Pollinator Week: The Hazards Of Pollination
I wrote a post for Pollinator Week last year, highlighting the diversity of species we find here on the farm. I didn’t plan to write another post this year, but this week I feel compelled to. Before I get to my point, first I want you to imagine you’re a...
While the Farmer’s Away…
I once posted about the plight of the Pacific Madrone trees on the property. Many of the trees in our woodland areas are weak and diseased as a direct result of decades of poor land and forest management. This last weekend, while attending our first dairy goat show of...
April Garden Update: A Sizzling Spring
The weather so far this year has been gorgeous. Although brisk in January and February, daytime temperatures have been quite warm for a number of weeks now, and we’ve had so little rain since January 1st (our driest start to the year on record), that winter is...
February Garden Update: An Erratic Winter
It would be fair to say that this winter our weather has been all over the place. We’ve gone from one deluge-of-a-rainstorm after another, in November and December, to an almost total lack of rain since the New Year. Cold overnight temperatures in the mid-20s...
Mid-Winter Cleanup: The Strawberry Bed
I have a fondness for strawberries. I still remember, as a very small child, when I was given my first piece of garden to tend. It was all mine, to do anything I wanted with, and I didn’t have to share. In addition to the garden bed, I was gifted a dozen...
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