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The passing of Asparagus Exasperation

Last night as the sun was setting, I got closer to getting caught up in the rush of our first spring planting at Chicken Thistle Farm. Not caught up mind you – just closer. I got in 2 – 20′ rows of about 30 total asparagus crowns… 20 of which came from my [...]

Berry Good

The process of planting bare root blueberries is pretty straight forward. You dig a hole, you add some soil acidifier to the soil, pour a bunch of water into the hole to make a muddy mess (good mess), then you plunk the roots into the hole so the crown is level with the final grading [...]

Non-update, update : Victory Garden

Most of the posts here have the flavor of the developments in and around our home and farm. This one is a little different – as it speaks to some of the fundamentals behind why we are trying to achieve a state where more than just a little bit of food on our table is [...]

Spring Weekend

What did you do this weekend?We took off the snow thrower, took down the driveway stakes, took down the snow fence, put on the backhoe, moved the 2, 10′ maples in the yard that are too close (were too close) to the septic stuff off to other locations, build another bluebird house (Kelli did), placed the [...]