Plastic is everywhere on the modern farm. We have two high tunnels and a greenhouse that are covered in plastic. The high tunnel plastic will stay on the tunnels for 5 or 6 years then will be used for winter … Continue reading
Posted in Farming Tech, Growing Food, Seeds | 2 CommentsTo heat our greenhouse we knew we wanted to use wood from our property. Normal wood stoves are a pain because you have to burn them for a long time and you lose a large amount of the woods … Continue reading
Posted in Farming Tech, Rocket Mass heater | 1 CommentI talked about bending the pipe in a previous post(here) and now I’ll go over how we did the rest of the tunnel. I designed the tunnel based on the professional manufactured tunnels from a few different companies. SketchUp helped … Continue reading
Posted in Farming Tech, Growing Food, Uncategorized | 1 CommentWe have been working up to this day for quite a while now. The survey stakes are out. The sides of the field have been cleared back a bit and our giant white pine Christmas tree in the middle has … Continue reading
Posted in Farming Tech, Growing Food, Rice, Uncategorized | Leave a commentFinally the sun has been shinning long enough for the ground to dry out and for us to start building another round of hugelbeets. Last year we built 7 45 foot long beds which are now growing different greens, peas … Continue reading
Posted in Farming Tech, Growing Food, Hugelbeets | 2 CommentsIn our farming practices we try to align ourselves with natural processes, but sometimes we make the choice to move further away from them. This is the case for the high tunnel we are building. It adds the potential for … Continue reading
Posted in Farming Tech | 4 CommentsThe walk-in shell is finally done. It took awhile since nothing was quite square and I kept having to run to the hardware store. I also had no idea what I was doing for the most part. Most of the … Continue reading
Posted in Farming Tech | 3 CommentsThe past couple of days have been some unlucky days with trucks. We were unloading wood down at Forget Me Not Farm and ended up breaking the front axle of one of the trucks. We still had the dodge going … Continue reading
Posted in Farming Tech | 2 CommentsThe summer of 2009 I became very interested in aquaponics. Aquaponics is the combining of aquaculture(growing fish or other water based animal) and hydroponics(growing plants in a medium other than soil and providing nutrients through a liquid solution). Aquaponics is … Continue reading
Posted in Aquaponics, Farming Tech, Growing Food | Tagged aquaponics, indoor growing | 1 CommentOn our farm we are using permanent raised beds. The beds are based on a german/austrian raised bed technique which they call Hügelbeet some folks in America are calling it hugelkulture. Which roughly translates to mound bed and that describes … Continue reading
Posted in Farming Tech, Growing Food | Tagged farming, garden beds, hugelbeet | 1 Comment