A great orchardist once told us that when pruning fruit trees it doesn’t matter how many fruits the tree produces if you can’t reach them. Proper pruning is important to train the tree into the correct form so the fruit is not only reachable but also so that the structure is open bringing light to…
When your primary focus is growing food sometimes other plants get overlooked. I have to say I’m definitely guilty of this. In a race to use all of our available space to grow food we made the dumb decision to rip out our landscape that was filled with flowers. Soon after we moved the chickens…
We’ve had several earthquakes lately. The latest one was a 4.0 this morning about 15 miles south of us. I felt it a little bit. Well enough to yell “what was that?!” as the cats went tearing through the house. Tom didn’t feel it though. A couple of weeks ago we had two fairly small…
Dog Island Farm is a small urban farm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
