Tag: Farming
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Biochar
So we live in big clay land out here in most of the PNW. That means soils that aren’t very conducive to growing anything but PINE, FIR, CEDAR, and ALDER. Well, we want to put in a small orchard. That’s been a thought tickling the back of our minds since we started looking at land.…
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Our Constraints and Advantages
My husband reads a lot. And he reads really quickly. This means he reads almost everything. During the pandemic while our backyard garden was in full bloom he picked up The Resilient Farm and Homestead by Ben Falk. Dan told me I had to read it. SO…I did. As someone who grew up with grandparents…
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Looking for Land…
In all the wrong places. When we started this journey of looking for a place to call our own in the wilderness of WA, we found a dream place. It had a fast running creek. It was covered in older growth forest. It had a small clearing we could call our own and could put…
Olympic Homestead 