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07/22/2025

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03/21/2025

Happy Thursday!! 😀 IT'S NATIONAL FARM RESCUER DAY!
Author | C. Knighten

The 3rd Thursday in March is dedicated to those amazing volunteers who step up to support farmers in need!!

Life happens to everyone.....illness🤢, injury👩‍🦼 and natural disasters🌪 strike us all. However, when it happens to farmers, there is even more at stake. Farmers and Ranchers produce all of our food sources.......from fruits🍇, grains, nuts, to beef🐂, pork🐖, chicken🐔, fish🐟, and all those wonderful vegetables🍅🍆🥒🫑 we love to consume! When crisis strike......volunteers step in to handle the day to day chores that must be done......whether seeds need planting, crops need harvesting or the cows need to be fed......these amazing volunteers take care of the tasks that must be done to ensure that the farm continues.

While this was once, only a community tradition It has developed into a non-profit organization known as Farm Rescue. Founded in 2005, the individuals who have volunteered, have assisted nearly 800 farm and ranch families throughout the mid-west region. This day encourages all those able bodied hands, no matter what your background, to volunteer when the need arises!

There are many ways you can volunteer, from giving financial resources, time, talents, and good old fashioned hard work! Managing and running a farm requires all 'hands on 'deck'.....when the unexpected happens, Farm Rescue steps in with the resources to keep everything running as smoothly as possible!

Currently, Farm Rescue serves the following states:
🫘North Dakota
🌽Montana
🌱Minnesota
🌻South Dakota
🐂Nebraska
🥛Iowa
🍞Kansas

GREAT WAYS TO CELEBRATE THIS DAY:
🦺Volunteer: Skills, Time or Financial resources are all helpful.
🧑‍⚖️Sponsor a volunteer.
💳Make a donation to Farm Rescue.

Personally we are grateful for the farmers, ranchers, truckers and for every person in a profession that effects the production of our food resources. Without them, well....we might not eat nearly as well we currently do!! More importantly, where would you raise chickens, cattle, pigs, crops, vegetables, fruit and nuts....let alone mill cows???🧐😳

Have a great day....remember our farmers and if you want to learn more about investment farms, give us a call!

03/09/2025

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03/09/2025

Join us in celebrating Georgia Ag Week from March 17-21, 2025! This week-long event honors the dedication of our farmers and the significance of agriculture in our state.

Educators, students, and community members can participate in daily activities that highlight Georgia's diverse agricultural landscape. Register now to access lesson plans, hands-on activities, and videos to make each day of Ag Week engaging and educational!

🔗 Sign up today: https://georgiafarmbureau.regfox.com/2025-ag-week

03/07/2025

Happy Friday!!😀 SOMETIMES YOU GOTTA LAUGH!!😂
Author | C. Knighten
Source | Vince The Sign Guy

We always try to end the week by giving you something to laugh about! I don't know about you, but we believe in working hard and nothing makes our day a little lighter than a good laugh! 🤣 Here is what we know about the history of the 'hush puppy"!

TRUTH BE TOLD!
Honestly, there are tales and stories, but no one is actually credited with creating or making hush puppies! Without a doubt though, they are a staple enjoyed by people far wide in the South. Personally, I truly love them and could down a whole basket by myself....however, it wouldn't leave room for my main course!

ORIGINS OF THE HUSH PUPPY:
🌱South Carolina theory:
A chef in South Carolina, named Romeo Govan, an African American man, ran fish fries and served fried cornmeal orbs, he called "red horse bread'!
🍑Georgia theory:
Here it was called 'three-fingered bread". It is believed that this started inn 1927, but there is no story to confirm this information.
🏖Florida theory;
In Florida, people have referred to hush puppies as 'wampus' bread for years!

The tale behind the reason 'hush-puppies' were created is a simple one, whether you credit it to confederate soldiers or to fisherman🎣....they would cook them to keep their hound dogs quiet, while they were cooking their dinner!!

