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Rainbow Ranch Farms -
Monday January 17, 2011 - By Poly
How to Build Hoop Houses : Greenhouse & Hoop House Irrigation
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Boulder Belt Eco-Farm -
Tuesday November 09, 2010 - By Lucy
This is it, the last share of the 2010 FSI season. We all made it through and we should be proud of our locavore accomplishment. It is not easy to be in a CSA as an American eater as we American eaters are all about convenience and price and...
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Boulder Belt Eco-Farm -
Tuesday November 09, 2010 - By Lucy
Greenings and Saladations! It's week 23, just 2 more weeks for the people who have bought 4 week shares (you guys are getting a bonus week as there are 5 weeks in Sept and you paid for 4 of them) and 4 more weeks for the 3 month and...
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Boulder Belt Eco-Farm -
Tuesday November 09, 2010 - By Lucy
It's week 21 and a whole new month to boot! September is often our most bountiful month but I am not so sure this will be the case this year as it is so hot and dry and this is now having a negative impact on the market garden. The crops are...
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Boulder Belt Eco-Farm -
Wednesday October 13, 2010 - By Lucy
Good Morning It's been another dry week but we are persevering with our fall plantings. Most mornings for us are spent hauling hoses, watering cans and buckets to the garden, filling up the vessels with water (we have several sizes from 75...
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Bruton Vineyard -
Wednesday June 09, 2010 - By Betty
6/9/2010 Tomorrow will be the task of laying a new drip irrigation system for a field to be planted with fall produce. By September we should have pumpkins, acorn squash, late field peas grown in the stubble of the winter rye and cover legumes.
We...
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Boulder Belt Eco-Farm -
Friday July 31, 2009 - By Lucy
It's week 16 of the farm Share initiative for many of you. Many CSA type programs go for less time than that. And here we do our Farm Share Initiative virtually year round. And that brings me to the question, are any of you interested in a winter farm Share? I...
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Boulder Belt Eco-Farm -
Monday June 08, 2009 - By Lucy
It's June! the start of summer or something like that. Early June is when we transplant the tomatoes as this is when we are about 99% assured there will be no frost (there was a frost after June 7th in the late 1980's I remember but 99 years out of 100...
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West End Farm -
Tuesday May 19, 2009 - By Alice
Plants
that use water efficiently, what a provocative and broad subject to
touch on, Joe. You're going to make me stretch for this one. The
first, simplest and easiest answer is that for true drought tolerance
you really want to find a nearby Native...
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Greene Hills Farm -
Tuesday April 21, 2009 - By Stephanie
Here in eastern Washington we get less rainfall than Phoenix, Arizona. Irrigation is vital! (Jamie calls it “irritation”). Once the district gets water into the canals (it comes from Cascade Mt. snow pack via the Yakima River), we get busy setting up all our...
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F.A. Farm -
Thursday February 19, 2009 - By Walter
The US has quite a bit of arable land still available. Estimates on the Web range from 302 million to 470 million acres. Since I am a sustainable farmer, I know how much food I can grow, how many potential calories are available through human labor, and other...
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