Crop Protection
Deer Fencing for a Small Farm That Actually Keeps Deer Out
The first year we grew sweet corn on the lower field, deer took about a third of it in four nights.
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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
The first year we grew sweet corn on the lower field, deer took about a third of it in four nights.
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
Push a stiff wire flag into a field the day after a soaking rain.
Crop Protection
Two summers ago I lost 140 feet of fall broccoli to cabbage worms in about nine days.