Farm Journal

#Workshops#Pruning

Monday, March 22, 2021

Yesterday we hosted our second workshop, on grafting fruit trees. Jason Geise taught it, and I think it went really well. I certainly learned a lot. Luckily no one sliced their fingers aside from me …

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#Seed Starting#Pruning#Wild Plants

Saturday, March 20, 2021

On Friday I got serious about making soil blocks. I decided it wasn’t worth the time to start seeds in 3/4” blocks and transplant them, so I’ve gone straight to the 2” blocks. I think I figured out t…

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#Seed Starting

Friday, March 19, 2021

Started messing with soil blocks today, which I plan on starting seeds in. I made up Eliot Coleman’s micro block recipe, which is used for 3/4” blocks primarily to germinate seeds. Then you transplan…

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#Pruning

Thursday, March 18, 2021

Got to work pruning the sprawling pluot at the orchard entrance — this one was tough due to the multitude of crossing branches and the fact that most of the buds and flowers were concentrated near th…

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#Pond#Lilacs

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Started processing the manzanita that were uprooted or broken by the snow over the past week. I still don’t quite understand how it happened. It looks like a big animal uprooted them. But they were s…

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#Pond#Ducks

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Another rainy and snowy day yesterday. The rain tank is holding water now, and that baby is filling up fast with the snowmelt. As is the pond, which nearly filled up overnight. The ducks escaped and…

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#Snow

Sunday, March 14, 2021

No real work got done on the homestead this weekend. We received another dump of snow on Friday, then had farm school on Saturday and a little shindig with the cob oven building crew on Sunday. Peach…

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#Snow

Friday, March 12, 2021

Well, we got around 7” of snow overnight and during the morning. I’ve never seen the trees droop so much. I spent some time pruning, but its hard to prune when you can’t feel your fingers. The snow …

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#Wild Plants#Pruning

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

It was cold and rained slush today — every time I tried to go outside and get to work pruning hail pelted me. So not much got done yesterday. Finished pruning the big overgrown pluot out front — we r…

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#Pruning

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

We finally borrowed an orchard ladder from a neighbor this week, so time to get after it on the pruning front. Even having gone through the pruning class recently, looking at our huge gnarly trees wi…

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