Blogs about: Microfarming

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New Website For Our Microfarm

thirstyman wrote 6 months ago: We wanted to let everyone know that as of today we’ve migrated our microfarm blog to our own d … more →

Trash Can Heater

thirstyman wrote 6 months ago: Even when our outside temperatures only get into the 40′s, it’s easily in the 70′s … more →

Tags: hoophouses, Permaculture, Four Season Harvest, Garden, garden farming, gardening, hoophouse, microfarming, organic garden farming

Late Fall Salad Harvest

thirstyman wrote 7 months ago: This is the first year we’ve enjoyed having a hoophouse in which to grow our garden plants. I … more →

Tags: hoophouses, Four Season Harvest, Garden, garden farming, hoophouse, microfarming, organic garden farming, permaculture

HOUSE NEWS: Welcoming Gloria and Clayton, starting scripture study, CIW in town, and more!

gvillecw wrote 9 months ago: Click here to see an entire list of what is happening this week at the Gainesville Catholic Worker. … more →

Tags: House News, CIW, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Gospel of Luke, centering prayer, urban farming, Gainesville Interfaith Alliance for Immigrant Justice

HOUSE NEWS: Notes from the Camino, Art for All re-start, and giving thanks for Herb1 comment

gvillecw wrote 9 months ago: Click here to see an entire list of what is happening this week at the Gainesville Catholic Worker. … more →

Tags: House News, roundtable, Catholic Worker, Kelli Brew, catholic worker roundtable, art for all, urban farms, Camino de Santiago, Herb Bazur

Lasagne Gardening1 comment

thirstyman wrote 10 months ago: No, I’m not planting lasagne in the garden, but I am trying to prepare a bed for our 2013 hoop … more →

Tags: Permaculture, garden farming, gardening, lasagne gardening, permaculture

Hoophouses - our first year

thirstyman wrote 10 months ago: After several years of indecision about building a hoophouse, I finally overcame the intimidation of … more →

Tags: hoophouses, Cucumbers, garden farming, gardening, hoophouses, microfarming, permaculture, Self-Reliance

A Day in the Life of a Microfarmer6 comments

Diana wrote 10 months ago: That photo on the left is me after digging potatoes during a heatwave in June. But this year, when h … more →

Tags: farming, Small Farms, new farmers, pastured poultry, virginia farms, Free range chicken, Christian Agrarian, organic farming, Homesteading

{scaling up the northeast grain system} The Harvest3 comments

Amy Halloran wrote 11 months ago: The Wheat is Ready If it weren’t for my friend Howard, my wheat would still be in the field. When I … more →

Tags: farming, Grains, Homesteading, Amy Halloran, Breuckelen Distillery, Farmer Ground Flour, Food, gardening, Grain Production

Start a 1-Acre, Self-Sufficient Homestead

JohnBrian wrote 1 year ago: Article Excerpt: “Everyone will have a different approach to keeping a self-sufficient homeste … more →

Tags: Describing a Self-Sustaining Micro-Farming Community, Design Criterion and Assessment, Trends and Confluences Supporting the Design/Building o, Collaboration, Community Development, Community Garden, farming, Future Trends, Homesteading

New Yorkers branch into ‘beyond organic’ urban fish farming (Another example of Urban-Homesteading and support for emergent sustainable-Ag lifestyle)

JohnBrian wrote 1 year ago: So you recycle, drive a small car, and try to eat organic. But what about running an eco-sustainable … more →

Tags: Trends and Confluences Supporting the Design/Building o, aqua-farming, Aquaculture, Aquaponics, bronz, city, eco / sustainable, fish farming, Future Trends

Time to get growing

Rebekah wrote 1 year ago: It’s as if the universe, in all of her majesty, somehow knows that a) it is my birthday (week) … more →

Tags: Growing, sustainability, Environment, Advocacy, Locavorism, Waltham Fields Community Farm, Planning, Learning Garden, spring

Where I'll be farming

farmerdel wrote 1 year ago: This is an aerial view of the Micro-Farm plot. The Large Plot (Plot A) is approximately 160ft X65ft … more →

Tags: Urban, farming, Plot, Lot

Texas Wild Blackberries (Dewberries)

mamashara wrote 1 year ago: There is blackberry cane growing wild all over our land here in central Texas, and it is extremely h … more →

Tags: Farm 101, Homeschooling, Herbs etc., Organic Gardening, Texas Gardening, gardening with children, Texas blackberries, Texas dewberries, dr. seuss week

15 The Clucks in Their Theatrical Debut

April Hayman wrote 1 year ago: I’ll be posting more about our chickens and other homeschooling activities over at my YouTube … more →

Tags: Nature Study, YouTube, Chickens, Poultry, Education, Homeschooling Activities, Www Youtube

14 A Cluck Cluck Here, A Cluck Cluck There

April Hayman wrote 1 year ago: Everywhere a cluck cluck. Our Chicken Coop (aka Le Maison de Poulet) About two weeks ago we received … more →

Tags: Homeschool, microfarming, Chicken, Feathers, Nature Study, cluck cluck, building a chicken coop, Handbook of nature study, Contour Feather

Digging In & Putting Up in 2012: Part I3 comments

Rebekah wrote 1 year ago: My, how quickly we move from one season to the next. It seems like just last week I was picking big, … more →

Tags: Growing, sustainability, Locavorism, Waltham Fields Community Farm, Planning, Education, Green Rows of Waltham, Seeds, Johnny;s Selected Seeds

HOUSE NEWS: Art for All is back! And our first monthly workday at the micro-farm!

gvillecw wrote 1 year ago: Click here to see an entire list of what is happening this week at the Gainesville Catholic Worker. … more →

Tags: House News, The Gospel of Matthew, art for all, jade Allen, Magi

HOUSE NEWS: First Thursday Roundtable with GCW legend Dave Chynoweth this week, and more!

gvillecw wrote 1 year ago: Click here to see an entire list of what is happening this week at the Gainesville Catholic Worker. … more →

Tags: House News, The Gospel of Matthew, sustainability, Dave Chynoweth, simplicity, spirituality, Downsizing Your Life


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