Bernie On Small Scale Agriculture

Senator Bernie has been holding Town meetings throughout the state to gather people’s ideas about the economy. While health care for everyone was top on the list, here is an excerpt from the May 30th, 2009 meeting up in Richford, Vermont that speaks to his support for small scale agriculture and locally based food [...]

Garden Progress

I managed to get a really good start on a small greenhouse this Spring. The unfortunate part was that I was way too late to have it be of much use this season. In any case, there is always the Fall when I will complete the greenhouse by covering it with polyethylene sheeting [...]

Spring

As the first day of Spring comes and goes, its a little daunting to look outdoors and see a fresh 6+ inches of  snow. It’s been cold and windy out. I’ve been sick with a cold. But it will be getting warmer soon. Time to rest up.

Germination!

Some of the seeds I planted germinated. The Gunnison onions are up. The peppers are partly up. The Copra onions are not. Neither are the eggplants.
I received a “farmers hoe” which I ordered from Seeds of Change. $50. An awesome, apparently hand wrought implement made in Japan. Nicely balanced. Primitive…but effective in [...]

I know its early but I started my garden

Even though its nasty outside with sleet and freezing rain coating the trees and downing power lines (our power was off for about three hours tonight) I managed to plant three flats of onion seed and two flats of peppers today. Last year I waited too long to plant the onions and they never [...]

Greenhouse Progress. Even in February

Damn cold out but I managed to drag my self outdoors and start working on this greenhouse. I previously bought three 10 ft lengths of 1 3/8″ diameter galvanized steel chain link fence top rails. I wanted to see if I could bend them to make curved hoops for the greenhouse before buying the [...]

Planning a Greenhouse

Its cold here in Vermont in February. Real cold. Tonight it will get down to around zero degrees F. Imagine being able to walk into a tropical climate. Now that would be really nice.
One way is to have a greenhouse where plants can be grown in a warm environment while its freezing outside. I [...]

In the garden

This year will be a BIG gardening year. Why? With the sinking economy will come a revival of interest in trying to grow a few things at home. Luckily the unemployment rate is still pretty low around here. Once that starts to deteriorate, as it probably will, people will have LOTS of [...]