Farm Beginnings: Chipping Mulch
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...
View ArticleFarm Beginnings: Inoculating Logs with Mushrooms
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. Inoculating logs with mushrooms is...
View ArticleLet Transition Challenge Month Begin!!
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...
View ArticleFarm Beginnings: Farming Trees for the Wood Stove
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...
View ArticleFarm Beginnings: We Farm because Seeds Grow
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...
View ArticleFarm Beginnings: Boxwood; Loving What the Deer Don’t
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...
View ArticleFarm Beginnings: Bacchanalian Burn Bonanza
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...
View ArticleFarm Beginnings: In Awe of House Builders
People keep telling us that building our farmhouse is going to break up our marriage. I can certainly see why. Just when you think you are finished with your day – errands and jobs and family drama and...
View Article10 Reasons to Celebrate National Farmers Market Week, from American Farmland...
10 Reasons to Celebrate National Farmers Market Week! It’s local community coming together to support and nurture each other and the earth we live on. ~ says Tomi from Homer NY. For every $10 spent on...
View ArticleFarm Beginnings: The End of the Beginnings for Sweet Showers Farm
This is my last posting about Farm Beginnings because I feel we have passed by the Beginnings part and are onto the beginning of the Doing part. The Doing part, as you know, is the steady pace learning...
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