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 CommentsChipmunks! You think their just so cute don’t you? I mean who wouldn’t. With their fluffy tails, big puffy cheeks, and their spunky attitude. Last year I would have agreed with you. Meadow was slightly annoyed with them because they … Continue reading
Posted in Growing Food, Rice, Seeds | Leave a 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 commentAugust. The beginning of the bounty months. Our tomatoes are beginning to ripen, the peppers are hanging heavy on the plants, the carrots are getting ready to pull and the beans always need picking. We just bought a huge chest … Continue reading
Posted in Goats/Chickens, Rice, Uncategorized | 1 CommentAll around the world in places with thin soil and mountains or hills you can find terraces. It makes a lot of sense. Controls erosion, encourages soil building, much easier to work on and they also are very pleasing to … Continue reading
Posted in Rice | 9 CommentsFirst week of June. Time to plant. Back in the winter I pored over seed catalogues, drooling at the variety of potential available to me. If you’re not careful with those catalogues, you may find yourself over indulging in what … Continue reading
Posted in Growing Food | 1 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 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 CommentI placed our Fedco seed order this week. It is certainly a challenge trying to figure out what we are going to grow. Then figuring out how much we are going to grow. Then figuring out how many seeds need … Continue reading
Posted in Crop Planning, Growing Food, Seeds | Tagged Crop Planning, farming, Seeds | 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