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Month: March 2009

One-horse farming

Sun, Apr 03, 2016Sat, Mar 07, 2009
Conall and Dixie

Conall‘s winter job this year is cutting firewood on Canada’s east coast (Nova Scotia), in partnership with his trusty workhorse, Dixie. It sounds pretty intense. He started tiny farming from scratch two seasons ago, our first full-season full-timer, way back …

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Categories Animals, People

The great WARM outdoors!

Wed, Mar 11, 2009Fri, Mar 06, 2009

Ahhh, yes, THIS is what warm weather feels like! For the first time this year, the temperature topped 60°F (15°C), with a hazy sun and a gentle breeze. We’ve had some melt-off days already, but this one tastes like spring! …

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Categories Building & Fixing, Fieldwork, Planning, Tools, Weather

Lead bean, Part 2

Mon, Mar 09, 2009Tue, Mar 03, 2009

I ended up putting the sprouted fava beans in a pan of water, instead of discarding them after the mini-germination test, and put the pan on a south-facing windowsill. A few days ago, a little natural selection happened: the pan …

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Categories Farm lab (research!), Veggies

Last-frost countdown begins!

Sat, Mar 07, 2009Sun, Mar 01, 2009

Today I marked the official farming wall calendar with the weekly weeks-to-transplant countdown:  11, 10, 9,… I do this every year, and usually a lot earlier than this! Because so much is kinda, well, UNKNOWN this growing season as far …

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Categories Planning, Seed starting, Weather
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