by Richard | Mar 11, 2022 | Farm Updates, No-Dig Market Gardening
Big seeding day! I have six old varieties of grains that I want to grow out in the market garden beds. I’m going to test growing them at conventional spacing and in spacing inspired by the System of Rice Intensification method. Have you tried growing ancient grains?...
by Richard | Mar 9, 2022 | Farm Updates
I’m starting to sow the vegetables for the year. We’ve got 1000m2 under cultivation, and even though the beds are still snow capped and frozen, the lean-to greenhouse now has a nice temperature and it’s time to get the tomatoes in. What have you sown thus far? Join...
by Richard | Feb 28, 2022 | Interviews & Talks
Today I catch up with Cathal Mooney who you may well remember from Heather Hill Farm over in Ireland. He’s building an epic new ‘state-of-the-art’ egg-mobile as well as a multi-species processing unit on the farm. We’re running a training at his farm...
by Richard | Feb 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
Here’s a little update on what we’ve been up to on the farm; it’s that time of year where winter and spring are battling for the upper hand. Is it warming up in your neck of the woods? Join the conversation in the comments below. Thousands of people come here...
by Richard | Feb 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
Here’s part 1 of making the Ridgedale mini egg-mobile. For this year’s homesteading purposes, a capacity of 25 birds is enough. I’m building it back-of-a-napkin style, and it’s so fun to be building something again after about a year’s...
