Crop Protection
Floating Row Cover for Pest Control on a Small Farm
Flea beetles shred your brassica transplants in four days, cabbage worms show up the week after, and the spray you reached for...
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Every guide we have published, newest first. Field notes, equipment breakdowns, and the occasional argument with advice that sounds good in a magazine and falls apart on an actual plot.
Crop Protection
Flea beetles shred your brassica transplants in four days, cabbage worms show up the week after, and the spray you reached for...
Soil Health
A lab test tells you pH and phosphorus, but it will not tell you whether your soil is alive and working.
Crop Protection
A zucchini plant can look perfect at breakfast and lie flat by mid afternoon, leaves wilted as if nobody had watered it in a...
Tools and Machinery
A dull stirrup hoe doubles the time it takes to clear a 100 foot bed, and most of that extra effort ends up in your lower back.
Growing Food
I once sowed four 50 foot beds of Bolero carrots in early June and got maybe forty seedlings across all of them.
Soil Health
A soil report comes back with a pH of 5.4, and the recommendation box says two tons of lime per acre.