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 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 [...]
Posted in Growing Goodies, Real Time Farms blog on April 10, 2013
I envision this series might be a long lived one. I am embarking on a project that to some people on this planet might seem ridiculous (because they are already doing it and they grew up doing it), to some absurd (because they would rather not be doing it), and to some dirty (because, well, [...]
