What is a bed foot? A bed foot is a one foot long slice in your growing bed. I like thinking in bed feet rather than square feet because it lays a clear framework for thinking about your fields. Right off the bat you don’t have to worry whether your numbers include your paths or … More Bed Feet should be your BFF
What is a weed? Weeds are those plants you don’t want growing in your garden. Even if last year, you really wanted those plants to be thriving in that very same spot.This is extra true for seed growers. One year ,you do everything you can to get the biggest fattest arugula seeds.But you can never … More Crop Rotation For Seed Growers
The title of this book says it all. It’s a manual to help your Plan Your Crop Rotation. It’s got tons of information and some beautiful tables of the rotations on a number of top notch vegetable farms. This book is solid but I’m a bit hesitant to recommend it if you’re new to crop … More Book Review: Crop Rotation On Organic Farms
There are always a lot of unknowns when you start a farm. And that wasn’t any different for us when we started La Ferme Coopérative Tourne-Sol in the fall of 2004. We were 5 people aged 23-26 year old filled with ideas but no conception yet of what we really wanted down the road. We … More So many unknowns
I picked up Beneath The Concrete on a Zine table after a Food Not Lawns event at McGill University back in early 2000. The zine lived in a cardboard box full of other books for the rest of the semester. I may have flipped through the pages but I didn’t spend much time with it. … More My First Farming Book
After months of anticipation, my first online spreadsheet course is just about here! This week I’m giving two live webinars that will lead into the course. The webinar is called Build A Better Farm Crop Plan (without all the copy pasting, endless columns, and thousands of open tabs) It is about The 3 Things I … More Build A Better Farm Crop Plan
Didn’t we already go through the 10 books of my Top 10 Farm Books Of The Decade? We did, but there is one other book I want to talk about. This is a book that just barely missed being on my list, but as I’ve been posting these last 10 days, I kept wishing it … More All the Dirt: Reflections on Organic Farming – Book Review
This is book 10 of my personal Top 10 Farm Books Of The Decade. I’ve been presenting my Top 10 in order of publication. Farming While Black Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman Leah Penniman has written a complete farming manual that covers all steps from soil prep … More Farming While Black – Book Review
This is book nine of my personal Top 10 Farm Books Of The Decade. I’m presenting my Top 10 in order of publication. Next up ,,, The Greenhouse and Hoophouse Grower’s Handbook Organic Vegetable Production Using Protected Culture by Andrew Mefferd In the spring of 2017, after the snow melted at Tourne-Sol farm, it started … More
This is book eight of my personal Top 10 Farm Books Of The Decade. I’m presenting my Top 10 in order of publication. Next up ,,, The Farmer’s Office Tools, Tips and Templates to Successfully Manage a Growing Farm Business by Julia Shanks I’m an easy audience for books like The Farmer’s Office. They bring … More The Farmer’s Office – Book Review