Just in case you were wondering...there was a bit of snow left over on Wednesday morning and I did find some tracks in the garden...raccoons.
Read MoreHunger Moon
Winter is probably the best time of year to read David Kline. "Great Possessions: An Amish Farmer's Journal" is one of my favorite books of all time.
Read MorePersephone
So...it is pretty cold outside. We have been having some pretty serious frosts the past few weeks and the ground is frozen solid. It is weather like this that makes you reflect on the drastic variation of the seasons.
Read MoreNew Website
Welcome to our new website....crafted in December 2010 and ready to launch. Hopefully this new layout will more clearly present what it is exactly that we do. Thanks for checking it out, with luck this blog will be updated regularly throughout 2011 to give a better picture what happens during a year of urban agriculture in Seattle. During 2010, ours was probably the worst updated blog in the United States. We are hoping that this coming year will be our best yet (for blogging and for farming) and new and exciting projects keep coming our way....Thanks!
Turnip Update 2010
As you no doubt remember from the epic blog post last year about Turnips (see "Mystery Turnips" 2/3/09)...we are growing a mysterious variety of very large heirloom turnips in the garden.
Last season the turnips grew well and were delicious. I left about 6 plants in the ground over winter so that they would flower and set seed this year (a biennial cycle). It is early April and the plants have begun to push up their flower stalks. This is good. I just need to make sure that no other Brassicas in the garden (overwintered kale, etc.) are allowed to flower or they may cross-pollinate and then the resulting seeds won't breed true to the heirloom turnip variety....
Bees
There are a lot of things that can be said about bees...most of them are good things (unless one flies into your mouth)...here is an article from Take Part about the rise in city beekeeping. On the local front, we are working with Corky Luster at Ballard Bee Company getting hives set up this spring on the roof of Bastille restaurant and up at our headquarters...