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Monthly Archives: May 2011

Lawn Salad and a New Door

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* Time. I don’t know where it is all going. The temperature has been rising; we’ve been in the 80’s for several days now. Maybe I’m moving slower in this heat, my winter skin still not fully shed, but my … Continue reading

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Shhh….. I’m Hunting for Mushrooms

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It’s our third week of hunting. We’ve been successful in bringing in the Wild Ramp, The over abundant dandelion, the fiddle head fern, the wood sorrel, the clovers, and even some cattail shoots. Some of these, like the fiddleheads and … Continue reading

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Last week of May

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This week on the farm has been a busy one. We’ve been planting, transplanting and seeding, building an egg mobile for our chickens, playing with goats, going to the market and hunting for wily wild edibles. Last Saturday was the … Continue reading

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Long Week

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This week seemed to go by very fast, I’m not even sure where all the time went. Somehow though, it also seems like the week has been so very long and now on sunday with a week ahead of me … Continue reading

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New HugelBeets

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Finally 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

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Foraged Harvest.

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We did it. First farmer’s market of the season accomplished. It got a little hectic on friday trying to be ready for it, and we might have had the starting time wrong and got there a tad late, but it … Continue reading

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Bending our High Tunnel Pipe

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In 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

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