Tag Archives: organic
Size Matters
“While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.” – Jonathan Safron Foer (Eating Animals) We consider factory farmed meat unacceptable. It is unacceptable … Continue reading
Getting Sauced
Every year, our tomato crops are by far our most successful of everything we grow. After planting our first garlic in the fall of 2011, the first structure we put up was our hoop house. We filled it with five … Continue reading
Time to Pull the Garlic
Garlic is one of the few crops you can plant in the fall or winter, pay practically no attention to whatsoever, and then harvest in the early weeks of summer. Garlic seems to thrive whether there is an abundance of … Continue reading
Hatching Chicks: An adorable, and slightly gross, photo essay
About a month ago, we started setting aside eggs to incubate. Since our original flock of Rhode Island Reds was starting to thin out, we felt it was time to start replacing those birds in order to maintain a good … Continue reading
Hand-Drawn Farm Map
In response to a request after the last post, I have done my best to draw a to-scale rendition of our little farm. Hopefully, this will clarify where everything is and how we’ve managed to stuff so gosh darned much … Continue reading
D.I.Y. Biodegradable Seed Planters
Y’know how when you finish a roll of toilet paper, you’re always trying to come up with a new and innovative use for the cardboard roll? No? That has genuinely never crossed your mind before? Oh. Well, let me tell … Continue reading
It’s Planting Time!
After the most seasonally-appropriate winter we’ve seen in many years, the snow has finally melted and the warmer weather has made its way to us. It’s startling how the to-do list on a farm goes from practically nothing from December … Continue reading
Shifting Into Spring – The Skinny on the Minis
Back at the beginning of the winter, we posted about our mini hoop houses (the ones we’d built inside the larger hoop house), and reported that the seedlings were starting to take off. We were hopeful that this system would … Continue reading
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