The government refuses to force food manufacturers to list GMOs on their ingredient lists. But if you’re trying to avoid genetically modified food, at least you have the option of growing your own or buying from a local grower whose methods you can observe…or do you? Writer Bonnie Kristian talks […]
Yearly Archives: 2014
25 posts
To feed our wood stove, I’ve been gathering fallen limbs and trees from the forest and bucking them with a miter saw. It takes me about an hour to get enough wood to last us 2-3 days. Then I set a few logs–about enough to fill the stove twice–on top […]
No, those aren’t giant coffee beans. It’s come to my attention that there’s a demand for pawpaw seeds and people are paying outlandish prices for them. One person out in New Albany was selling nine seeds for $4.00, and that’s considered to be the lower end of the going rate […]
The deer, having accidentally ripped through the flimsy deer netting I put up, have figured out that they’re capable of breaking through it, so it’s become useless. Many nights over the past couple weeks, I’ve had to run outside to chase deer out of the garden. Earlier this summer, they’d […]
The green part turned red on this one. There are still a lot of green and purple ones out on the vine waiting to ripen.
The whole family just picked about a bushel and a half of acorn squash. I had done a “Three Sisters” thing with my Glass Gem corn this year, planting squash and corn in alternating rows so the lush foliage of the squash vines would shade out any weeds around the […]
Nice ones: Plenty more where that came from. We have summer squash, too–some with smooth yellow skin, some with bumpy yellow skin and crooked necks, and dark green zucchini. You can buy green tomatoes right off the vine, too, if you’re interested. Come get ’em. info@frijolitofarm.com (614) 390-2692
This is my first year growing Indigo Rose, and I didn’t really know anything about it other than that it’s pretty. I’m a little disappointed the fruits aren’t bigger, but I just read a really interesting article (linked below) by Oregon State University, the developer of this variety. Indigo Rose […]
Here’s what I’ve harvested so far this week (minus what I kept for us to eat), displayed at the Women’s Business Center. There should be more squash in a few days. In maybe another week, we’ll have kale. In another couple of weeks, perhaps, we’ll have collards. There are lots […]
I’ve been without a phone for some weeks now, so I apologize to anyone who’s tried to call. Unfortunately, though, I do have one now, so if I don’t answer, just leave a message. (Really, email is a much better way to reach me.) I’ve noticed that there’s a pattern […]
Some of the peppers and tomatoes were ready to pick, and I needed to thin out the beets a little. I also cleaned a few bulbs of garlic to see if it was done curing yet. The kale is growing, but it’s still small, and selecting leaves from several plants, […]
We’re enjoying a brief, heavy downpour right now, and I wanted to take the opportunity to show you something. Fans of raised-bed gardening often criticize row gardening (as depicted above) as being wasteful of space. But look–those paths aren’t just for walking or operating machines. When you use a furrower […]
The is the front garden. In the half towards the street, you see flint corn growing. The other half is beets, carrots, and onions. Between the rows of corn, I planted rows of winter squash…acorn, I think. Within the rows of corn, between the corn plants, I planted pole beans. […]
I really let the weeds in the garlic bed get away from me this summer. I went out to weed it yesterday, but the leaves had already started turning yellow. It was time to pull it. So instead of just pulling weeds, I harvested the garlic, too. It went so […]
Come out to the Drexel at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 24th, to see a free screening of Growing Cities, a film about urban farming in America. The film will be followed by a panel discussion with Lisa Daris of Slow Money, Eric Pawlowski […]
I picked the rest of the garlic scapes today. We have just under eight pounds, enough to fill three plastic grocery bags. If I don’t hear from anyone in the next couple days, I’m probably going to chop them up and freeze them for my own family. The price […]
At 9:40 tonight, it was dark enough that I had to use my phone as a flashlight to find the shutoff switch on our new tiller. I’ll be tilling most of the day tomorrow. With luck, I’ll even get most of the planting done before the rain comes Tuesday night. […]
Yesterday, we ate the first of the mulberries and garlic scapes. I don’t know whether we’ll have enough mulberries to sell this year (we harvested those at our old house in previous years), but there should be more than enough scapes to offer some for sale. Email me if […]
I spent most of yesterday in the greenhouse. I’ve got about 150 tomato plants potted now. Most are seedlings, but about 40 are around 18″ high. I’m just waiting until the deer fence is up and the ground is tilled. The tiller is due to arrive next week. Here are […]