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2015 A Difficult Season with Unexpected Results
Another season is drawing to a close and am I ever so ready for some rest from working in the fields. This year I planted more area than ever before, primarily because I had so many new crops to trial out. … Continue reading
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The Amazing Diversity of Cereal Grains
It has been a while since I have posted anything, chiefly because I have been swamped with work this spring and early summer. Another challenging year as I expected, with weather extremes to boot. I stopped a little early today … Continue reading
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Spring Tomato and Pepper Plants
I am ready to begin offering my heirloom tomato and pepper plants at our roadside stand starting this upcoming weekend. I have 70 varieties of tomatoes and about 30 different pepper varieties, both sweet and hot. I have added a … Continue reading
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Regional Seed Bank Proposal
I have created a group on Facebook called Michiana Community Seed Bank. If you live local and would like to be apart of the discussion go ahead and join. This is just a starting point. It is not “my” project, … Continue reading
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Regional Seed Bank for Northern Indiana?
I put the feelers out yesterday on facebook about the idea of some type of regional seed bank for our area here in Northern Indiana. There was some definite enthusiastic interest. I would not necessarily want to limit folks interested … Continue reading
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Spring Plant Lists Available Online
I have completed updating the lists of plants I will have available this spring starting around the end of April and running through until the end of May. I will be selling from my roadside stand at 56549 State … Continue reading
Some thoughts about growing ALL your own food.
I have spent a lot of time over the past 20 years pondering the idea of growing all my own food. Within the last couple of growing seasons, I have attacked this idea with a new fervor, having … Continue reading
Multi-Purpose Crops
When I consider my favorite crops to grow, I always judge this question through various criteria. The obvious considerations being: flavor, yield, disease-resistance, etc. There are, however, many other qualifiers that sometimes get overlooked. The idea of dual or … Continue reading
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Millets and Multi-Cropping
I watched a short video the other day about traditional millet production in India. (You can watch it at the end of this post, it is about 25 min long) I was saddened with this video’s portrayal of millet as a “shunned … Continue reading
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