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Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.  After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water Zen Proverb

Lots of bee activity thanks to the sunflowers The birds leave some nutrients on the sunflower leaves that we chop and drop onto the beds, adding a little bit of nutrients back to the field La Milpa de Maiz Azul Pole bean at base of Sunflower

http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/597073/what-is-boss Eddie Roscoe        Shoshin Ecological Farming And Gardening Services Design*Install*Maintain 559-307-5358/ 707-595-0757 http://www.shoshinfarming.com

Riding to Work in the Yuba Mundo, doing some compost tea application

The beds are approximately Fifteen Feet long by Three feet wide.  The area had a small hill which had to be graded and the soil itself was covered with a black plastic mulch which was ripped out.  The soil in each bed is the original soil that was in the ground, amended with compost acquiredContinue reading “Updated Pic: Cinder Block Garden with hybrid irrigation system”

I started prepping this field near about the end of March.  Had I been able to to disc and get the bed shaper in a week earlier I would have been able to take advantage of a nice storm system to establish a  turnip cover crop. I wanted to use in-line drip poly hose, butContinue reading “East of Fresno”

 I’ve been starting some seeds lately, using whatever containers i could find to fill with some potting mix.  One of the draw-backs of using whatever you find is that you can go through quite a bit of soil mix filling those containers, and end up wasting a lot of it with needless depth.  I wantedContinue reading “Soil Block Trays From Cedar Fencing Board and Redwood Rough Board”

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1/2″ line comes up at the edge of the bed from a “T” fitting 4 or 5 inches below ground.  A 5 inch piece of 1/2″ line comes out from the “T”, going into an elbow fitting.  Out of the elbow fitting is a short piece of poly line that goes into the valve shown.Continue reading “Header Configuration for Brassica Bed”