It’s our first workshop in Pennsylvania! And what better way to kick off the curriculum than with an organic garden work party! Come learn how to turn your lawn into an thriving, abundant, edible paradise! Lee has designed a simple raised bed vegetable garden for a woman who was interested in growing her own food. [...]
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Organic Garden Workshop/ Work Party: 6/12/10
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged building, community, events, garden, planting, workshop on June 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
How to Build the Easiest Cold Frame Ever
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged building, cold frame on April 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A cold frame is kind of like a mini greenhouse, protecting tender plants from frost so you can harvest salad through the winter or get a head start on summer crops. Plants grown in a cold frame will be stronger than those started indoors; a day with the glass removed is enough to harden them [...]
Chicken Tractor, version 1.0
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ark, building, chicken tractor, chickens, coop on April 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s our new chicken tractor, housing 5 happy hens, built with scrap wood and chicken wire. Even though we move it every day or so, there are many advantages of a chicken tractor over a stationary coop. We don’t have to let them out early in the morning or close them up at night (we get to take vacations!), or clean out a coop, and they mow the lawn. Plus we’ve been letting them scratch at our future garden beds, eating the grass, aerating the soil, and fertilizing with their poops. It’s the portrait of mutual benefit!
