Posted in Growing Goodies, Real Time Farms blog on June 12, 2013
Join us for a Bacchanalian Burn Bonanza! Bacchus is not a controllable god (as you may remember from your Euripides in school) – and neither, it turns out, is fire. My lesson from burning a pile of wood 25 feet wide and 15 feet tall is this – don’t have any guests nearby but do [...]
Posted in On Earth..., Vision on June 10, 2013
I woke up this morning excited, nay wiggly with excitement, because I want to learn all about Biogas generators and put one on our land. I don’t know if it is legal to do so in my county (probably not, considering that you are not allowed to put in a composting toilet in your house), [...]
Posted in Farmers Markets, Real Time Farms blog on June 4, 2013
I Love My Farmers Market Celebration marks the fifth year American Farmland Trust (AFT) has thrown a party for our nation’s farmers markets. They want eaters to pledge dollars we intend to spend at our farmers markets to highlight the pivotal role markets play in keeping farmers on their land. We love this celebration for [...]
Posted in Growing Goodies, Real Time Farms blog on May 30, 2013
Farm Beginnings is the chronicle of a city girl starting to farm. Last installment Corinna spoke to why she farms. Today she speaks of farming with deer and boxwoods. Farming with deer might bring visions of Bambi and all of his cousins running around a field prior to harvest into delicious venison steaks. That is [...]
Posted in Growing Goodies, Real Time Farms blog on May 15, 2013
Farm Beginnings is the chronicle of a city girl starting to farm. Last installment Corinna spoke of farming trees for the wood stove. Today she speaks to why she farms. A few weeks ago I gently tucked tiny black and silver specks into wet soil. I placed plastic covers over the soil, put the flats [...]
Posted in Growing Goodies, Real Time Farms blog on May 8, 2013
Farm Beginnings is the chronicle of a city girl starting to farm. Last installment Corinna spoke of inoculating logs with fungus plugs. Today she speaks of farming trees and splitting firewood. When I think of farming, I think of neat rows of greens interspersed with chickens and a cow in a field or endless rows of [...]
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