I don't know about you, but at the end of the day, I don't care nearly as much about where they came from as I do, that they are cooked just right!! You can serve them with seafood, catfish or pulled pork bbq....they are absolutely delicious no matter what you serve them with! Yum-Yum!! 😋

We hope you will share this funny far and wide, and remember, if you need help finding recreational land, an investment farm....or you are ready to sell your farm, we would love to help you!!

Have a great Friday and wonderful weekend!! 😀

03/05/2025

Happy Wednesday!! 😀 GREAT RETIREMENT👨‍🦳 OPTIONS!!
Author | C. Knighten

Why would anyone want to retire and buy recreational land? Oh, let me count the ways!!

Essentially, purchasing property that they set-aside for leisure activities like hunting🦌, fishing🎣, hiking🚶‍♀️, camping⛺️, or simply enjoying the natural beauty of a forest or mountains. Quite often this is how they will spend their new found leisure time, whether is simply relaxing in their new cabin home or enjoying the sounds of nature now that they have left the rat-race in the city.

Another reason people often buy recreational land is to leave a legacy for their children and grandchildren. Many of them develop the land for recreation that can be shared with others for profit. Simple ways to develop the property can include either a campground or RV park, sometimes referenced as a caravan park. Here is a great list of options:

KEY WAYS TO DEVELOP RECREATIONAL LAND:
🚶‍♀️Hiking / Walking Trails:
In 2024 alone, 61.44 million people went hiking! That is roughly 1/3 of the population in the United States. It is popular with many age groups and is considered the most popular nature-based activity in the U.S.
⛺️Camping or Glamping ground!
Camping saw a huge increase after Covid hit....people wanted to go somewhere after being quarantined with less risk involved. Campgrounds can be quite profitable, however, you must consider the seasonality, location and expense to develop it.
🚚RV Park!
An RV Park requires a bigger investment to develop it to ensure accessibility and basic amenities, like access to water, utilities and good roads with pads for parking. Depending on the location, it is also a great idea to offer internet access as well.
🛌Glamping!
For the Gen Z crowd, this is the route they typically take. They are looking for nature access, but also want to feel pampered. This can be more expensive to develop as you are also investing in structures for your paying guests to enjoy.
🐦Birdwatching Sanctuary!
The number of Americans who participate in birdwatching may surprise you: 96 million people across America, or roughly 3 out of every 10 people participate. This sport, knows no age boundaries, as people from 16 up actively pursue this activity!

There are many ways to develop recreational land to provide both a sustainable income and amazing legacy for your family. If you have given this some thought, but are uncertain where to start, we are here to assist you in acquiring the best property to meet your needs. Between our years of experience and Nationwide network we will locate the perfect property to check off all the boxes!

Visit our website and give us a call today! We look forward to hearing from you:
https://www.underwoodlandcompany.com/

03/03/2025

Happy Monday!! 😀 IT'S NATIONAL SCHOOL🏫 BREAKFAST🍳 WEEK!
Author | C. Knighten

Two months into the new year, we celebrate National School 🏫Breakfast Week during the first full week in March. The objective of this holiday is to raise awareness about the purpose of this federally funded program. Science has proven that nutrition improves a child's over all mental and physical well being.

Since its inception in 1966, the School 🏫Breakfast Program has served billions of nutritious and free meals to children regardless of their economic status. Ensuring that more students will receive free breakfast in Madison County from 2025-2026, Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed Senate Bill 59 into law Feb. 20th.

HISTORY OF NATIONAL SCHOOL🏫 BREAKFAST WEEK:
This amazing plan to ensure that children have an opportunity to eat breakfast before they prepare to learn, is the brain child of Kentucky Congressman Carl Perkins, who originally proposed this plan for school children of low-income families.

It took several months before a two-year pilot program finally launched in 1966.
Providing this program, gave children a well-balanced meal that met, standard dietary regulations for all students. Throughout the course of the mid-1970s, the program was extended even further to expand the positive effects it provided for low-income families. With the companies like Food Research & Action Center lobbying for it's permanent adoption, it finally came to fruition in 1975.

The program’s continuous expansion and eventual permanence resonated its importance throughout the country. Today, more than 90,000 schools participate in the School Breakfast Program. On an average day, 14.5 million students are served with fresh and nutritious breakfast as they head to their classes.

