Comments on: Trying fall rye http://tinyfarmblog.com/2007/09/13/trying-fall-rye/ Daily photo-journal of organic market gardening: growing local food with two acres and some tools...! Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:43:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Mike (tfb) http://tinyfarmblog.com/2007/09/13/trying-fall-rye/#comment-2330 Mike (tfb) Sun, 23 Sep 2007 14:01:29 +0000 http://tinyfarmblog.com/2007/09/13/trying-fall-rye/#comment-2330 Hey Hineini: Starting your microfarm—that's cool! I started pretty much from scratch, mainly by reading books and stuff online, calling people up on the phone with questions, and trying stuff out in the field. I had no clue about veggie gardening, so if you're already a gardener, you're half-set! :) The rest IMO is about keeping everything moving ahead at an even pace, without getting yourself in debt! Of course, there's succession planting in the garden, but also keeping your equipment needs, resources, marketing outlets and the like all kinda synchronized. Like, it'd be obviously a bit of problem to have grown way more of a crop than you can sell (at a direct consumer rate!), or start and transplant a whole lot of something that you don't have the gear to irrigate if rain gets tight. And so forth. Start with a simple, logical, comprehensive plan that goes from seed to sale... You're never too tiny to plan! All common sense stuff. Overall, the unfarmer-like phrase that comes to mind is...good orchestration! ;) Resources... A great organic microfarming/market gardening first book (the "standard") is Eliot Coleman's <em>The New Organic Grower</em>. This winter, I hope to put more start-up stuff here on TFB in the side pages: links, books, from my humble experience, whatever. Also, the few tiny farming blogs I've had time to check out and really like are in the sidebar! It'll be...FUN! Hey Hineini: Starting your microfarm—that’s cool! I started pretty much from scratch, mainly by reading books and stuff online, calling people up on the phone with questions, and trying stuff out in the field. I had no clue about veggie gardening, so if you’re already a gardener, you’re half-set! :) The rest IMO is about keeping everything moving ahead at an even pace, without getting yourself in debt! Of course, there’s succession planting in the garden, but also keeping your equipment needs, resources, marketing outlets and the like all kinda synchronized. Like, it’d be obviously a bit of problem to have grown way more of a crop than you can sell (at a direct consumer rate!), or start and transplant a whole lot of something that you don’t have the gear to irrigate if rain gets tight. And so forth. Start with a simple, logical, comprehensive plan that goes from seed to sale… You’re never too tiny to plan! All common sense stuff. Overall, the unfarmer-like phrase that comes to mind is…good orchestration! ;)

Resources… A great organic microfarming/market gardening first book (the “standard”) is Eliot Coleman’s The New Organic Grower. This winter, I hope to put more start-up stuff here on TFB in the side pages: links, books, from my humble experience, whatever. Also, the few tiny farming blogs I’ve had time to check out and really like are in the sidebar!

It’ll be…FUN!

]]> By: Hineini http://tinyfarmblog.com/2007/09/13/trying-fall-rye/#comment-2268 Hineini Fri, 21 Sep 2007 02:16:58 +0000 http://tinyfarmblog.com/2007/09/13/trying-fall-rye/#comment-2268 Hey there - I am so happy to find your blog! I am looking into buying some property to start my own microfarm here in the Hudson Valley (New York) and I've been looking for resources, info and networking relating to getting started in small-scale farming. What a fabulous site - Let me know if you have any recommended reading or ideas in terms of getting started in microfarming with very little farming experience (but a good bit of vegetable gardening experience). Thanks for providing this resource - It reminds me how much I want to do this. I just bought rye today for the first time, btw, to sow over my vegetable beds as soon as the fall harvest is done. Hey there - I am so happy to find your blog! I am looking into buying some property to start my own microfarm here in the Hudson Valley (New York) and I’ve been looking for resources, info and networking relating to getting started in small-scale farming. What a fabulous site - Let me know if you have any recommended reading or ideas in terms of getting started in microfarming with very little farming experience (but a good bit of vegetable gardening experience). Thanks for providing this resource - It reminds me how much I want to do this. I just bought rye today for the first time, btw, to sow over my vegetable beds as soon as the fall harvest is done.

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