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An east coast transplant who loves to pickling, canning, fermenting; and eating it all!
Global Worming It’s Compost Tea Time
Currently Listening: Elder – Lore Compost tea is a wonderful thing. We could get real technical here, but lets keep it simple. In essence, the idea is that you have sugar and inoculated compost and we fed it to the tomato plants on the new bed that has brand new soil and hardly any organics […]
Feelin’ Great From My Head Tomatoes
Currently Listening: Minor Threat – Complete Discography It’s been rainy here the past couple days which as I’m sure you can imagine makes everything in the garden just POP! Thus far, we’ve harvested 37 pounds for the month of May. Check out this ridiculous allium: (whose name I do not know!) We transplanted some peppers already […]
Under The Hawthorn Tree
Currently Listening: Crypt Trip- Crypt Trip Friday May 1st the Hawthorn Tree came down to let in more sunshine and open up the abandoned kiln area. What an important event to document in the history of the farm! We were lucky enough to have Sperry’s Tree Care come and do the work with Jesse as […]
Maypole Dancing
Currently listening: Love Monster I would like to share more pictures of the Beltane celebration! Nancy was kind enough to share some of the earlier classes pictures with us, and I have more single shots that show just how confusing the dance can be (expressions are priceless!) Noon class making adorable floral chains: Setting it up: […]
Beltane
Currently listening: The Beach Boys- Vega-Tables Beltane celebration! I want to do a little write up about it, but it simply will not compare to Lauren’s version of the tale. Just let it be known we took a break from our normal activities to celebrate May Day. We had a potluck and danced around the […]
Life Alive!
Currently listening: Menace- Best of Today I went around and just took pictures of both classes and both locations, the Columbia street and the UO one. I’ll elaborate more on that later, but first I want to post these pictures! Morning Class at UO Urban Farm: Lauren’s group examining the bee’s: Harper’s group setting up […]
Olive You Lettuce Bee Together
Currently listening: Sheer Mag- Fan The Flames We have 97.46 pounds of harvest for the month of April! Imagine if we had been recording for the winter term too! Epic :] I am pumped and believe gardening is such an important part of LIFE! How blessed we are to be able to participate in such […]
These Bee Puns Are Just Winging It
Currently listening: Lecherous Gaze- Animal Brain Saturday (April 5, 2015) I got to watch bee’s go into a new home. A Kenya (top-bar horizontal hive) and a Warre Langstroth hive :], Italian honey-bee’s in one and European in the other. Before: “After” (Since the bee’s were still adjusting to their new home, I wouldn’t quite refer […]
Winter 2015
Currently listening: Blue Cheer- Vincebus Eruptum It just so happens that I have some scattered pictures from winter term available to share with you! Jan 24 (Saturday Session): We went over to River Bend Farm/Orchard to learn and help them prune their pear tree’s! Before (not our handy work): After: February 3: I transplanted an […]