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I finally (a bit late) nailed down details for the crop planning workshop I coordinated (sort of). Here they are! You should come, and bring everyone! Using spreadsheets for crop planning Workshop led by Josh Volk, Portland farmer http://www.slowhandfarm.com When Sunday, January 30 10am – 1pm Stay after for a potluck lunch! Where [...] [...] First the good news! We’ve been getting back in to the swing of things gradually (or abruptly in some cases — when the baby chicks show up at the post office, you’d better be ready!). We’ve gotten rehabituated to the morning routine of opening the greenhouse, watering seedlings, and gathering eggs, and I’m doing [...] Yesterday we spent the day preparing to have mushrooms in the fall. Friends Joanna (who interned at a farm out here last summer) and Jacob came out for the day, bearing safety gear and two giant bags of plugs (basically dowels) inoculated with shiitake mushroom spores from Fungi Perfecti. Plug Spawn! The first step [...] We’ve been reviewing our successes and not-so-much-successes from last year, and our resources for this year (including personal levels of energy and time available, as well as space), and making some decisions about when and what and how. One thing we know: we’re not going to grow produce for sale this year. We’ll [...] Diagonal dinner (halibut cheek with asparagus, garlic scapes, and fresh garden peas), originally uploaded by laurenipsum. In a hot pan with bacon grease, started before the fish went on, went minced shallot and sliced asparagus and garlic scapes. We put the fat asparagus stalk segments in first, to get more cooking time [...] Here are some things that are new this year! Blueberries are … berrying, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. This year we are allowed to let our blueberries set fruit. We won’t get much, but I’m excited! The Wyandottes are learning about the world, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. Our Wyandottes are fifteen [...] I have been taken to task by more than one person for the lack of duckling photos. So here are some ducklings! Most of the photos have notes in Flickr — click through and mouse over the photo to see them. This little girl arrived with her egg tooth still attached, [...] Asparagus!, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. The asparagus is coming up! We won’t have very many spears, but I didn’t think any would come back at all after the multiple sessions of scratching the chickens gave the asparagus plot. So I am happy to see these little [...] We have been meaning to write about this for a while, and today friend and blog-reader Melinda provided the impetus when she emailed to ask how our hoophouses are constructed. I know they are working with a raised bed, so I took some photos to illustrate how we have ours set up! It [...] It’s April, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. 1. Tomato seedlings (we’re behind), 2. Swirly egg and speckly egg, 3. QUACK, 4. Garlic and mustard greens, 5. Impending artichoke, 6. When we pulled back the sheet on this hoophouse, it was like opening a present Created with fd’s Flickr [...] |
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