I got a little nervous yesterday. Several seed catalogs have arrived at our house and I was worried that we needed to get our act together and figure out what we need to order. Thank goodness for this blog! According to our entries, we put in our seed order in early March last year, so […]
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I have a long list of books to read over the winter. My plan is to make a post about each and every one. I’ll be the first to admit I’m way better at farming than writing, but how do ya get better but practice …. First book on the list was The Dirty Life […]
We are back to farm planning in earnest and have added a number of projects and experiments we plan to try next season. Our biggest item involves building a greenhouse! Based on rough calculations, we plan to build a 24′ long x 12′ wide x 6′ high greenhouse. Estimated materials costs will be about $400, […]
Now that we have some time to reflect on the season, we thought it might be helpful to share some of the lessons we learned from our first season of urban market gardening. In no particular order, we give you our lessons learned….likely to grow as we continue to plan. Making compost: Don’t get me […]
Greetings, we are looking ahead to next season and would love your input. If you participated in our CSA, visited us at the market, or are a potential customer, we welcome your suggestions! Please take a minute to give us your thoughts. Thanks again for supporting local farms! Bay Branch Farm 2010 Survey
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Nov
Nov
This weekend we decided to be done for the season. We still have produce in the ground, and we plan to harvest what we can and have given away some veggies to family, friends and loyal customers, but we are also tired and ready to move into planning mode for next season. We learned a […]
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Nov
Nov
This year we are planting winter rye as our cover crop. Why rye, you ask? Well, let’s back up and talk about the importance of cover crops, in general. Planting a cover crop is a great way to add organic matter to soil. It also helps break up clay soils to help with drainage and […]
It’s Halloween and the scariest thing we could think to do is plant garlic! Today we planted 4 raised beds of garlic that each hold about 200 cloves. This is double last year’s production and the majority of what we planted came from garlic we actually grew last year. To plant garlic, you break apart […]
In only 2 beds, we managed to get a whole bunch of potatoes. I’m not sure if the weight is accurate since our scale is broken, but that is a guesstimate of just how many potatoes we were able to harvest. Check out the brief video below….
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Sep
Sep
The potatoes are finally ready for harvest and so are the leeks. That can only mean one thing – vichyssoise for dinner! Or leek potato soup for those of us who can’t spell, let alone pronounce the French (I think) word. Anyway, here’s how I make it, but as long as you have some mixture […]