The Cotton Shedd

Late Nights

Cleaning the Cotton Pickers

Happy Birthday Son!

Here is my cotton kid -  16 years old.  I love you son!!!

 

Harvest Has Begun!

We started picking this morning at 8:00.  Such a time of hard work and nervous anticipation.  The fields in front of my house are turning whiter by the hour. 

I also have a new partner in The Cotton Shedd, my daughter, Summer Grace.  She is amazingly creative and the most organized person I know.  She is bringing some new ideas with her.  We are putting the last touches on our studio this afternoon so it will be just right for this Saturday's wreath class.  As always we want our guests to be transported from the busy world and be enveloped in the simple steady rhythm of the farm. 

 

 

The new ground crew!

The new ground crew!

Courtesy of Sunland Visitor's Center's cotton tours.

Filming On The Farm

A great day today filming with Jan D'Atri, Julie Murprhee from Arizona Farm Bureau and a lovely bunch of cotton farm girls....

You Don't See That In Town

Just stopping in for an iced tea to go.

Duck!

Taken from my front porch.

Welcome to the 21st Century

The Cotton Shedd is now...

We also have heat and electric lights.  While it was fun having the pioneer experience last year, I really looove air conditioning this year.  Now, if we could just hook up an a/c unit in the fields.

Using Pennee's wreath mold.

Using Pennee's wreath mold.

A Surprise Article

We were pleasantly surprised when this article  ran in the Casa Grande Dispatch.  We were also touched by this article in which the Henness family remembers Rodney's grandfather, Frank Shedd.  He and KK Henness were good friends and good men and are both missed by our family.

Frank in 1984.