In this episode, we harvest wheat, from scything and binding in the field, to threshing, grinding, and baking.
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#ResilienceGarden … More Foodmageddon, Episode 20: Wheat Harvest by Hand
Every swing of the scythe begins with a smooth draw back and to the side, loading energy in the reaper’s body like a spring. … More A Few Thoughts Harvesting Wheat with a Scythe
In this episode, we deal with Colorado potato beetles, biking to the store, and the begin of raspberry season.
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#ResilienceGarden … More Foodmageddon, Episode 19: Playing Catch Up
It is high summer, but I have to be thinking about what we will be eating this fall. The average first frost date for this area is September 30th. That means I have just over sixty days of growing outside. The greenhouse next door will give me another week or two and our own greenhouse … More Late-Season Crops
This year, as we’re stepping up our growing operation, I’m still tracking my hours.
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#ResilienceGarden … More Foodmageddon: Hour Data through Midsummer
In this episode, we deal with Colorado potato beetles, biking to the store, and the begin of raspberry season.
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#ResilienceGarden … More Foodmageddon, Episode 18: Bugs, Bikes, and Berries
We are carrying out a multiyear bee-breeding project as part of an effort to reduce the need for mite treatments in honeybee colonies. This short post is specifically directed towards our fellow beekeepers. We hope to 1) give you a summary of the study we’re carrying out and 2) tell you about the precautions we’re … More Bee-Breeding Project: Information for our Fellow Beekeepers
In this episode, we clear brush, plant sweet potatoes, cut and pickle garlic scapes, prune tomato plants, and create homemade fertilizer.
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#ResilienceGarden … More Foodmageddon, Episode 17: Homemade Fertilizer
Nitrogen is the biggest bottleneck in post-fossil-fuel food production. Before the advent of the Haber-Bosch process, which compresses atmospheric nitrogen (N2) and hydrogen (H2) into ammonia fertilizer (NH3), nitrogen was harvested everywhere it could be found, from remote islands covered in bird droppings (even leading to a war) to domestic dung heaps. Surprisingly enough, the … More Homemade Plant Fertilizer: Urine + Ashes
We’re starting up the full-scale test of our bee breeding project. You can read a project description here. Lab notes are just that: a record of our work and data. The bees were installed at their Agrecol locations on April 19, 2020. We have five clusters around the periphery of the property. Each cluster got … More Hive Buildup and Splitting — Lab Note 3.01