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I am sorry to have this rant, I might not even post this.. I most likely will and I am sure I will lose a reader or two.. but I have to write this.. If you live in an apartment or a tiny condo in the city, you can be many things.. You can be […]
I Yield I Yield LOL
Ok, its just going on record that we are going to be “in just in time mode” on most things this year. Let me give a example.. we have pulled at least a hundred or two wild parsnips but then we needed to focus on this or that.. and suddenly this week, we are like.. […]
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Gal in the Garden Series – Working with “dead” top soil..
It looks so pretty.. that big huge mound of top soil.. so black and rich! Two loads of 10 tons each have arrived on the farm this year so far.. and its easy to work with, its good quality top … Continue reading
Posted in Gal in the Garden Series, Garden
Tagged compost, cover crops, feeding your soil, Gal in the Garden Series, improving soil
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Winter Manure and Composting
A poo.. If you have farm critters you have poo.. if you have bigger critters, you have lots of Manure Piles! My two horse’s alone produce around a hundred pounds of poo a day. Lets break it down a … Continue reading
Posted in farm, Garden
Tagged compost, composting, Composting on the homestead, Hot Compost
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Friday Rambles around the table “Soil Regenerative”
Quick, Quick its pouring rain.. glad you made it, its raining so hard that there are road closures, and the kiddo’s buses are canceled as well. Shake yourself off and come on in.. I have got a lovely pot of … Continue reading
Digging in the garden
Well, the sun was shining to day, it was beautiful out, and I got to spend a good portion of the day outside off and on again. One of the things I noticed was the flower beds are all melting … Continue reading
Compost.. another farm impute 2015
This one has been a pain to track over the spring, raw compost for certain projects gets one price, compost -1 or 2 year gets a different price and compost that is 3 to five plus that is now really, rich … Continue reading
Working Pigs!
Yup its that time of the year.. time to start putting pigs to work… Lets see who is on our work team this year.. Apple is getting nice sized, she is a total sweetheart of a gilt, sweet as can … Continue reading
Roughly composted uses in the garden
I know that not everyone has access to farm compost or even backyard rabbit or bird compost but everyone that does has a little issue.. most of the time their compost looks nothing like what you see in the stores … Continue reading
Warm temps..
Rain has come to the farm, it was a green Christmas, my plans for dressing up the horses, rain, my plan for going riding, rain. But today, o toady is overcast but its currently dry, there is only one big … Continue reading
Posted in gardens
Tagged animal bedding, Cleaning animal pens, compost, Prep work in the garden for fall
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Plan and Prepare-Garden
Well, this very dry year has been eye openning to say that least, I have never had so little rain ever, we have our own tracking system and even when the area’s around us get rain, we are getting nothing, … Continue reading
Posted in gardens
Tagged 100 mile food challange, Chores, compost, dry land planting spacing, Frugal, Garden, Goals, growing your own wheat, Hugelbeet, hugelculture, mulch, Veggies
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What’s working in the garden in this heat and drought..
Well, most of you know that I love to try a number of different things in the garden, and I have had alot of success with my no-till, dry land planting spacing and with my mulching.. Having said that, this … Continue reading
Posted in gardens
Tagged compost, dry land planting, Food Forest, Garden, Greens, Hugelbeet, hugelculture, underground compost pits
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