GREAT WAYS TO CELEBRATE NATIONAL SCHOOL🏫 BREAKFAST🍊 WEEK:
👧Help others in our community!
Yes, the School Breakfast Program helps children in school but there are families that also need assistance. We have several here in Huntsville:
🍌Manna House
🍇Food Bank of North Alabama
🍊Huntsville Assistance Program

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Food Banks need Volunteers!
There are many ways to help, from packing, sorting, assisting others and they often need help. It's a great way to earn some extra karma points for sure!

📲Share on Social Media!
Spread the word through your social platforms and let others know more about the services available.....life happens and sometimes people need help!

To learn more about our services, please visit our website:
https://www.underwoodlandcompany.com/

02/28/2025

Happy Friday!! 😀 SOMETIMES YOU GOTTA LAUGH!!😂
Author | C. Knighten

We hope you have had a great week and enjoyed the roller coaster🎡 weather we have been experiencing! To say the least, it has become a strange norm that we deal with living here. In a single week we can go from snow ⛄️❄️and ice to grilling🥩 and digging shorts out of the closet to deal with temps in the 80's! 😂

As you know, we love🥰 our farmers👨‍🌾and ranchers🐂and everything to do with this industry. From vegetable farms, to cotton. corn and rice.......investment farms to discovering the perfect retirement / recreational property for our clients...or working with investors to find great land....we love doing it all. Most importantly with our Nation Wide Network....we can help you from coast to coast!

As for today's punny....well, we are happy you are eating vegetables grown by our local farm 👩‍🌾families and can't wait for our local Farmers Markets to open up with fresh produce🍅🌽🥒! However, for those us who are carnivores at heart....nope, we don't get it....but, we do respect your right to eat what you want....so, EAT More Veggies!!

LOCAL FARMERS MARKETS OPEN DATES SPRING 2025:
🧅The Market at MidCity | Opens on Sunday, March 16, 2025 from 12–4 PM. It will run every Sunday until November 9, 2025.
🍅Madison County Farmers Market
Opens on Wednesday, April 16, 2025 and runs until November 29, 2025. It will be open Wednesday–Saturday from 8 AM–4 PM.
🥦Greene Street Market at Nativity
Opens on Thursday, May 1, 2025 and runs until Thursday, August 28, 2025. It will also open on Thursday from September 4–October 30, 2025.
🥕Bailey Cove Farmers Market at St. Thomas
Opens on May 3, 2025.

We wish you a great Friday and wonderful weekend and remember, if you need us, we are just a phone📲 call away! Check out our website: https://www.underwoodlandcompany.com/

02/26/2025

Happy Wednesday!! IT"S NATIONAL SNACK FOOD MONTH!!
Author | C. Knighten

Could there be a better month to promote 'snacks' in general....I mean, we celebrated the Super Bowl🏈, then Valentines and President's Day....all great reasons to layout the table with lots of different munchies! However, the sad truth is that when we set to entertain either family or guests...we often load up on not-so-healthy snacks!

Originally created by the National Snack Food Association with the National Potato Promotion Board in 1989, they had a goal to encourage snacking for your health! 🧐 Yes, I know.....but keep in mind, snacking the right way has several health benefits, including weight loss. 🤯

GREAT SNACKS THAT ARE HEALTHY INCLUDE:
🥜Mixed nuts
🫑Pepper slices to dip in guacamole🥗
🫐Greek yogurt with granola, oats, and/or mixed berries
🍎Apple slices, carrots🥕, or celery🥬 dipped in peanut butter
🍑Cottage cheese (with any toppings, or as a salad dressing replacement)
🍫Dark chocolate with almonds
🥒Cucumber (or any veggies) dipped in hummus
🍐Any fruits and veggies🥦
🍅Cherry tomatoes with mozzarella and basil
🥚Hard-boiled eggs
🥓Healthy beef jerky
🧋Protein shake or fruit smoothie
🍿Popcorn
🎣Canned Fish

