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Looking at Europe from Asia
Islam, Muslims, and an Anthropologist | October 3rd 2008 by Dr Gabriele Marranci
Finally I have reached my destination and I am fully connected so that I can now go back to my blog after nearly two months of neglect. I am in Singapore, at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. My new office has a window read more
Digging up potatoes
Tiny Farm Blog | October 2nd 2008
There’s still about 1,000′ of potatoes to dig, a few Yukon Gold, lots of Kennebec, and maybe a bed of Chieftain. This time around, it’s a bit of an unconventional approach. Some beds were kinda…weedy, so a week back, I mowed t read more
Sweet potato harvest
Tiny Farm Blog | October 1st 2008
From planting back in mid-June, it’s been 3-1/2 months to the sweet potato harvest. The variety, Beauregard, is listed as 80-100 days to maturity, although, like potatoes, you can dig them up anytime, as soon as the tubers have formed. The vin read more
Friday harvests get quicker!
Tiny Farm Blog | September 26th 2008
Friday harvests are getting quicker as the season winds down. This has happened at least for the last couple of years. Where earlier in the season, we finish around 8-9pm, we’re now mostly wrapped up by 5 or 6, and sometimes with less people th read more
Beautifying the good garlic
Tiny Farm Blog | September 25th 2008
Toshiko, WWOOFing from Osaka, Japan, via Vancouver, where she’d been studying English for the last few months, is our last guest in the field of the year. She arrived last Friday night, and stays until a week from this Sunday, two weeks in all. read more
Pumpkins and pigweed
Tiny Farm Blog | September 23rd 2008
Today, the pumpkins came in, wrested from a jungle of pigweed gone wild. Every year, a few of the 40 50′x50′ sections that make up the 2.5 acre garden get a little overrun with one weed or another (usually, pigweed). This year’s pum read more
Fall frost watch 2008
Tiny Farm Blog | September 15th 2008
Tonight is the first real frost watch of the year. I covered a bunch of beds for a couple of nights last week, but the chance of frost seemed slim, with the overnight forecast around 35°F (<2°C). Today, they say it’s supposed to go down t read more
Fall harvest
Tiny Farm Blog | September 12th 2008
We’re definitely into fall weather now: the thermometer may still read “warm” but there’s always a cool edge in the air. This is the best field-working weather, you can go on for hours. Today was a bit damp, and the abundant r read more
Violet returns: visiting with worms
Tiny Farm Blog | September 12th 2008
Young Violet (2) returned to the field, sans siblings. She seemed to have fun on her first garden visit, on a sunny afternoon—today’s cool, cloudy, wet conditions didn’t faze her in the least. Interacting with earthworms occupied a good read more
Trimming garlic
Tiny Farm Blog | September 9th 2008
From the long stack of garlic drying in the barn, we’ve been taking out about a bushel a week since harvest began in late July. Today, we finished preparing the rest of the harvest. Lynn, Raechelle and Mel snipped the stems and sorted at the sa read more
Fantastic egg tray technology!
Tiny Farm Blog | September 6th 2008
OK, so they’re just regular cardboard egg trays from the commercial kitchen world, and they’ve probably been around exactly like this for decades. BUT, they haven’t been around HERE. Lynn recycled them from a folk festival she was a read more
Cutting spinach
Tiny Farm Blog | September 5th 2008
Spinach has kinda been the star of the harvest for the last couple of weeks. After a “normal” hot, dry summer, it’s usually not around at this time of year. This season, with all the rain, spinach is in abundance: glossy, deep green read more
After the row cover: weeding!
