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Entries Tagged as 'Farm Planning'
Sustainability is a journey.
April 27th, 2009 Comments Off
What does the concept of sustainability mean to us at The South 47 Farm?
Our goal is simple, but not easy:
We want someone to be farming this piece of ground when all of us are dead and gone.
For the best chance of making that happen, we must:
1) Work to protect and improve the piece of ground [...]
Tags: sustainability
No flowers to smell? Take time to visit the alpacas.
February 11th, 2009 Comments Off
It is now coming up on two weeks since my last entry here.
Seeds are starting to arrive. Territorial Seed came first, then Johnny’s, and, yesterday, Seed Savers Exchange. I’ll spend some time on variety choices some other time. Our drip line also came last week. We drip irrigate almost everything. It saves a lot of [...]
Tags: alpacas · Farmer's Market · honey · irrigation · planning · seeds · Twitter
Seed catalogs: Love them, but don’t give them your complete faith and trust.
January 30th, 2009 Comments Off
The blog is back! This year we will see if I can keep it going through the busy season. I’ll try to keep my entries short, so I don’t get hopelessly buried.
We are planning for another great year at the farm. The first big round of planning is complete and we have mostly decided on [...]
Tags: herbs · onions · pumpkins · seed catalogs · tomatoes · winter squash