In this week three weeks of Hour-A-Day Gardening . . .Join in our 100 days, 100 hour gardening challenge and be entered in a raffle for prizes. Follow along by checking out the hashtag: #100days100hourgardeningchallenge. [insta-gallery id=”0″] Summer Weather is Here The last three weeks have been 70s, then 80s, and finally 90s with occasional … More Three for One: Hour-A-Day Gardening
We’ve been growing and processing wheat and rye by hand for a few years. In mid-July, we will harvest it using scythes and sickles. Then it has to get tied into sheaves and stood up in shocks to dry. Once dry, it has to be threshed to remove the grains from the heads, and then … More Upcoming Workshop — Hand-Harvesting Wheat and Rye, Jul. 16, 10 a.m.–4 p.m., $35 ($30 for members)
In this week of Hour-A-Day Gardening . . .Join in our 100 days, 100 hour gardening challenge and be entered in a raffle for prizes. Follow along by checking out the hashtag: #100days100hourgardeningchallenge. [insta-gallery id=”0″] Perfect Spring Weather The weather continues to be seasonable and wonderful: rain, warm, cool. The rain every three to four … More COVID!: Hour-A-Day Gardening
We keep chickens here at LTI. We grow feed for them in the fields, feed them kitchen scraps, eat the eggs, and butcher extra cockerels (young males) for our meat so we don’t need to buy it. Last year, under the advice of Holin over at the Victorian Technology Institute, we put bought-in day-old chicks … More It’s Called Biology, Honey! — Chicks Hatching
In this week of Hour-A-Day Gardening . . .Join in our 100 days, 100 hour gardening challenge and be entered in a raffle for prizes. Follow along by checking out the hashtag: #100days100hourgardeningchallenge. [insta-gallery id=”0″] Perfect Spring Weather The weather has been lovely and seasonal. Some rain, some warm, some cool. Plants (and weeds) are … More Slow and Steady: Hour-A-Day Gardening
In this week of Hour-A-Day Gardening . . .Join in our 100 days, 100 hour gardening challenge and be entered in a raffle for prizes. Follow along by checking out the hashtag: #100days100hourgardeningchallenge. [insta-gallery id=”0″] Back to Wet and Cool The temps this week returned to seasonable 70s with a couple bouts of rain. It … More Like a Dog . . . : Hour-A-Day Gardening
In this week of Hour-A-Day Gardening . . .Join in our 100 days, 100 hour gardening challenge and be entered in a raffle for prizes. Follow along by checking out the hashtag: #100days100hourgardeningchallenge. [insta-gallery id=”0″] It Is Too Hot It hit 90 deg. F this week and was in the 80s for much of the … More Some Like It Hot?: Hour-A-Day Gardening
In this week of Hour-A-Day Gardening . . .Join in our 100 days, 100 hour gardening challenge and be entered in a raffle for prizes. Follow along by checking out the hashtag: #100days100hourgardeningchallenge. [insta-gallery id=”0″] Finally, Dry Conditions I am sure I’ll regret this when we are in the increasingly common drought conditions later in … More Drying Out: Hour-A-Day Gardening
In this video we show the best methods to seed home-scale grains. … More Grow Your Own Grains, Part 1: Best Seeding Methods — Low Tech Video, No. 24
In this week of Hour-A-Day Gardening . . .Join in our 100 days, 100 hour gardening challenge and be entered in a raffle for prizes. Follow along by checking out the hashtag: #100days100hourgardeningchallenge. [insta-gallery id=”0″] Rain, Cool, Repeat While we need the rain, it has been spaced out and interspersed with cool, cloudy weather, meaning … More Rain Continues: Hour-A-Day Gardening