This post: a wizard’s fix for your Earthway Seeder aimed at preventing seeds from getting stuck behind the seed plate
This post: a couple of readers share photos of their home-built livestock feeders and techniques
This post: a couple quick examples of effective ways to cure freshly harvested garlic.
This post: readers share photos of their garden trellises.
The makeshift garden cart that cost me 30 bucks and a couple of hours. Fore! Plus: win a gift certificate for Lee Valley!
With no money in the budget for anything fancy this year, we used some row-tunnel hoops lying around the farm to create a skookum trellis system for our tomato plants.
For our farm’s rocky soil, we built a mobile sifter that sifts rocks and preps garden beds at the same time.
This post: the results of my attempt to save my pack from the travails of gardening.
In this post: techniques for anchoring row cover in the garden. Take that, Wind!
In this post: numerous techniques for improving/speeding up veggie, herb, and flower seed germination.
This week, The Ruminant proposes and implements a new format for sharing farming innovations, using the challenge of storing irrigation line as its first topic.
Herrick Kimball’s inexpensive build-it-yourself chicken plucker will change your life if your life involves slaughtering chickens on the farm.
Vivi Curuchet’s technique for protecting her Dahlias from frost-kill during Vancouver Island’s cold, damp winters.
In this post: Herrick Kimball’s do-it-yourself take on a row tunnel system for growing veggies under cover.
Susan Nelson took an old trailer and turned it into an easy way to move her hay feeder around the pasture
In this post, Herrick Kimball shares an effective, inexpensive homemade rub for your tools’ wooden handles
This post: Owen Bridge shows you how to make your own hay rake
This post: an easy-to-make tool that Joe Klein built for cutting hay strings in a jiffy
Susan Nelson and Vivi Curuchet have developed a milking system for their small-scale dairy that is clean, efficient, and affordable to build. The best part? The tracking they use to avoid lugging 60 pounds of milk around.
This post: urban market gardener Curtis Stone’s excellent bicycle trailer that he uses to haul his produce and tools. Designed by Curtis, the trailer is capable of hauling up to 500 pounds.
Dale Ziech of Little Creek Gardens near Kelowna, BC has developed a cheap and easy way to increase soil temperature in his hoop-house beds when it counts.
This New Brunswick farm mainly produces pastured beef and poultry. Featured in this post are some of the designs David Bunnett and family use to make their system work.
Dale Ziech’s father-in-law John Dennison created this ingenious greens harvester when Dale told him how expensive the commercial version was
Leo Dutil of Ferme Les Serres Naturo has built a handy implement that attaches to his tractor-driven tiller that allows him to make narrower, deeper beds for planting roots.
This post: Andrea Berry’s ingenious seed-scooping spoons, perfect for measuring seed in a hurry
In this post: How Don Tipping of Seven Seeds Farm in Oregon makes his soil blocks for starting seeds
In this post: Eric Simons and Philippa Mennell’s design for their seed-starting greenhouse.
In this post: David Desmond’s cell-pack plugger and a brilliant system for warming large quantities of seed trays
In this post: one hay-feeder works, one doesn’t. Can you guess which is which?
Tom and Barbara Boyer have a 400 acre farm called Gourmet Hay near McMinnville, Oregon. They primarily produce hay but Barbara also maintains a small[...]