Here’s a little of the stuff that has been keeping me occupied since we started our new urban farming business at the beginning of 2012. On the business development side, I have now signed an L.L.C. Operating Agreement, used my U.B.I. to open a bank account, bought fertilizer using an Agrigultural Reseller Permit, ordered business [...]
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I’ve been learning Organic growing practices on my farms these last two seasons. I thought I should go into Organic a little bit and explain why I think it’s important. Many people I talk to seem to have a poor opinion of organic or don’t understand why one would want to use organic practices. I [...]
Filed under: opinion, philosophical ramblings, Seeds, soils | Tagged: agriculture, conventional agriculture, genetically modified, GMO, Monsanto, organic, pesticide, roundup, sustainable | 2 Comments »
Today I prepared my garlic seed for planting tomorrow. Betsey always saves seed from her own garlic and selects the biggest cloves to plant, thereby improving her stock each year. I was lucky enough to be able to buy some heads of garlic from her last weekend and today I sat down to break the [...]
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