In December I was a guest on the Permaculture Voices podcast. I spoke with Diego Footer about the profitability of growing seeds for sale, differences between growing seed crops and market vegetable crops, and how much space a seed crop actually takes. You can listen to the podcast here. This podcast is a lead up … More Talking Seeds On Permaculture Voices Podcast
We’ve been running our farm as a workers cooperative for 10 years now. You can find out a little bit more about our experience in the podcast and guidebook mentioned below. Interview about coops on The Ruminant Last week I spoke to Jordan Marr of The Ruminant podcast about the cooperative aspects of Tourne-Sol farm. … More Talking about running a Cooperative Farm
I’ve been a bit slow on posts over the last 15 months. (Coincidentally about the same amount of time that Stella has been in our lives!) Nonetheless I’ve been busy with seeds and have thought of many fantastic blog posts I could write. And maybe in 2014, I will write some of those posts. In … More Seedy Reading and Listening For The Holiday Season
Over the last 10 days I’ve been cleaning the brassica seed we harvested in June from overwintered plants. This is to clear some space for spring planted brassica seed crops that are ready for harvest. I’ve already written about our brassica seed cleaning techniques. However this year I used some different threshing methods: Your choice … More More ways to clean brassica seeds
With snowy times upon us; and my regular work hours tossed around by a combination of families, friends, holiday seasons, and cross-country skiing; and putting together our 2011 seed catalog; I’ve had a bit of trouble scheduling in some computer time to write a new post. I thought it might be easiest to look back … More Cleaning Brassica Seeds
If you want to know, you can follow Gigi (Ghislain Jutras) on his blog Agriculture bio et agroécologie across the province of Quebec, and at times throughout the world (most recently California). Gigi went online just before Christmas and regularly posts profiles of farm he’s visited, agricultural news, ressources and references, and more. (Recently, he did write … More What’s Happening on Organic Farms in Quebec and Beyond?