Skip to content
  • Home
  • Browse
  • Popular
  • Stories
  • How-to
  • About
Tiny Farm Blog

fertilizing

Pellets of goodness

20 Nov 202330 May 2023 by Mike (tfb)
Alfalfa pellets

One person’s low-interest bin of unidentified golden-brownish stuff, is another’s stash of pelletized alfalfa goodness. This is plain old alfalfa, the plant in the pasture that cows especially love, dried and compressed into pellets. No additives, nothing but dry plant … Read the rest

Categories 2023 from the start, Farm lab (research!), Fieldwork Tags fertilizing, Spring Leave a comment

Building Soils for Better Crops

8 Dec 2011 by Mike (tfb)
Building Soils for Better Crops, 3rd Edition

Had the downloaded digital version of this book since the 2nd edition, for at least a couple of years now, dipped into it, but still haven’t read it through. I should and I will. This winter! The 3rd edition of … Read the rest

Categories Farm lab (research!) Tags books, reference, fertilizing, soil, Autumn 4 Comments

Different kind of compost heap

1 Apr 200930 Mar 2009 by Mike (tfb)

Back to cold and wet, with a bit of snow… Today was an interesting first in my brief tiny farming career: compost on skids! Fertility delivered! How convenient… This is about 5.5  tons (5,000kg) of fully composted, certified organic cow … Read the rest

Categories Farm lab (research!) Tags fertilizing, composting, manure, future, Spring 8 Comments

Hitting the books: Composting!

16 Dec 202122 Feb 2009 by Mike (tfb)
A book about composting

Winters on the tiny farm have always been a time for research and a bit of book learning. My first two seasons were crazy for reading, especially the winter before Year 1, when I had four months to pick up … Read the rest

Categories Farm lab (research!), Planning Tags composting, manure, research, books, fertilizing, Winter 10 Comments

Manure spreading action!

12 Oct 20115 Nov 2007 by Mike (tfb)

A satisfying few hours today, spreading year-old cow manure on the market garden. Bob and the old White 70hp handled the spreader (and you can see a rock picker attached in front!). I used the Kubota compact tractor to fill … Read the rest

Categories People, Fieldwork Tags tractor, fertilizing, manure, Bob, Autumn, Winter 4 Comments

A spot of tea…

12 Oct 201110 Sep 2007 by Mike (tfb)

Steeping compost in water is all it takes to come up with a healthy batch of…compost tea. Here we’ve taken some composted cow manure and let it sit in a 55-gallon barrel of water for a few days. There are … Read the rest

Categories Fieldwork, Tools Tags compost tea, fertilizing, Summer 17 Comments

Compost tea

26 Feb 200715 May 2006 by Mike (tfb)

Here’s something easy that could come as a kit: a compost tea maker. One 55-gallon barrel, one strong, porous bag (this one’s a woven plastic grain sack) full of compost, some heavy twine, a strong stick, and water. Tie the … Read the rest

Categories Fieldwork, Tools Tags fertilizing, seedlings, Spring 1 Comment

2025...

Follow this season of tiny farming from the beginning, with every 2025 post in order, first to latest.

You can also sign up for a photo-of-the-week by email!

~ browse by topic ~

  • 2023 from the start
  • 2024 from the start
  • 2025 from the start
  • Animals
  • Building & Fixing
  • Cooking & Eating
  • CSA
  • Farm lab (research!)
  • Fieldwork
  • Flowers
  • Greenhouse
  • Grow your own
  • Harvest
  • Local food
  • Market & Stand
  • Off-season
  • People
  • Pests & Disease
  • Planning
  • Seed & Seedlings
  • Tools
  • Veggies
  • Weather
  • Wondering

~ browse by year ~

  • 2025: J F M A M J J A S O N D
  • 2024: J F M A M J J A S O N D
  • 2023: J F M A M J J A S O N D
  • 2022: J F M A M J J A S O N D
  • 2021: J F M A M J J A S O N D
  • 2020: J F M A M J J A S O N D
  • 2019: J F M A M J J A S O N D
  • 2018: J F M A M J J A S O N D
  • 2017: J F M A M J J A S O N D
  • 2016: J F M A M J J A S O N D
  • 2015: J F M A M J J A S O N D
  • 2014: J F M A M J J A S O N D
  • 2013: J F M A M J J A S O N D
  • 2012: J F M A M J J A S O N D
  • 2011: J F M A M J J A S O N D
  • 2010: J F M A M J J A S O N D
  • 2009: J F M A M J J A S O N D
  • 2008: J F M A M J J A S O N D
  • 2007: J F M A M J J A S O N D
  • 2006: J F M A M J J A S O N D

~ tiny farm videos ~

Short videos, mostly under 60 seconds, of doing things in the field on the TinyFarmBlog channel.

Terms and Privacy • Contact • 2024 © TinyFarmBlog.com
© 2025 Tiny Farm Blog • Built with GeneratePress

Home

All of 2025

Stories

7 ways to browse
Manage Cookie Consent
To provide the best browsing experience, this site uses technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}