Writings from the ranch

Poisoned Apples

http://www.grist.org/food-safety/2011-06-14-dirty-dozen-pesticides-apples-consumers-farm-workers-ewg

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Thinning fruit trees

When I took a fruit tree pruning workshop last fall, the organic commercial growers there described their maintenance regime. One thing they emphasized, was thinning fruit about 6-8 weeks after bloom when the fruit is very small . Thinning down to one per cluster....

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Farming 2011

As this year shapes up for us, we are finding ourselves working hard to finish infrastructure development and to do it with a cash flow problem. TRADE has become our middle name, maybe our surname . We are trading for carpentry help to install our outdoor kitchen. So...

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