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50 Things I’ve Learned from Tiny Farming: #38 Use a pencil

1 Mar 201627 Nov 2013 by Mike (tfb)
50 Things I've Leaned from Tiny Farming: #38

See the growing list of 50 Things I’ve Learned from Tiny Farming:

#38 – Use a pencil: You can find no finer quick-planning and sketching technology than the PENCIL, used with a crisp sheet of paper, a supporting clipboard, and … Read the rest

Categories Farm lab (research!), Planning, Tools Tags projects, planning, 50 Things Leave a comment

Enter the Riot Garden

10 Dec 202117 Jun 2013 by Mike (tfb)
Tending the Riot Garden

Tried this a couple of times before, to varying degrees of success, a small garden within the market garden, a kinda test/demo back yard-sized plot. One year, it was an elaborate set-up we called Home Garden, masterminded by Shannon: after … Read the rest

Categories Grow your own, Farm lab (research!), People, Fieldwork Tags projects, Ashley, Spring 3 Comments

Chicken Tractor: The Book

19 Apr 202218 Feb 2011 by Mike (tfb)
Chicken Tractor book

CHICKEN TRACTOR! My book-of-the-moment, a happy find at the municipal library (thanks to Kendall, I rediscovered LIBRARIES a couple of months ago—haven’t held a library card since school days, long, long ago).

The chicken tractor concept is simple, and it’s … Read the rest

Categories Farm lab (research!), Planning, Animals, Tools Tags chickens, chickenhouse, projects, Winter 17 Comments

Extending the chickenhouse

27 Jun 200921 Jun 2009 by Mike (tfb)

First day of summer, and the day before the arrival of 25 20-week-old, ready-to-lay Shaver Red Sex Link CHICKENS. Clearly, time to begin building out their new home. It shouldn’t take too long! :) Working on and off through the … Read the rest

Categories Animals, Tools, Building & Fixing Tags projects, chickens, chickenhouse, carpentry, lumber, Summer, Winter 6 Comments

Fully enclosed, at last

13 Feb 20098 Feb 2009 by Mike (tfb)

A 10-hour day with Bob, and plywood is up on the four walls of the new seedling room. It’s rough work, with an uneven floor and really uneven joists to cut around, either spend forever measuring and marking, or recut … Read the rest

Categories People, Tools, Building & Fixing Tags projects, Bob, seedling room, Winter 1 Comment

New seedling room: getting there!

29 Jan 200925 Jan 2009 by Mike (tfb)

It’s slow and steady with the new seedling room. I’ve only managed to commute to the new farm for one or two days a week this month. It’s a little frustrating, watching the time go by, but I guess it’s … Read the rest

Categories Building & Fixing Tags carpentry, projects, heating, Winter 7 Comments

Tiny farming in January

20 Jan 200918 Jan 2009 by Mike (tfb)

If I happened to be looking for monthly tiny farming themes, this particular January is clearly all about chickens and tools (and thinking about stuff!). It’s not the usual January routine around here. Normally, I’d be hanging the lights back … Read the rest

Categories Tools, Building & Fixing Tags carpentry, projects, routines, Winter 3 Comments
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