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Bee Home
We’ve wanted bees on the farm since the very beginning. Besides the obvious tastiness of local honey, we thought it would be helpful to the entire system to have the extra pollination. Farmer Leon next door agreed, and encouraged us … Continue reading
Planting trees
We’re getting down to the wire, but it now looks like we’ll get the orchard into the ground before the ideal tree planting season is past. We’d originally planned on planting 28 trees of several different types, but a few … Continue reading
Sawdust
After an unexpectedly long break due to a death in the family, we’re back at it. Today we received a DUMPTRUCK load of sawdust to mulch the blueberries. Normally, one wouldn’t use sawdust as mulch, because it has little nutritive … Continue reading
What’s all the buzz about?
Bees, of course! Emily and I are really interested in having bees on the farm, to better pollenate all the plants and to maybe even give us some honey. Last month we were introduced to Terry, the local beekeeping expert, … Continue reading
Trees to plant
It’s tree planting month! A few friends have approached me in the last few weeks about sponsoring a tree or two in the orchard, and this got me thinking that there might be others out there who would be interested … Continue reading
The blueberries are planted
The weather, schedule, and several other factors finally aligned yesterday and we were able to plant the blueberry patch. I’m more excited about blueberries than anything else we’re going to plant this year, for a lot of reasons. First off, … Continue reading
The local community
Moving to a new place can be hard- making friends, finding out what’s going on, getting involved. We really lucked out in this area… while we’re working away to get the farm started, we’ve come across a zillion other fantastic … Continue reading
Test results are in
Soil sample results are in. After some consultation with the extensionist, it looks like we’re OK for the most part. Most elements are within tolerance. I’m going to have to spread Borax to increase the boron level (and get good … Continue reading
Mechanical Muscle
The really environmental purists frown on using diesel to get work done on a sustainable farm, but sometimes, it’s just too practical. The site where we’re going to plant the orchard is in pretty rough shape; it was logged several … Continue reading
Soil samples
Today I took soils samples to send to the lab. I really don’t know a lot about it, so I had a meeting with the OSU extensionist a few weeks back. She was very helpful, and began by telling me … Continue reading