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Post by synergy on May 31, 2015 14:33:26 GMT -5
Kind of bummed I only have plants in half barrels this year as I make a big leap to 10 acres in the woods in a nice mountain valley . My biggest challenge this year is the bear that is poking holes in my poly greenhouse and fencing is the priority , after we get a septic system working , and hot water ... and walls filled in ... and a barn with a roof ... My first homesteading challenge is to find the boundary and the neighbour adjacent for 30 years does not know where it is either so will be doing some surveying before I cut the fenceline out of the brush . So far I have found three three mature hazelnut trees.in the woods .
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Post by synergy on Apr 23, 2015 17:22:56 GMT -5
Castanea, 4 of my chestnuts made it, I am potting all in half barrels (2 - 3 feet high ) so I can move them with me.
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Post by synergy on Mar 30, 2015 1:15:11 GMT -5
"The EPO made clear that plants and animals stemming from conventional breeding can be patented."
Good grief, is this something new? It seems like a very slippery slope .
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Post by synergy on Mar 25, 2015 0:58:57 GMT -5
Even on the west coast of Canada , in the Fraser Valley outside Vancouver , where we have loads of rain, the deep aquifer in the agricultural area about 10 miles inland of my present farm (closer to the coast) is being depleted to the point that farmers are told they will have to tank water or build canals starting in 2016 for their crops, predominantly berry crops .
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Post by synergy on Mar 19, 2015 19:31:20 GMT -5
I hosted a woofer who was 18 mostly dealing with horses for three months and when their mother came to visit I asked her to take her offspring with her . I hosted another woofer with the understanding we were doing a broad range of things from gardening and fence mending to tending animals for 6 months and he was over 60 and fantastic. It is just getting the right person.
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Post by synergy on Mar 19, 2015 19:21:06 GMT -5
Flowerweaver, I have soil like that. It is my pride and joy ! ( and I am that horsey set , and so are hundreds of my friends , but we are more than just one closed set , some of them garden and are chicken breeders and make cheese from their goats milk etc )
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Post by synergy on Mar 16, 2015 5:37:59 GMT -5
Welcome, lovely chicken flock too .
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Post by synergy on Mar 16, 2015 5:33:23 GMT -5
I am living at my dream farm , but I may have to trade a gardening zone to live without debt . I have anxiety and being in debt , menopausal and an insomniac is too much.
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Post by synergy on Mar 15, 2015 12:00:48 GMT -5
I agree, that was great of you to tackle that . I am single so sometimes I have to take the plunge and tackle stuff that is way over my head. I have zero aptitude to understand technology or mechanical stuff and I had to replace a gas pump once pulling the entire gas tank . I had help but once you do try stuff like that you are empowered to tackle the next thing that comes along.
This year I have three garden spaces tilled at least 2 months ahead of any other year when we would be too wet , or still have freezing or snow coming our way. Anyways I am quite proud, incredible soil tilth now after 20 years organic composting . So I am just getting the hang of gardening , after some disaster last year like not planting in rows. My soil was so good that things like swiss chard that I had only seen a regular normal size all my life actually grew about 3 feet high and huge like small banana leaves , all of my garden turned into a jungle that was hard to step through. So this year i am all jazzed that I know somewhat what to plant first and saved some of my first seeds last year. I have some trampoline frames I salvaged and heavy greenhouse poly that I want to figure out an adhock greenhouse to grow some tomatoes here in coastal British Columbia . So I have higher expectations than ever before in my 20 years keeping my land organic with orchards planted and such. Now I go and see a court order sale of a property that is a super opportunity and I am seriously pursuing a bid . If I get it I will have to upheave and sell off this little farm I have been on 20 years and move, no small feat. To a place not set up as a hobby farm at all, has no garden, no orchard, no fencing , no barn and is at least one gardening zone cooler and very unlike my climate and present set up but it would be a huge financial relief after I work a few years to get it the way I would like it .
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Post by synergy on Mar 7, 2015 17:43:00 GMT -5
West coast of Canada, I am not the only one who tilled her gardens and mowed the lawns yesterday . Lots of farmers out tilling this morning too.
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Post by synergy on Feb 23, 2015 1:07:38 GMT -5
Oh my gosh, I think I would be building a partially sunken earth bermed home with sunken gardens .
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Post by synergy on Feb 21, 2015 1:48:31 GMT -5
Crocus, daffodil, violets and dandelions blooming now , hazelnut catkins giving off pollen since January. The grass is high enough to mow. . Mint and swiss chard and rhubarb coming on now . All north of the 49th parallel west coast. A little confusing but I think I better jump into starting the garden early .
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Post by synergy on Feb 13, 2015 16:57:14 GMT -5
We have had cherries blossoming in Vancouver BC Canada in January and highs of 18 celsius here on our farm in January (equivalent of 64 farenheit) . Today is 14c , the catch planting early here is that we could have freezing and snow in mid April kill any young sprouting plants or flowering buds .
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Post by synergy on Feb 12, 2015 1:56:38 GMT -5
I am going to copy your idea for air pots
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Post by synergy on Dec 18, 2014 12:46:00 GMT -5
Putting a chicken to roast while I muck stalls and take another bite out of unloading more sand out of the box of my truck . The sand is being placed in ruts in the lawn and ammending the future aspargus bed ( the one I am not even attempting to plant till 2016 but had to buy a whole load of sand so I might as well start working up another bed).
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