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Archive for June 1st, 2011
While we never kept chickens when we lived in town, our neighbor did. She had 3 blue lace wyandottes named Mary, Kate and Ashley (don’t you just love my neighbor already). Unfortunately, Ashley would always go broody – staying in the nesting box all day, getting aggressive when you’d try and collect eggs, you get [...]
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- I'm pretty sure we had a low of 67°F a few nights ago. It is 36 now!
- Like I say, Red Row Farm gets the greatest WWOOFers!
- Too much weeding, I think someone is losing it! Ha ha!
Will’s Take on the Farm
- A catch up letter to good friend and former farm helper Jon. September 5, 2011Dear Jon, I will never have someone to help me down here on the farm that worked as hard or was as much fun to work with as you were. We rocked almost an acre of produce with just the two of us and a few hoes… A single plowing from a tractor, a couple of […]
- Garden Journal #3 August 3, 2011Things to remember for next years Spring and Summer planting. The Golden rule: thin more, seed less. I need a better Tomato trellis system, the post and cord method was fine but not great, I will try to make some cages, which is my favorite method but costly, I will also try a post and fence […]
- Garden Journal Entry#2 April 19, 20114/20/11 Today I finished planting the first of three rows in what we are calling the Pond Field which is about a quarter of an acre. Near the South end of this field I created another bed of 6 rows in which I planted English Peas, Radishes, Spinach, Kale, Arugula and Romaine. This is a partly shady […]