Found potential land

Craigslist came through for us again!
We’ve used Craigslist before for selling some of our stuff before our move and were very happy with that experience. Although, you do need to take some precautions and screen people as they are strangers. Back then the response was so fast that we ended up sleeping on the floor [...]

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Sprouting sprouts

While we, the grownups, were busy trying to get setup for Active Fallow our two kids asked so many questions about growing plants and vegetables that I decided to grow some sprouts at home and give them a hands on experience.
Sprouts are so easy to grow, don’t require anything special and they grow so fast [...]

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Second, get a contract

I highly recommend that once you find land to use to get a signed contract with the landowner to avoid any unpleasant surprised down the road.
It would be a pity to lose all your work and produce two thirds through the growing season because of some “misunderstanding” that could have been avoided by just writing [...]

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Land search options

As a renter it’s a bit trickier to get started because you don’t own any land. On top of that, I’ve only recently moved here with my family so that I don’t have a large network to put the word out on. But here are a few options that we came up with to try:

Farm [...]

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Acres, square yards and square feet

Now that I knew how much land I needed to look for it was time for me to visualize how big that really was. Unknowingly I was going to get a little challenge thrown my way. So how about this one:
How big is a plot of 1/10 of an acre?
Being somewhat removed from the measurements [...]

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First, set a “destination”

There are so many possibilities and variations on having your own garden. You can have a container garden, a backyard garden, a small plot of land, an acre, a whole farm,… where should one begin?
Ask Coastalfields.
They happily agreed to a conference call in a few days to discuss the answers to a list of questions [...]

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Bug Hunt Turns Into Land Hunt

Let me backtrack a bit to shed some light on how I ended up an Active Fallow apprentice.
After discovering Coastalfields website about a month ago I wanted to visit their farm to check out how this Active Fallow works before signing up for their all-you-can-eat program. It just sounded too good to be true and [...]

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From a Google search to “Active Fallow” apprentice

What started as a simple Google search for better and cheaper locally grown produce might just turn into a whole new life experience not just for me but my whole family.
I have had the pleasure of meeting two very generous and enthusiastic farmers (Mary Choate and Aaron Brachfeld of Coastalfields farm) that have developed an [...]

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