Tiny Farm Blog | September 4th 2008
After about a month, we permanently removed the row cover from the last transplanting of fall brassicas, two sections with about 20 x 50′ beds in all. The cover protected against flea beetles, and at this point in the season, the FBs aren’ read more
More post-harvest action
Tiny Farm Blog | August 29th 2008
If it’s Friday, it must be time to harvest! After a beautiful weather week with barely a cloud in sight, an otherwise welcome gentle rain today meant a bit of a muddy harvest. Here, the picking and pulling has all been done, and we’re abo read more
Good beans…
Tiny Farm Blog | August 22nd 2008
Just a few sunny days and the new planting of snap beans have sized up perfectly for the Friday harvest. They’re the crop of the week, a shade on the young side, maybe 2-3 days from being fully filled out, super-long and slender, with firm, thi read more
Last of the lettuce
Tiny Farm Blog | August 21st 2008
Can’t quite seem to stop planting! Lynn and Libby put in a last 200 or so lettuce seedlings to see how far they’ll go in fall growth. The soil is still moist an inch (2.5cm) or so down, but the surface is way DRY from a few days of sun an read more
Poor tomatoes
Tiny Farm Blog | August 18th 2008
Checking out the tomatoes’ progress is definitely the least happy task of this season. After removing most of the hail-damaged fruit, there’s not that much left, new growth is slow, and what’s there is taking its time to ripen. Also read more
Post-harvest aftermath
Tiny Farm Blog | August 15th 2008
Sorting and packing after harvest—post-harvest processing!—is in good part a wet job, made a lot messier in rainy weather when root crops come in with a load of mud attached. Once again this season, the main work surface for sorting is a 4′ read more
Scrabbling for potatoes
Tiny Farm Blog | August 14th 2008
Thursdays are potato harvest days. Without a walk-in cooler, the main weekly harvest for CSA and Saturday farmers’ market is mostly confined to Fridays, with potatoes being one of the few crops that can be done a day or two ahead. Towards the e read more
Burlap breaks down
Tiny Farm Blog | August 12th 2008
After a nice long ride, the burlap (of the burlap carrot germination method) is finally breaking down, shredding as we fold it up off the final carrot beds of the season. Even in this wet weather, the burlap makes a big difference, probably because i read more
Harvesting around the rain
Tiny Farm Blog | August 8th 2008
Have I mentioned that it’s been RAINING a lot all summer, like, a few times a day? We’ve taken to planning the Friday harvest to fit the slots between downpours, using…weather radar on the web! It works pretty well, checking the nat read more
Pigweed rehabilitated?
Tiny Farm Blog | August 7th 2008
You’ve gotta respect pigweed. It’s resourceful, extremely flexible and adaptable, prolific…it just keeps on coming! It’s managed to grow in tiny dirt deposits, through rust holes in the trailer we use to get things around the read more
Laid back Friday harvest…
Tiny Farm Blog | August 1st 2008
With the poor weather-driven slow growth and setbacks (like, hail), Friday harvests so far this year have been nothing like last year, much easier, less to do, relaxed. There are usually three to five people for all or part of the day, compared to si read more
Garlic all in
Tiny Farm Blog | July 30th 2008
Harvested in three parts over the last week, the garlic is now all in! This crop seems to’ve done well once again (I LOVE growing garlic!). For the first time, there’s a small pile of damaged goods, water-logged from all the rain. But ove read more
Hail damage reassessed
Tiny Farm Blog | July 29th 2008
Three days after the nasty hail storm, and the full extent of the crop damage is more evident. It’s quite a bit worse than it first appeared. The plants will bounce back, but we’ve lost a lot of the fruit that were furthest along. Little read more
Massive new potatoes
Tiny Farm Blog | July 24th 2008
Our first potatoes of the year are HUGE, some of the biggest potatoes I’ve grown by far. I guess they really liked the rain. First dug: Yukon Gold and Chieftain. As usual, the harvest method is as manual as it gets: crawling along the rows, pul read more
Digging garlic
Tiny Farm Blog | July 23rd 2008
Considering that our clayey soil has hardly had a chance to dry out with all the rain, this year’s garlic is looking good. With Lynn digging away, the first third of the garlic patch is up and stacked to dry in the barn. I’d been worried read more
Beans and big weeds
Tiny Farm Blog | July 22nd 2008
Hand pulling big weeds is a regular garden feature this summer of rainy, weed-favoring weather. In the before and after, the second and third plantings of snap beans (Jade and Indy Gold) are disappearing under soaring lamb’s quarters and pigwee read more
More carrots
Tiny Farm Blog | July 22nd 2008
Wouldn’t DREAM of starting carrots without the burlap method now. Maria and Lynn remove burlap from the third planting of the season, using the fold and fold again approach rather than rolling it up… read more
Cut flowers arrive
Tiny Farm Blog | July 14th 2008
Zinnias bloom! At least, a few varieties are starting, along with many of the other cut flowers in this year’s trial bed. Much of last year’s first trial bed wound up worse for the wear after drought and infrequent weeding. This year, I t read more
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