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 [...]
Posted in On Earth..., Real Time Farms blog on May 2, 2013
Transition Challenge Month, yup. Brought to you by the Transition United States, yup. Clearer now? Until I was asked to teach a Backyard Chicken class for a Reskilling Festival co-hosted by Transition Ann Arbor, I did not know either. Nor had I heard the phrases “peak oil” or “energy descent.” But in my humble opinion, the Transition movement is awesome. [...]
Posted in Growing Goodies, Real Time Farms blog on May 1, 2013
Farm Beginnings is the chronicle of a city girl starting to farm. Last installment Corinna spoke of mulch. Today she speaks of inoculating logs with fungus plugs. Innoculating logs with mushrooms is like playing Wack-a-Mole, immensely satisfying on a visceral level. Also on a visceral level, like so many of perks that have to do [...]
Posted in Growing Goodies, Real Time Farms blog on April 24, 2013
Farm Beginnings is the chronicle of a city girl starting to farm. Last installment Corinna spoke of clearing the land of trees. Today she speaks to chipping your own mulch. I learned the difference between “gym fit” and “farm fit” this weekend. I am barely gym fit and I am nowhere near farm fit. Imagine [...]
Posted in Growing Goodies, Real Time Farms blog on April 17, 2013
Farm Beginnings is the chronicle of a city girl pulled into farming. Last installment Corinna spoke of the why that brought her to farming. Today she speaks to clearing the land of trees. “I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees… which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please.” That is [...]
