by katie | Jan 30, 2011 | Farming, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Pruning, Self sustainability, Trees, Vegetable Gardening
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...
by katie | Jan 30, 2011 | Cooking, Farming, Fine Gardening, Flower growing, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Perennials, Pruning, Self sustainability, Shrubs, Trees, Vegetable Gardening
Well I went with more friends to the second lesson on biodynamic orchard practices and pruning. This day started at The Apple Farm http://www.philoapplefarm.com/ with Tim Bates telling us about the most beautiful compost and how the innoculents work. Luke Frey...
by katie | Jan 12, 2011 | Farming, Fine Gardening, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Pruning, Self sustainability, Trees, Vegetable Gardening
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...
by katie | Jan 11, 2011 | Farming, Fine Gardening, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Pruning, Self sustainability, Trees
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...
by katie | Jan 2, 2011 | Cooking, Farming, Fine Gardening, Flower growing, Organic Gardening, Self sustainability, Uncategorized
Our chickens have been living in too much mud, although they have a large, well strawed, clean chicken coop to consider.We have a bobcat that loves it’s weekly/bi-weekly organic chicken dinner, finally showing up in the middle of the day staring my husband down,...
by katie | Jan 2, 2011 | Farming, Fine Gardening, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Self sustainability, Trees, Vegetable Gardening
Okay , I get to admit I ride a motorcycle. I have since I was about twelve. Being raised with my brothers and Dad from age 13 on, I was exposed to many machines. I learned to drive towing a boat. My brother who I lived with the most, is brilliant as far as fun ideas...
