Back to Eden No-Till Garden, Revisited
Last year I experimented with a no-till garden plot based on Paul Gautschi’s “Back to Eden” gardening method. This year I decided to go back to the conventional method of tilling, largely…
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Saving heirloom tomato seeds, step-by-step
One of the joys of hobby farming is discovering trends that develop over many seasons. A homegrown tomato plant originally inspired me to start my own garden. Five years later I’m still…
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A farm needs a barn, part 2
Construction is complete! Today we had our final inspection and we are so pleased with how everything turned out and so grateful for a competent team of builders who were…
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Garden Update
With the new barn construction taking most of our attention this summer, we didn’t have as much time to devote to the garden. But we still managed to get our…
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A farm needs a barn
It has been an exciting few weeks here at the Grovestead. We broke ground on our new barn project in mid-May and, weather-permitting, the activity hasn’t stopped since. In a…
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Queening the hives
Towards the end of last summer we discovered one of our two bee hives was vacant, a victim of Colony Collapse Disorder. We pulled frames with honey and added them…
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