We raise plants and animals already. We’ve decided to add onto our farm by adding fungi – a new mushroom garden. For those that were at our potluck you probably noticed this small area fenced off between the house and the tower. It’s a nice small area that we don’t use that spends…
Our beds have always been a little wonky. We don’t have raised beds because it would be cost prohibitive to put them in. Over time they’ve slowly changed shape and narrowed. The middle ones don’t even run in a straight line anymore. Needless to say we had to do something about them. We just didn’t…
I posted over a year ago about seed resources and the varieties we plant. Well over time things have changed. We’ve learned more about our property and weather patterns here and have been able to adjust it. Of course it will always be a moving target over time, but for now these are what we’ve…
I hope everyone has a wonderful New Year! I did a post earlier this month about our goals and accomplishments so I’m not going to rehash it. I do want to give a run down of how our garden did this year. Maybe you’ve seen our running total on the sidebar. Well, that will soon…
Around here January marks the beginning of bareroot season. Fruit trees become available in mass quantities and so many varieties it’s mind boggling. Our first year here we planted 16 bareroot trees almost immediately after moving in. Our second year we planted 9 more. I of course want more but have pretty much run out…
This all came from one plant that we didn’t irrigate I’m going to learn how to do it. I’m considering dedicating one of our large 75′ beds to dry farming. I think that our soil might be cut out for it. I honestly don’t know much about it, but I’m going to start researching it….
Squash from one volunteer plant This past year we had a lot of volunteer plants. The major difference between them and the ones we planted purposely is that the volunteers were a lot more prolific and produced much larger fruit. While I’ve had great luck with using the Moon Phases to plant them – better…
Our yard had been completely overrun by squash for pretty much the entire season. We could barely get to one of our herb beds and reaching the second herb bed was completely out of the question. For those that aren’t familiar with squash vines, they have lots of little spines all over them, and while…
OK, it’s an old photo that was taken at our old house in Napa, but it’s the last time we’ve grown cabbage. And it was good cabbage. This year, however, we’re growing a LOT more cabbage – 3 beds each with a different variety. I’m hoping to have enough to make sauerkraut now that I’ve…
B from the blog Epona Report asked a great question about how to rotate through your crops. Do you do a crop of fall veggies? Or do you just let everything go fallow over winter? I live in Florida, zone 8b, and I feel it just gets too hot too quickly for some of my…
Dog Island Farm is a small urban farm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