HEALTHY BENEFITS OF SNACKING:
Eating small amounts of food every 3-4 hours can help maintain...
💉stable blood sugar levels
😀improve mood
🚶‍♀️maintain energy
🤓increase ability to focus
😴improve sleep quality

GREAT WAYS TO CELEBRATE NATIONAL SNACK FOOD MONTH!
🧋Have a Smothie instead!
Whether you go get one or make one at home, there are many delicious and heatlhy smoothie options. Here is a great one from Res, The Pioneer Woman:
https://www.thepioneerwoman.com/food-cooking/recipes/a11372/purple-resolution-smoothie/
🍪Make your own Energy Bites!
These make a great on-the-go snack for you or your kids. Check out these easy, no-bake awesome flavor options from Erin Clarke at Well Plated: https://www.wellplated.com/energy-balls/https://www.wellplated.com/energy-balls/
🥘Try some yummy homemade humus!
Love and Lemons is another recipe site that offers easy and delicious recipes. Here is a great one for home made humus: https://www.loveandlemons.com/hummus-recipe/ -recipe-container-42599

Regardless of how you choose to approach your healthy snacking, always remember, there was a farmer, rancher, or orchardist....for the amazing bounty of fresh fruit, quality meats and wonderful produce we have at hand!!

To figure out how you can get involved with your own invesment farm or farm, check out our website and give us a call....we are always happy to assist in locating your dream property: https://www.underwoodlandcompany.com/

02/24/2025

Happy Monday!! 😀 IT'S BERRY🍓 FRESH MONTH!!
Author | C. Knighten

You might be surprised to know that strawberries, one the most popular berries, is not a berry at all! 🧐 In fact, they are part of the "Rosacea" or rose🌹 family, which includes other fruits like pears🍐, apples🍎, raspberries, blackberries, cherries🍒 and apricots.

Celebrated every February, Berry Fresh Month reminds us of the nutritional benefits these beauties bring to us! The objective of this holiday is to bring a focus to different types of berries from blueberries, raspberries, red currants, black currants, and white currants. Additionally it is important to learn which berries are poisonous!

TIMELINE OF FRESH BERRY MONTH:
🍓First Mention of Strawberries | 1sr Century
Virgil and Ovid, Roman poets, make references to strawberries.
🌲From Forests to Gardens | 14th Century
The French are credited with transplanting wild strawberrie
from from the forest to their personal gardens.
🚂Controversial Transport | 1714
It is reported that 5 Chilean strawberry plants were illegally
transported by a spy from Chile to France.
🍓Birth of the Modern Strawberry | 18th Century
French gardeners in Brest and Cherbourg are credited with
pollinating the Chilean strawberry plants, which were female,
with the Virginia strawberry, creating the modern strawberry
otherwise known as the, Fragaria ananassa.

GREAT WAYS TO CELEBRATE FRESJH BERRY MONTH:
🌱Plant your own!
While growing blueberries takes several years to see a yield,
strawberries can be grown in hanging bags, pots or raised
garden beds.
🍓Keep them Fresh longer!
Mix 1 part vinegar with 3 parts water, soak your berries for
three to five minutes, then rinse with water. Drain them on a
paper towel an store them in a glass or plastic container
without a lid.
🥧Make a Triple Berry Pie!
I love finding great recipes and this one from, Better from
Scratch has rave reviews:
https://tastesbetterfromscratch.com/triple-berry-pie/
However, if you are a little daunted about baking your own, you
could also try Marie Calendar's Razzleberry Pie, it is
scrumptious!! 😋

02/21/2025

Happy Friday!! 😀 SOMETIMES YOU GOTTA LAUGH!!

I hope everyone will forgive me as I am functioning under the weather today! It started yesterday and I hope it's gone real soon.....in light of that, I decided to make a little change from our norm....after watching this, I think is both amusing and appropriate!!

We truly hope that you enjoy it and will share it far and wide! More importantly, please reach out if you are currently looking to sell your farm or ranch, or you are in the market to buy....we would love to help you locate your dream farm and start living a country life!! We have over 20 years experience and with our Nationwide Network, we know we can find exactly what you are dreaming of!!

Have a great Friday, and stay warm out there!!😀

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