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City girl goes to the garden: summer squash
I’m not sure if I’ve confessed this before on the blog, but for most of my life, I’ve been what gardeners would call a Black Thumb. In other words, plants tend to die around me. My … more →
Farming 101
falcons as starling control
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farming101 wrote 1 year ago: (When the Barbary tiercel — a subspecies of the peregrine — looks the other way, the dog … more →
growing fancy: chioggia beets
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farming101 wrote 1 year ago: Farmflash: Food = Expensive. Kenya questions value of organics. (But did the study they cited test p … more →
the price of a radish: part two
farming101 wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday, Emmett and I ventured into the Big Apple… and stumbled across actual apples, not to … more →
pastured dairy
farming101 wrote 1 year ago: Yes, that’s pastured, not pasteurized. Emmett and I are currently visiting a grass-fed dairy o … more →
growing fancy: purple pole beans
farming101 wrote 1 year ago: Decorate your garden, tout your heirloom pride, and nurture your inner gourmet: grow purple beans. W … more →
ways not to farm: part I, general design
farming101 wrote 1 year ago: I think it might be useful to start a list of lessons I’ve learned by doing things the wrong w … more →
heirloom failures
farming101 wrote 1 year ago: So by now you know that Emmett and I handily killed $300 worth of seeds. (Well, it was really Emmett … more →
the che(e)p brooder
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farming101 wrote 1 year ago: I made the decision to buy day-old chicks instead of older pullets or laying hens. Why? Simple math: … more →
growing fancy: quinoa
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farming101 wrote 1 year ago: It’s not something I ever would have thought of growing myself. But when Emmett and I were wwo … more →
the amazing maize technique
farming101 wrote 1 year ago: A man named Enrique taught us this trick for planting corn. Previously, we’d just planted it, … more →
the fate of the squash
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farming101 wrote 1 year ago: The squash are our hope for the future: we have hundreds and hundreds of them planted. Delicata, aco … more →
life (& death?) on the farm
farming101 wrote 1 year ago: Farming is about to get a whole lot scarier. Today, I ordered 27 day-old chicks from Belt Hatchery t … more →
