Category Archives: Food Forest
Clove Current.. Garden 2015
Called clove currant, this is not a black currant except in color. It ripens much later, is bigger and sweeter without the black currant muskiness. The yellow flowers in spring are spicy sweet and the bush is large (5′-6′) and … Continue reading
Elderberry Cuttings
This is a interesting little project, part working rooting cuttings, part community project and part growing for the food forest production. By this I mean that I need to learn how to produce more baby plants, I tend to lean … Continue reading
Jerusalem artichokes.. a Early season delight
Spring food is hard to come by, sunchokes aka Jerusalem artichokes can help fill that early spring gap.. Clearly I need to add in new kinds that produce more, this kind that I got in a free plant swap, produce … Continue reading
Posted in food, Food Forest, Garden harvest
Tagged early spring harvests, Jerusalem artichokes, spring eating, sunchokes
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Things I need to move from one area to another-re garden
I need to dig out another ten wild violets plants from the food forest and move them into spots in the main garden. I need to dig up twelve red and twelve white clover plants from the buffer zones and move … Continue reading
Seedy Saturday.. Seeds , Seeds and more seeds
Once again this event was busy! While my photo was snapped in a lull because the rooms with the seminars was full, full! the parking lot told the truth, it was almost impossible to find a place to park, once … Continue reading
The squash flowth over..
Well, the squash bed is sure getting interesting.. so as you know the original bed started out at 700 square feet, this was a full round bale rolled down and then hills made, it filled it and continued to spread.. … Continue reading
Posted in Food Forest
Tagged food forests, squash grown in straw, Squash hills, squash plants
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Sunflower Report 1- May
Well, for those of you who are new to the blog, please check out my first post on the grand 2013 Sunflower plan 🙂 So its grown a bit, I have confirmed with Farmer R that he has no issues … Continue reading
Posted in Food Forest, gardens
Tagged sunflowers, sunflowers for animal fodder, sunflowers for bedding for animlas
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Hops..
Its kinda funny that for someone who does not drink beer, I am so excited to have added in hops to the farm. I am looking forward to using them as a mild amount of fodder, there are good solid … Continue reading
Just another Day on the Farm 