When GFM was looking for someone to write about flower farming, I jumped at the opportunity. A farmer for more than 20 years — also vegetables but now mostly flowers — I have a lot to offer readers. I will describe all the mistakes we have made and show all the successes, too. Currently on […]
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Soil microbes fuel nutrient cycling I vividly remember sitting in soil science and plant nutrition classes at my alma mater land grant university, wondering if the conventional agricultural paradigm was really just one long sales pitch. Despite the so-called “sustainable agriculture” title in my degree, I spent entire semesters listening to professors talk in circles
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Perennial alliums and good storage August, September and October This is the second of a quarterly series on alliums. The first appeared in GfM May 2022. In late summer and early fall, there are some perennial alliums that can be planted, and some that can be harvested. Various alliums already harvested will need curing,
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In my last article on tools for helping with pricing I talked about the importance of using your variable costs to understand the minimum price you can charge without losing money on every extra sale of a product you make (see “Tools to help you put the right price on your products,” from the February
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Three years after starting up our Oregon farm, my husband, Casey, and I decided it was time to grow our farm family. In April 2009, I found out I was pregnant with our first child. Looking at the pregnancy test double lines felt like the start of a whole new adventure in our farming life,
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