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Monthly Archives: January 2008
Iced Kale
Well we all run out of produce from time to time. Which we did. So I conveniently have a field full of overwintering produce. Overwintering….that means sitting there until the spring when it grows again? Well not necessarily. We have … Continue reading
Soilblocks aplenty
It’s that time of the winter when I have to force myself (with the aid of Melanie) to get out there and start making soil blocks again. Considering that we can’t plant the seed without them, I generally leave myself … Continue reading
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Why we have a hard time competing with California Veggie Prices
This is how spinach is harvested. According to this article written 2 years back, this machine can harvest 20,000 pounds an hour. That’s pretty incredible. It’s hard to not want to take my harvest knife and throw it in the … Continue reading
Whole Foods Makes a Leap
Looks like Whole Foods is changing their bag policy too. Check it out at Treehugger
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Chasing the weather
It’s gonna be a close one. I’ve been watching the weather over the last week hoping that it would dry out enough, that I can get into the first section of the new field to get some disking done. It’s … Continue reading
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Pictures
Still Working on getting pictures sized right to upload. No photoshop makes Chris a dull boy. But I’ll get some pictures up soon and hopefully a sidebar photo badge from Zooomr. I have to see if they offer one first. … Continue reading
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Cool idea from Brighter Planet
Well Twitter has come through again for me. My friend Marshall Kirkpatrick just wrote up a quick article on what the folks over at Brighter Planet are doing. Kind of cool. Like Marshall says, “BrighterPlant is a for-profit corporation, but … Continue reading
Seed ordering time!
We’ve ordered most of our seed for the 2008 season. It’s always exciting to get the seed order in. Makes you feel like the season is inevitable. We try a couple of new seed sources every year. Some of them … Continue reading
First Seeds of 2008
Today I tromped out into the rain/snow and made up the first mix of soilmix for 2008. A double batch to plant 30 flats (120 plants per flat) of salad mix that will go into our 30 by 100 foot … Continue reading
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Cool comment on old blog
Received this comment today over on the old blog : I hope this doesn’t seem strange but I was doing some research on the meaning of baby names & my name on google, and your blog popped up. My parents … Continue reading →