In our first season of growing flowers, we propped an old doghouse on stilts, painted it white, and called it a farmstand. A neighboring farmer said it might be a nice way to earn a little beer money. We promoted it heavily on social media, and on opening day had a line of cars down […]
Flower farmstand: If you build it, they will come Read More »
I’ve spent 26 seasons turning non-agricultural land into top quality soil, and my love affair with cardboard is stronger than ever. We are located in the North Quabbin region of Massachusetts, in the hills above a once fertile valley that was flooded in the 1930s to create the water supply for Boston. Many said we
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How to work with its difficult characteristics and beneficial properties I grew up on a small farm about 12 miles from where I now farm in the high desert of Oregon (zone 6b). That farm was in the middle of the Grande Ronde Valley where there are 200 feet of “topsoil.” If asked about
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#ToolsForGrowingMarket A friend sent me a link to the video Small Axe Farm posted on their Instagram of a little rolling bed marker they had just made from wood scraps and a piece of threaded rod. I’ve been using rolling bed markers for over 20 years, and even wrote an article about them in Growing
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Look at the big picture to reduce weeds in the long run Spring has sprung, hopefully newly emerging crops are sprouting forth with youthful vigor, spurned on by your abundant soils’ sweet succor. I had the opportunity in a recent issue of this illustrious ag-mag to share with you some tips on weeding tools
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