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New year, new farm!

14 Jan 20091 Jan 2009 by Mike (tfb)

It’s a new day rising in a new year, perfect timing for Tiny Farm Blog to officially become a tale of TWO (tiny) farms: where I started out on this surprise growing adventure six seasons ago, and what comes next. … Read the rest

Categories Planning Tags unexpected, unusual, Winter 16 Comments

Hail damage reassessed

7 May 201329 Jul 2008 by Mike (tfb)

Three days after the nasty hail storm, and the full extent of the crop damage is more evident. It’s quite a bit worse than it first appeared. The plants will bounce back, but we’ve lost a lot of the fruit … Read the rest

Categories Farm lab (research!), Fieldwork, Veggies, Weather Tags eggplant, hail, peppers, Summer, tomato, unexpected, unusual 2 Comments

Three minutes of mayhem

7 May 201326 Jul 2008 by Mike (tfb)

What at first seemed like a mild three-minute hail storm this afternoon did an impressive amount of crop damage right across the market garden. One of those sudden, short storms that’ve been popping up more or less several times a … Read the rest

Categories Veggies, Weather Tags beet, crop damage, storm, Summer, summer squash, tomato, unexpected, unusual, waiting, winter squash 5 Comments

The Endless Salad…

10 Nov 201310 Jun 2008 by Mike (tfb)

Lunch has turned into a collaborative cooking affair, built around the near-infinite possibilities of the Endless SALAD. Everyone who’s around pitches in: here, Lynn and Melissa chop. We build it from what’s available in the field, plus supplies from the … Read the rest

Categories Cooking & Eating, Local food, People, Veggies Tags cooking, experiments, Lynn, Raechelle, Spring, unexpected 7 Comments

What I’m not up to…

9 Apr 201221 May 2008 by Mike (tfb)
Pesticide fill-up

Don’t know who that is in the photo…it’s not me! I last posted this image—I found it online; I think it’s public domain; he’s loading up a herbicide called alachlor—in an October, 2007 post, And now for something completely different… … Read the rest

Categories People Tags Spring, unexpected 15 Comments
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