Category: Microfarm
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How to Attract Beneficial Insects
Attracting beneficial insects is simple. Plant flowers! Lot’s of them, everywhere, of all different kinds. Here is a lady beetle on a daisy flower in our garden. And if you…
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The Best Time to Plant a (Fruit) Tree
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. — Chinese Proverb We planted a Red Gold Nectarine and a Summer Crisp…
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Phone Book Spawn
Here’s an experiment that I’m toying with after finding years and years of old phone books lying around our office space. True, there are phone book recycling services, but I…
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Oyster Mushroom Production
Producing oyster mushrooms in our small, urban farm has proven a rewarding experience. The above photo was taken several weeks after inoculation into freshly cut elm logs. Inoculation was done…
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Pickled Radishes Part II
Almost two years ago, I wrote about an attempt to pickle radishes just by slicing them and putting them, mixed with the brine, in a Clausen pickle jar. Recently, on…
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Fallen Fruit and Apricot Jam
Here is a picture of the apricot jam I made just yesterday. Apricots produces beautifully in New Mexico, but once harvested, they spoil quickly, so the fruit-picker has to think…
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Building Healthy Soils
As I mentioned several weeks ago, we are in the process of rebuilding our soil fertility in our garden. One great service that I will personally attest to is that…
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Return to the United States
I am back in the United States, having left Bolivia almost a week and half ago. There are many things in the Bolivian sphere I could comment on, but I…
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Bean Harvest ’07
It’s a modest harvest, to be sure, but the significance for us as a family is still profound. And this is for a few reasons. First, this is a variety…
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Summer Break
I’ve been out of the blogging world for way too long now. I go through those periods where I just don’t feel like blogging much, but inevitably I start to…
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