Garden bounty
Harvest has begun at the Grovestead. The early season crops are prime for picking. Past prime, actually. Our cucumbers were actually too big so we had to cut out the…
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Rory
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Rory Groves moved his family from the city to the country several years ago to begin the journey towards a more durable way of life. Rory and his wife Becca now reside in southern Minnesota where they farm, raise livestock, host workshops, and homeschool their six children. He is the author of Durable Trades: Family-Centered Economies That Have Stood the Test of Time.
FSA: Family Supported Agriculture
Our recent conversations about what to do next have centered on livestock. Goats, pigs, cows, sheep. We haven’t talked about llamas yet, but nothing has been ruled out. Livestock is…
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Training the strawberries
This year is our second attempt at growing strawberries and we’ve made some modifications. We planted them into a raised bed with fresh compost, mulched heavily with wood chips, and…
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Cleaning out the coop
One of the steps in making my no-till garden plot earlier this Spring called for organic fertilizer over fresh compost. So I found myself in the fertilizer aisle of the…
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HoneyFest!
Earlier this year when planning our summer calendar we thought it would be fun to have a beekeeping party along the same lines as our maple syrup tree tapping party.…
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Building raised bed gardens, step-by-step
I normally wouldn’t detail how to build a raised bed garden—its just a box, after all. But when a friend of mine who is starting his own backyard garden asked…
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