I created this blog to record and keep track of what I'm doing on my farm in Leflore County, Mississippi. It's called "Last Resort MS" because there's already a "last Resort Farm" on the web, some very nice folks in Vermont. Though the name of my farm might not be original, it has a certain pedigree. My great-grandmother gave it that name back in the 1860's. My family has owned this piece of land since not long after the Civil War.

The story is that my great-grandfather, a pioneer doctor, acquired the first parcel of what would eventually be Last Resort Plantation in payment for a medical debt. When he came home and informed his wife of that, she commented, "You'd better name it Last Resort, because we might end up there." Those were the hard years of Reconstruction, and, sure enough, that year (probably a lot like this year, come to think of it) the spring waters didn't recede till it was almost too late to plant. The story is they had to follow the receding floodwaters and plant in the mud. Got 700 bales off of 700 acres and had to give it up. Hmmm.... I planted some okra and peas in the mud yesterday.

So, yes, I might be a bit of a doomer, but I come by it honestly.

More as I get to it. One thing about living in the country is I have to come into town for the internet.