A lifelong passion for anything landscape and garden related: Design , construction, maintenance, horticulture, farming, botany, and recently writing to put into perspective
Author: mikoiko66
Career Posting for a Homestead Farmer
(This is a photo of my first kitchen garden and campsite in my rookie year homesteading circa 1994 ) The few job postings I've come across for farming are usually for minimum wage labouring on commercial farms. You might be …
Our 2018 Farming Season in a Nutshell: Part 3 (Late summer/Fall)
The third instalment of Mike Roger's season recap, or Why Farming is Not for the Faint of Heart.
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Our 2018 Farming Season in a nutshell: Part 2 (Late Spring/Early Summer)
This is the second instalment of Mike Roger's recap of the rollercoaster farming season of 2018. For part 1, click here. So, here we are at the end of April, with a grow room full of tiny, compromised seedlings (see part …
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Our 2018 Farming Season in a Nutshell: Part 1 (Earlyspring)
In farming, no two years are ever similar, with hits, misses, trials and tribulations. You often add a few experiments, delete a few duds, and try to improve infrastructure and efficiency. Nature is fickle however, and like anything in life, …
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The pros and cons of having WWOOFers
Q; What is a Wwoofer? A: Its a dog that pulls weeds! Jokes aside, WWoof can be an acronym for either World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms or Willing Workers on Organic Farms depending on the area and its labour …
Navigating through all the Greenwash
Theres no doubt people in these parts are more and more concerned and conscious about what they ingest. After all, you are not only what you eat but also what your food ate. The organic food industry is a multi-billion …
Whats All The Fuss About Garlic?
There aren't too many plants or food items that gets growers more excited than garlic. Sure, some folks get mushroom fever in the fall, and cannabis is all the rage, but garlic gets almost all gardeners hyped. Why? After all, …
