This episode: Irrigation expert Troy Peters talks about best practices in crop irrigation. This man can make your garden more productive.
This post: Curtis Stone of Green City Acres, a bustling SPIN farm in Kelowna, BC, shares a few shots of his winter production methods.
This post links to a simple DIY trick to keep your potted plants well-watered on hot days.
This post: after a disorganized first year of transporting CSA veggies, our much more efficient and effective system. Great for farms without air-conditioned transport.
This post: integrate chickens into your garden’s fertility maintenance with the salad bar approach!
This post: Enda Weigel shares photos of her greenhouse and solar oven, and a few techniques she uses for great seed germination.
This post: a simple example of a skookum garden cart for the veggie garden. Good luck finding wheels like this…
This post: more audio! Part two of a two part series on the use of cover crops in a small-scale garden. This episode: living mulches.
This post: Abundant Acres’ very mobile, very Russian chicken coop
Here’s another submission from Trevor at Busy Bea’s Market Garden in Alberta. In this one he briefly describes a couple of the labour-saving devices he[...]
Editor’s Note: This is a guest-post by Hannah Roessler, a graduate student at the University of Victoria on Vancouver Island who, having done some farming[...]
Dave and Kim from Waxwing Farm in Nova Scotia recently sent in another submission. It’s a quickie:
This post: a simple design for a cold frame to harden off seedlings before they go in the garden.
In this post: Katie shares her approach to lighting her nursery and increasing her moth collection.
This post: a narrow harvest trolley and a fat bucket filler make life at Wealden Flowers a little easier.
This post: How does one heat a nursery when he’s off-grid? Dave Hastings built his greenhouse bench with a rocket-stove type heating system.
This post: Douglas Smith’s review of the 1914 classic The Profitable Culture of Vegetables by Douglas Smith
In this post: yet another handy way to cure garlic effectively
This post: Corey Brown of Blackbird Organics shares his Gimli-approved mobile chicken coop design
With this hoophouse design, we’ve achieved a 45′, mobile walk-in hoophouse system that can be carried anywhere on the farm by two people.
The Ruminant Podcast: episode 2 explores the art of producing quinoa and amaranth on a small scale with guests Dan Jason of Saltspring Seeds and Curtis Stone of Green City Acres.
In this post: Moss Dance shares her design for a simple, affordable hoophouse.
This post: a quick review, and link to, a webinar about utilizing cover crops for organic production.
In this first episode of The Ruminant Podcast: Jordan Marr speaks to Jason Beam about growing seedlings in potting blocks
In this post: writer, organic farmer, and seed producer Dan Brisebois suggests five books new vegetable farmers should read first.
A former apprentice and soon-to-be apprenticeship host suggests that farm apprentices, on average, aren’t compensated enough, and shares his ideas for improving their lot
An unplanned camping theme permeates this post, which features a couple of farmers’ approaches to housing their animals.
In this post: a cheap way to build a roller for firming seed beds after you plant cover crop seed