MAJOR upgrade to our CSA signup!
Do you remember when you used to sign up for our CSA through a Google form? All of those entries were compiled in a lengthy spreadsheet. I would sort the entries and add the emails manually to a tag on…
Adding 24 MORE goldfish to the pool pond! (Video)
Our first fish order for the pool pond included 40 mosquito fish and 11 shubunkin goldfish. After having so much fun watching them, we wanted more fish, so we ordered 24 more shubunkin goldfish. We now have 35 of them….
Flowers and veggies
The flowers are really starting to bloom! Zinnias and oats. Ara’s first dahlia. Celosia. Marigold. Bachelor’s Button AKA Cornflower. Snapdragons and more in the background. Nasturtiums. Tulsi basil and Genovese basil. The Vego Garden is looking good. All these beds…
First flowers, flipping beds & seeding last crops
Those are the first bouquets for our first ever flower CSA addon! They have sunflowers, zinnias, yarrow, mint, oats and a few other things. Mr. Fangs was hanging out in the flower garden with us where we have this lovely…
Planting summer crops & building trellises
In this post I show how we planted some summer crops and built trellises for them. Let’s begin with this eggplant that we started from seed on February 1. We potted them up in March to buy us more time….
Vego beds & other farm pics
A tree frog climbed onto the arm of Ara’s chair. They are surprisingly friendly! A nice crop of swiss chard for this week’s CSA shares. Carrots ready for harvest. Japanese taro in the bog filter. Worm bin, nasturtiums, tomatoes and…
Planting, harvesting and enjoying the pond
As we harvest and beds open up, we immediately renovate the beds and plant them to new crops. We just planted these lettuces for salad mix where the spinach was. Some head lettuces where the turnips were. Basil and onions…
VIDEO update!
Today’s update comes to you in the form of a video. I walk through most of our production and talk about what’s growing, what’s coming up, what’s being harvested, walk through the flower garden, our new Vego garden and the…
Pool to pond: the bog filter
Can this simple ecological filter keep our pool clean? We’re going to find out! A bog filter (also known as a wetland filter) uses a bed of gravel and plants to filter and clean water. As the water is pumped…
Giant spinach, fake organics and more
I harvested this REAL organic spinach while listening to a great Real Organic Podcast episode about how big corporate entities have corrupted the USDA Organic standards and how “organic” hydroponic berries are being grown and passed off as organic. When…