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Post by mnjrutherford on Aug 27, 2012 9:20:24 GMT -5
Holly, Joseph, you guys could move here and we can start a commune.....
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 27, 2012 11:50:58 GMT -5
Jo, I can't move. I could not sell this land and would have no money for which to buy another and it would be the same darn thing where ever. No, I'm just going to quit farming for hire. Next year, I plan to grow only for my family and for seed production....the continuation of my experiments and field trials. Which reminds me, I wanted to show you this corn/squash experiment. On each side of the flour corn I planted Little Green Seed. I have not lost one plant to gophers, even though they are not caged. Also, there are NO squash bugs in this plot. Now, that's something to replicate next year. People who have no connection to the farm have no idea how hard this work is and how many trials and tribulations occur during the season. From helpers who don't show up or don't listen and then pick the wrong thing, or pick it the wrong way. To customers, who refuse any price increase, fail to return boxes, bags, canning jars and complain that they want more/less of whatever it is this week. And finally the increasing government regulations continue to boggle my mind. Here's the latest and it affects all of you. Beginning 2014 if you make $250k farming (ha ha) you must develop a food safety plan. This will eventually affect every single one of us regardless of how much money you make all because someone got poisoned from lettuce or was it spinach? My bitch is that no one has been poisoned by any SMALL scale farm, only by corpse corp agriculture. Yet, we'll all be dragnet 'd into doing this paperwork and training. Already organic certifying groups are jumping on this bandwagon to take another dollar from a farmer. onfarmfoodsafety.org/ For more info on how to write one of these. Attachments:
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Aug 27, 2012 12:23:08 GMT -5
Holly, Joseph, you guys could move here and we can start a commune..... I already lived in 2 communes. It was harder than farming, especially for someone like me who tends to disrespect stupid people who think that they are in charge. |
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 28, 2012 16:11:17 GMT -5
Joseph and I are not very good at suffering fools.
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Post by steev on Aug 28, 2012 19:24:32 GMT -5
I'm fair-to-middling at making fools suffer; it's like salting snails, except snails don't deserve it.
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Post by mnjrutherford on Aug 29, 2012 7:35:33 GMT -5
Well it's a darn good thing we don't make any money on our place huh? Politically, things are surely going to become much much worse over the coming years.
As for the commune... you DO realize I was teasing, right??? Cause think about it, 1.9 acres between us??? We'd be waiting for each other to fall asleep to make tiny raised beds on the sleepers foreheads to grow parsley! ::sniff sniff:: ::snivel snivel:: I won't say ANYthing about the suffering fools... ::pout:: Not even the salted ones! ;o)
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Post by steev on Aug 29, 2012 10:37:12 GMT -5
Communes? Sure, I'll share my weeds with anyone.
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Post by mnjrutherford on Aug 30, 2012 12:55:06 GMT -5
LOL I bet my weeds are taller than yours Steev!
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Post by steev on Aug 30, 2012 14:08:06 GMT -5
Yeah, but mine last longer.
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Post by littleminnie on Sept 25, 2012 19:42:07 GMT -5
Is there any crop you think you can never grow enough of? I am increasing many things but see a few spaces and wonder what I could put in more of and actually need it. Does anyone do later season potatoes? I am sure the potato beetles would devour them but maybe if row covered...
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Sept 25, 2012 21:09:44 GMT -5
Is there any crop you think you can never grow enough of? I can never grow enough tomatoes... That's mostly environmental: The available tomato genome just doesn't thrive in my climate. I think next year that I'll only grow cherry tomatoes, and those really weird roma-like things. I could always use more carrots, but I don't like the extra labor. I run out of beets too soon. I think that this may finally be the year when I grow sufficient true-potato-seed. Late in the season I could use more small scallions. I can never grow too much sweet corn. I can never grow enough tree-fruits, grapes, or berries. I can grow enough peas: TWO weeks per year!!!! |
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Post by 12540dumont on Sept 25, 2012 23:25:39 GMT -5
Speaking for myself personally,
We always run out of potatoes, onions and garlic and have to break down and buy those things. And I truly hate buying produce.
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Post by littleminnie on Sept 26, 2012 20:17:48 GMT -5
Interesting.
I was talking to the farmer next to me at market and asked "do you know what crop you could never grow enough of?" He didn't know. I said "The one that is doing poorly that year!" Around here with so many market customers having gardens it is hard to sell many veggies but whatever is doing poorly is in hot demand! That and things out of season such as cilantro and dill in summer, tomatoes in June or July and October and so on. Plus I think sweet potatoes would do very well. I have never had enough to sell at market but I am putting in 300 plants next year which is 3x normal. I am hoping for a better year of potatoes and garlic. Onions did well.
I am working on shade and extra water for summer greens and adding one more corn bed, should I do two extra? I added more carrots and beets too!
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Post by James on Oct 22, 2012 17:42:52 GMT -5
In looking back at the season: More corn, carrots, chard, dill, broccoli, kohlrabi.
I will say corn is a money maker. Maybe I should just grow corn and stagger it so I have some every week? I always sell all I take to market.
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Post by littleminnie on Oct 27, 2012 21:31:49 GMT -5
That is great. I always thought I would sell out on chemical free corn at market but surprisingly do not.
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