Writings from the ranch
Gardening Wisdom
Farmers almanac, planting by the moon, intuition in gardening, grim reaper
What have we done so far this year?
developing bare land, positive attitude, organic farming
Spring Fever
Spring Fever , vegetable garden planning, gardening with kids, farming as a livelihood
Crazy Quilt Gardening
I am the queen of non conventional gardening.Especially because I don’t want to buy monsanto seed so I let everything reseed and I get prolific random seedlings.Right now my garden looks like a forest of all the winter greens...
Self Sufficiency- Too Many Eggs!
Fresh eggs, The spring garden , self sufficiency
Baking Day ! Sunday March 13th 2010 noon
Baking Day Here 42450 Roseman Creek rd. Gualala, Ca. on Sunday March 13th 12:00 noon Bake with us or come to get Bread and Eggs !
Eating from the garden year round
Year round gardening, eating from a winter garden, eating local in the winter months,
The Old Tractor Accident
Women driving tractors, equipment safety, organic farming,
Happy Valentines Day, Are You Doing What You Love ?
Personal responsibility, Buddhism, building gardens
Children who eat Vegetables
My youngest daughter whose four and a half, eats her veggies. Usually before anything else. We have to make her eat the other things on the plate. " No More Salad! till you take a bite of meat" " You can't just eat the swiss chard " " Don't just eat the kale raw " "...
Baking Day ! Febuary 12th 12:00
Naturally leavened bread, wood fired bread oven, brick oven, self sustainability
Been busy
After coming back from Filigreen Farms I decided we needed to turn our whole upper garden into espallier fruit trees. We planned to turn it into gardens anyway but now hopefully it will be a longer lived planting and easier for us to maintain as we get older than...
Inspiration Farms
Biodynamic orchards, Apple trees, fruit trees, pruning methods
We are accepting GMO Alfalfa ? WTF ?
http://www.ecocentricblog.org/2011/01/28/vilsack-caved-on-gm-alfalfa-so-whats-the-impact/
Monsanto is trying to legalize GMO Alfalfa
http://www.responsibletechnology.org/blog/664
RATNA LING RETREAT
EMBRACE LOVE VALENTINE'S DAY RETREAT “Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish... Love is a practice. Love is truly a practice.” --Thich Nhat Hanh Escape and deepen your appreciation for each other. Share moments of quiet beauty among the natural...
Fruit Tree Transplanting
Well, don't let me read anything or learn anything. After the tree pruning workshop I realized my trees were too close together. Soooo Really though it was the trees we were going to move to open up the garden and connect the two areas together. Don't they look nice...
Biodynamic Fruit tree pruning
On Sunday I attended a fruit tree pruning workshop at Frey Vineyards in Redwood Valley, Ca. This was following a quarterly meeting of the Biodynamic association. Frey vineyards is an organic and biodynamic vineyard. Biodynamic farming is one of the philosophies of...
Winter and the chickens
Chickens, predators, self sustainability, Buff Orpington , Black Orpington. Challah Bread
Motorcyles and stress relief
Vintage Motorcycles,BmwR90/6,Farming, Stress relief
Farming with Kids
Tibetan Buddhism, working with kids, farming with kids
Becoming a real Farmer
Organic farming, sustainability, organic vegetable gardening
Plant Propagation
Propagation of shrubs , hard wood cuttings, perennial divisions.
Farming as a paying job
Farming apprenticeships,farming, self sustainability
Vegetable Growing
Flowers verses veggies,
Organics in the garden
Organic fertilizer, green sand, cottonseed meal,chicken manure, organic gardening
Gardens growing up, the ten year old garden
Fine gardening,pruning, garden design
Holy Shit the secret behind creating truly sustainable food
great authors, food movement writers, manure, e colli
The Material World
self-sustainability, off grid
Christmas gifting
Today I pruned the wisteria that are beginning to grow up and across our porch . I took the cuttings and wound them into some wreaths. In a very poor Christmas in the past we used their seed pods to string into ornaments on our tree.They would twirl in the breeze and...