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Weekly update from two subsistence organic farmers in the deep South
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073 - Watching the Farm Wake Up from Winter
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15y ago
20:53
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#The trees are budding
#The broccoli is having another go of it
#And the sleepy brussels sprouts are now pouring it
#But what's that critter that's eating on it before
072 - Subsistence Farming After Peak Oil
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15y ago
20:32
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071 - The Trees are Planted, but We're Not Finished
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15y ago
20:58
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070 - Planting 74 Fruit Trees!
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15y ago
20:50
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069 - Holding On To Our Orchard for Dear Life
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15y ago
19:48
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068 - The Orchard Expansion Gets Real
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16y ago
20:34
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067 - Debriefing on Southern SAWG
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16y ago
20:28
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066 - Heating with a Wood Stove
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16y ago
25:12
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065 - How Much Land Do You Need?
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16y ago
21:14
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064 - The Orchard Expansion is Underway!
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16y ago
20:26
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063 - What We're Expecting in 2011
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16y ago
19:28
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062 - A Merry UnChristmas at the Farm
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16y ago
23:37
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061 - God Bless Fall Veg!
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16y ago
18:15
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060 - Living in a Tiny Space
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16y ago
22:22
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059 - Are We Really Hunters?
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16y ago
20:34
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058 - Giving Thanks
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16y ago
19:20
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057 - Unwrapping the Fall Veg
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16y ago
19:28
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056 - What a Difference One Night Makes!
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16y ago
20:52
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055 - Post Mortem On Our First Summer
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16y ago
20:27
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054 - HACKED!
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16y ago
17:22
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#We know oil will cost more. Will it be available a
#Food
#Shelter
#And relationships? Can we say anything good?
#We’ve planted 84 trees. Next up: erosion control a
#Trellis lines
#Deer fence
#Drip irrigation
#We're in full scale planting mode
#19 trees yesterday
#Hoping for even more today. High-density organic o
#Using a flared auger
#The rain cut deep rivers in our new orchard expans
#Our extension agent
#Plotting future trails
#And developing a new work platform
#My brother Dave Gray and his bulldozer were active
#But that's all it took for him to push out all the
#Clean out an area below the orchard
#And contour the orchard to cut down on erosion
#We love our visit each year to SSAWG. Each year
#Though
#It's less dramatic
#More subtle. These are mostly commercial farmers
#We love heating with a wood stove
#Because it’s efficient. comfortable
#And economical. But there are disadvantages
#And we talk about them too. We finish with our gue
#We look at the question two ways: (1) how much do
#Our decision to remove stumps turned out to be mor
#What to do with the firewood and mulch
#And whether we'll be able to plant any trees this
#Compost in waiting
#We look back on our first full year living on the
#The projects
#The challenges
#And the dreams. We want to do a better job reachin
#We have contrasting reactions to our decision not
#Improvement in growing performance
#Plans for the future
#And what we did right and wrong with drip irrigati
#Fall veg grows slowly
#But muscles through a 15 degree freeze. Also: Do w
#Farewell to Master Gardener classes
#Good to be walking again
#We talk frankly about the advantages and disadvant
#About what works in its design and what we would d
#Why we’ve changed from our suburban squeamishness
#Deer hunting as harvest rather than sport
#And how we hope to use the meat. Also: “Amanda Oak
#Our all-day cookfest
#We say thanks for our blessings: the farm
#The deer fence
#Health
#Family
#We’ve been watching through the row cover
#But now the bugs are down
#So we pulled the row cover Sunday. Also: spreading
#Breaking in a new smoker
#All it took was one night of freezing temperatures
#As is the sunn hemp. Also: sweet potato harvest an
#Our original strategy for surviving without air co
#And why it failed. What we did instead. What we wo
#No
#Amanda wasn't stuck in London needing money wired
#But it was a long day. How we're recovering
#And what we've learned. Also: baby shower on the f
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