Posted in Active Fallow, For Kids, Nyland Plot on June 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Today was the first “harvest” at our Nyland plot:
a delicious sweet pea
and a spicy radish!
It is a pretty awesome feeling when you loosen the soil around the radish, pull on the leaves and this nice red radish pops out. My sons were really proud that their watering has paid off. In their excitement they wanted [...]
Posted in Nyland Plot on June 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I am sad to tell you that one of the goats has passed away after a few short weeks of a mysterious illness.
It all started with the goat refusing to eat and not getting up. Even the vet couldn’t figure out what was wrong but started the goat on antibiotics anyway. After a few days [...]
Posted in Active Fallow, Nyland Plot on June 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday we were out at Nyland’s watering our plot and minding our own business when an ear deafening screech right ahead of us made us jump and drop the hose. A stray water jet has made somebody hiding out in the tall grass adjacent to our plot a very unhappy camper.
Seconds later, a beautiful pheasant [...]
Posted in For Kids, Nyland Plot on May 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Our kids love to feed the pet goats at the Nyland cohousing community. They even pick the fresh, juice, thick, green grass that is growing around our plot.
Posted in Nyland Plot on May 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It was time to till a row in our Nyland plot so that we could transplant some Kabocha squash, okra and broccoli seedlings along with some greens and corn.
As I was digging with my shovel, suddenly a piece of soil jumped a foot in the air – well, and I jumped about a yard backwards [...]
Posted in Active Fallow, Backyard Plot, Nyland Plot, Projects on May 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I thought it would be interesting to measure the Active Fallow impact on the soil and went ahead with the purchase of a simple soil test kit at Home Depot.
I took 4 different samples across the Nyland plot and 3 different samples across the backyard plot. Following the instructions I got the following soil test [...]
Posted in Active Fallow, Nyland Plot on May 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Okay, most of our seed potatoes have arrived and it was time to put them into the ground.
We headed over to our Nyland plot, tilled the “potato lanes” and planted our potatoes (Yukon Gold) and Jerusalem artichokes with corn, bok choi, nappa and greens… and ran out of tilled soil…
Oh, boy, we will have to [...]
Posted in Active Fallow, Nyland Plot on April 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Ah, we are done with the first part of planting at the cohousing plot. Now I am curious to see how things will grow and ultimately taste.
We created one long aisle down the length of our plot marking off the beds (6′ and 5′ wide) with lots of flags so that it was [...]
Posted in For Kids, Nyland Plot on April 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
About three weeks ago a whole bunch of baby chicks have arrived at the cohousing community and are a magnet for the kids. Every time we are at the field we have to go by and check on their wellbeing and progress. They are cute and their constant little peeping is actually quite soothing… they [...]
Posted in Active Fallow, Nyland Plot on April 11, 2007 | 4 Comments »
On to the next plot at the cohousing community.
Now this was the more challenging plot because we wanted to dig up a pretty sizable bed to experience Active Fallow on a “larger” scale. So after meeting with Sandy on site to determine where we should place the plot and measuring out the plot, my family [...]
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