Bare Root Fruit – 2011
In our recent Scion Exchange post, I mentioned that we were adding some different apple and crab apple varieties to the orchard. It will be a while before the grafted scions will be ready to plant out in the orchard though. In the meantime we’ve been adding...
Scion Exchange
We’ve been looking forward to this year’s California Rare Fruit Growers (CRFG) Scion Exchange in the hopes of adding some more unique fruits to our orchard. Sourcing unique, or older heirloom varieties of fruit however can be difficult, but not if you...
Weather Watching
The weather will always be there, whether we’re watching the weather or not, but as we’re both self-professed geeks, watching the weather here usually involves more than simply catching the (albeit often less than accurate) forecast on the morning news....
Pear Sawfly
This weekend the weather couldn’t have been more perfect. Now that all the poultry projects are complete we turned our attention back toward the orchard. We still have a lot of work to do. The most important task is wrapping up our never-ending irrigation...
Oh Deer, Not AGAIN
Our deer win the award for persistence! In our prior post we were lamenting the fact that despite our best efforts this winter, the local cervids have out-smarted us. A 7-foot perimeter fence around the orchard and gardens proved that it wasn’t sufficient to...
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