Category: Marcos minifarm

The rain took me by storm, I mean by surprise. Though I failed to re-connect one of my rain barrels, once connected in a few hours it had about 20 gallons. I’m currently at about 1150 gallons, which is around 98% of capacity. It seems possible that I can go through the summer on rainwater, […]

Well, I’ve been planning this for a while, and I’ve finally started on an 8′ tomato frame. See, last year we grew a Sun Gold cherry tomato that got huge, made the best tomatoes, and didn’t really want to die… Unfortunately, it became a giant cloud of chaos with powdery mildew that my gopher could […]

I must tell you about Bokashi composting… This is a fermentation technique that was invented in either Japan or Korea, that allows you compost cheese, dairy, meets, onions, citrus, really anything organic. Note you will run into problems composting the above things using an aerobic method, because they tend to smell, inhibit bacteria, or rot […]

So, I have a 3×4′ lettuce bed that it seems I cannot exhaust. It grows in a highly shaded area, and I hope to have lettuce year-round. One thing I now want is to grow multiple varieties – curly red lettuces, green ones, leafy ones, do I know their names? No. But I think variety […]

So one of the things I did at the beginning of the year was attempt to grow things that would fit into a few recipes I liked. One of those things was a salad mix. So, I started growing 3 different kinds of lettuces and arugula. The lettuces in my 3×4′ are phenomenally productive, and […]

I made an important connection recently. It is not enough to grow food then sell it. Before then you must eat it. Let me share with you what I wrote to my doctor: Hi Dr. Niefeld, sorry for the delays, I read through the information you sent regarding statins and their side effects, and would […]

Been a while since I’ve posted. Since that time, a lot has been done, one of which is the completion of the pea wall. First pea harvest less than a week away. I’m pretty excited about the trellising possibilities this gives me, for say cannelini beans or cucumbers, but also it may provide a micro […]

There’s something satisfying about creating a new space, then entering into it.

I needed a seven foot or so trellis for my peas, and was first thinking about making something out of PVC pipe. But then, I remembered a neighbors bamboo tree that had crept under the fence… So I got all permaculturey and decided to give the bamboo trellis a shot. Getting to the bamboo roots has […]