fuel costs. Ours haven’t.

We source our inputs from American agricultural byproducts, materials that would otherwise go to waste, be burned, or exported and turn them into stable, sustainable, organic-approved fertility that feeds the soil and supports long-term production.

Less volatility. More resilience. Better soil.

Visit mindfulfarmerarkansas.com to see our full range of natural fertilizers and potting soils.

05/13/2026

Ducks are one of the best partners in the garden. We rotate them through the backyard to suppress weeds and grass, control pests, and fertilize naturally. We try to steward the whole backyard as one connected ecosystem where plants, animals, soil, and people all work together to thrive.

05/13/2026

I often try to ask myself this question, “Am I bringing life to the people and places I interact with?” or “Is there more life here now than there was before because I was present?” This applies as much relationally as it does ecologically.

I don’t get it perfect, and some days I’m more desert than oasis, but I’m trying and growing.

I hope you too find the people and places around you that could use your life and love. There are a lot of dry places that need it. ❤️

05/09/2026

Ducks have become one of the best tools in our garden. They help control weeds and pests, fertilize as they roam, and turn kitchen scraps and bugs into nutrient-dense eggs. They’re messy coworkers though. Duck eggs tend to end up muddy, splashed, and scattered around the duck yard.

That’s why we built a simple hands-free sink to make washing eggs quick and easy. Even better, none of the water goes to waste. We collect it and send those nutrients right back into the garden.

I’ll be posting a full tutorial this week on how to build a similar sink setup for your homestead or garden. Be sure to follow us on YouTube at Mindful Farmer for the full video.

05/08/2026

Here’s a quick tour of one of our climate controlled greenhouses that we built for the Master Gardeners in Benton, Arkansas.

This tunnel features thermostatically controlled vents and fans and also a double-layer inflated system to increase the efficiency of the tunnel and keep plants that are protected through the winter and get an earlier jump out of dormancy in the spring.

Head to our website for more information or drop me a message if you have any questions. We’d love to get you growing. NRCS Approved! Visit Mindfulfarmer.co

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North Little Rock, AR

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Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm

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