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Honky Tonk Farms & Apothecary @honkytonkfarms.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This little friend was hiding in the watering can! 🐸

A frog on the leaf of a Coffea arabica plant

Honky Tonk Farms & Apothecary @honkytonkfarms.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Why mulch your garden beds? This week, I got a dump truck load of mulch from ChipDrop, a free-to-low-cost program that pairs local arborists with homes that want lots of mulch. Scroll below to see how I’m using it on the farm.

A large pile of mulch (mostly pine wood chips and needles) with a pitchfork sticking out of the pile

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Honky Tonk Farms & Apothecary @honkytonkfarms.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One of my farmer’s market customers brought me delicious fig jam recently, so I recreated one of my favorite gin cocktails, from The Vault in Tulsa, OK.

A glass of a gin and fig jam cocktail: the drink is murky brown with fig seeds visible among the ice.

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Honky Tonk Farms & Apothecary @honkytonkfarms.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Our fall & winter plant nursery is coming soon! Did you know you can continue gardening through the cold season here in South Carolina? Check out my new article that explains what crops you can grow & strategies to use: farmerrhy.substack.com/p/fall-and-w...

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Fall & Winter Gardening

A New Resource from Honky Tonk Farms & Apothecary on Cool-Season Growing in South Carolina

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Honky Tonk Farms & Apothecary @honkytonkfarms.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Brewing my first batch of compost tea using local worm castings (from Dirty Chicks Worm Castings in Lexington, SC), liquid kelp, and a bit of sorghum molasses. By aerating the water with these ingredients, you make a nutrient-rich, bioactive “tea” to water or spray your crops, feeding microbes.

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Honky Tonk Farms & Apothecary @honkytonkfarms.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I’m doing a fall/winter plant nursery! Picture here are some of the seedlings. Look for fall plants in the next couple of weeks at the Blythewood Farmer’s Market & on October 18 at @yallmart.bsky.social!

Snap pea seedlings growing in a tray under LED lights

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Join us in celebrating the people who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay

illustration of two farm workers loading the crop onto a truck, with “Happy Labor Day!” text, UFW eagle emblem in a red circle, and 09.07 date.

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Rhy Robidoux @honkytonkwitch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Thank you to everyone who came out to last night's fundraiser with @honkytonkfarms.bsky.social & @liberationislit.bsky.social at The Hoot! If you missed out, you can read about the event, the book, and the Phoenix Library on my Substack: farmerrhy.substack.com/p/gaza-write...

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Gaza Writes Back

We Listen and Take Action

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Rhy Robidoux @honkytonkwitch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Our rescheduled date for the Gaza Writes Back fundraiser is this Thursday, September 3! Come to The Hoot in Columbia, SC, to listen to readings from the anthology & discuss themes over dinner or a drink. Book sales will go towards rebuilding a library in Gaza. Doors open at 6:30.

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Rhy Robidoux @honkytonkwitch.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

We were going to have a fundraiser tonight at The Hoot in Columbia, SC, to support the rebuilding of a library in Gaza, before the weather forced us to postpone (new due coming soon!). We’d love to still raise funds in the meantime!

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Honky Tonk Farms & Apothecary @honkytonkfarms.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Meet the hornworm eating my heirloom tomato. Check out the images to learn more about the parasitic wasps that are about to eat the hornworm. #nosprayfarm #gardening #biology

Hornworm on the underside of a tomato leaf. The hornworm is covered in parasitic wasp eggs. (There’s also a cartoon gif with fire and the word “Muahahah”

Meet the hornworm: can quickly decimate tomato or tobacco crops

Meet the parasitic wasp: adult lays on eggs on hornworms so when the babies hatch, they’ve got a buffet

Sure, I *could* spray my tomatoes but by letting the hornworm temporarily eat this tomato plant, I’m allowing Mother Nature to enact a pest control solution that takes care of itself for the long run. These parasitic wasp eggs will hatch soon, and the babies will grow into adults who continue the cycle on and on. Adults drink nectar, so I’ll be sure to keep small flowers like yarrow nearby to encourage the new adults to stick around.

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Honky Tonk Farms & Apothecary @honkytonkfarms.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Introducing Plant Preorders! 🌱 Columbia Pickups Saturday, May 30 & Wednesday, June 3, 9:30-12:30 The Boxcar Garden (1510 Laurens Street) 🌱 Blythewood Pickups Wednesdays, June 3 & 10, 4:00-7:00 during the Blythewood Farmer’s Market Doko Meadows Park (171 Langford Road)

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Honky Tonk Farms & Apothecary @honkytonkfarms.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Celebrate National Gardening and Poetry Months with Honky Tonk Farms & Apothecary and Liberation is Lit! The farm’s annual spring plant sale will include lots of heirloom fruits & veggies, culinary & medicinal herbs, and annual & native perennial flowers! @liberationislit.bsky.social

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Honky Tonk Farms & Apothecary @honkytonkfarms.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I loved spending time with @cassiepremosteele.bsky.social on the farm last month and am so honored she chose to feature the farm in this beautiful article!

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Honky Tonk Farms & Apothecary @honkytonkfarms.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Collards and arugula doing well under the ice and even the calendula that survived the summer heat sheltered well under the bucket last night.

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Honky Tonk Farms & Apothecary @honkytonkfarms.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Thanks to my wonderful customers, we were able to make donations to the Al-Mawasi Clinic in Khan Younis and to Ahmed the Little Farmer in Gaza—$50 each—through farm sales from September - November! Thank you everyone! 🩷🇵🇸

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Honky Tonk Farms & Apothecary @honkytonkfarms.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

The growing season may be (mostly) over with last night’s frost, but market season is getting busy! Here is where I’ll be this month, so come get some herbal teas for yourself or your holiday shopping!

Three bags of herbal teas lined up on a stone table

A flyer that says: Holiday Market, November 22nd, Saturday, 10AM - 2 PM, Doko Meadows Park, Blythewood, SC

A flyer with a ghost wearing a Santa hat that says: Tis the Season Market, Nov 23rd, 12 - 4 PM, 2321 Devine St, Columbia, SC

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Honky Tonk Farms & Apothecary @honkytonkfarms.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Join me this Saturday @ MLK Park (in 5 Points) @ 2:00 & 3:30 for my Container Gardening 101 workshops! We’ll discuss low-cost ways to grow your own food & herbs in pots, covering topics like soil health, light & water, transplanting young plants & pest management strategies. Other activities too!

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Honky Tonk Farms & Apothecary @honkytonkfarms.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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Honky Tonk Farms & Apothecary @honkytonkfarms.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

NEW HERBAL PRODUCTS 🌿 🍋 Lemongrass Herbal Tea 🌿 Tulsi (Holy Basil) Herbal Tea 🌺 Roselle (Hibiscus/Sorrel/Jamaíca) Herbal Tea 🌶️ Crushed Aleppo Pepper Flakes Come get them at @yallmart.bsky.social this Sunday outside Art Bar from 1-5pm! 🎃

A close up of dried tulsi leaves and flowers

A close up of dried and crushed Aleppo pepper in a glass bowl

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Honky Tonk Farms & Apothecary @honkytonkfarms.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

We have new eco-friendly stickers! Our logo stickers will be available with tan and white backgrounds. They will be available starting at @yallmart.bsky.social this Sunday, from 1:00-5:00 in Columbia! Who said merch couldn’t be sustainable?

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Honky Tonk Farms & Apothecary @honkytonkfarms.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

This Indigenous Peoples’ Day, I want to acknowledge that the land my farm occupies is rightfully Catawba land. I firmly believe that the reason this land is so fertile and full of diverse life is due to their stewardship for so long.

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