Soil Health
Liming Acid Soil on a Small Farm Without Overdoing It
A soil report comes back with a pH of 5.4, and the recommendation box says two tons of lime per acre.
Equipment and farm income writer, page 2 of 9
Silas services his own tractor and sells produce at the same farmers market every Saturday, which means his writing about equipment and pricing has to survive contact with an actual ledger. He is blunt about what does not pay for itself.
Soil Health
A soil report comes back with a pH of 5.4, and the recommendation box says two tons of lime per acre.
Tools and Machinery
Three acres of vegetables, a hay patch and a quarter mile of lane is the size of farm where people start pricing compact...
Growing Food
Last October I stacked 140 butternut squash in the barn loft and lost 31 of them to soft rot before Christmas.
Games
Anyone who has wintered on a working farm knows the particular shape of a January evening.
Soil Health
Most compost piles are not really composting, they are just slowly rotting.
Games
Harvest is the part of farming that gets all the attention, but anyone who has actually grown grain knows the harder question...