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So, thanks to a great post at Civil Eats about Petaluma, CA, I became aware of a tool called a “short hoe.” Short-handled Hoe Stolen shamelessly from the Smithsonian. The short hoe is a particularly brutal piece of equipment that forces a farm worker to bend double in order to use it for [...] …but Mighty God King [You may safely assume that all links contain swears and off-color humor] a blog that’s primarily about comic books, jokes about bad science fiction and an unhealthy obsession with Rex the Wonder Dog has published a short essay on sustainable agriculture and responsible meat consumption. drivingrex2 My dog did [...] We got an email off a farming list the other day stating that a nearby greenhouse owner was moving and she was having a greenhouse sale of all the now-superfluous equipment. So I fired the truck up and went to see if I could find a bargain. I managed to pick up: A 55-gallon [...] NOAA’s Weather Forecast February 2012 Important Update!! Tom Johns, the owner of Territorial Seed, commented on this post (see below) to let us know that as of the 2012 catalog, Territorial is no longer carrying any Seminis products. We confirmed this by emailing Territorial’s customer service and they verified it. Great news! Since it’s apparently politics week [...] It’s getting brighter. Slowly. And the snow is starting to melt and maybe the hoophouses will uncollapse and the poultry will get to go outside and play. In the meantime, please enjoy the following reminders of summer, when you could wear shorts and dig potatoes out of warm dirt. Hello potatoes! Handfuls of [...] 1 (one) Combination brush hook/zombie pacification device 3 (three) six foot lengths of rebar 5 (five) seed starting trays 1 (one) tow rope 3 (three) 25 kg bags of organic layer mash 1 (one) 50# bag of diatomaceous earth It seems like an interesting life, doesn’t it? It’s dark now (at four-freakin’-thirty) but I’ll [...] We hosted Thanksgiving on Thursday for my mom and her husband and two friends of ours from Seattle and Port Hadlock. We had: Turkey from Olympic Pastured Poultry SMASHYpotato (Lauren’s name) Buttermilk biscuits with homemade buttermilk Glazed carrots Green salad with pomegranate dressing from Butler Greens Stuffing from our friend Skip. Some sort of [...] Except, you know, I don’t think it was actually a killing frost. I love the pacific northwest. There is also this potential guide to our being less utterly flawed. I’ve been wrong before, of course. We also had our first frost of the year. The ducks ended up on the porch of the shop [...] We pasture our chickens with a combination of a chicken tractor and electric mesh fencing. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to get a good charge on the fence and, in combination with the dogs being friendly with the chickens and keeping predators down, we don’t turn the electric fence on. It’s just a big [...] So the other day the girls laid only a single egg. It was bizarre. Then, the day after, we got five eggs. We normally get between three and six eggs per day, so having an egg-free day out of the blue was kind of bizarre. Everything seems to be back to normal. I guess [...] So it turns out that I deeply, deeply love preparing seedbeds. I love double-digging and broadforking and cultivating soil. An I love creating a nice, smooth, enriched bed to plant starts in. It’s as satisfying to me as sweeping a concrete floor. And I love sweeping concrete floors. Here’s most of the former tomato [...] |
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