Here's an experiment that I'm toying with after finding years and years of old phone books lying around our office space.  True, there are phone book recycling services, but I figured I'd try to turn these phone books into a tool for producing food.  Lord knows people have plenty of old phone books lying [...]

 Producing oyster mushrooms in our small, urban farm has proven a rewarding experience. The above photo was taken several weeks after inoculation into freshly cut elm logs. Inoculation was done using plug spawn, or wooden dowels heavily colonized with oyster mushroom mycelium. I used a high powered drill to perforate the inoculation [...]

 It's a modest harvest, to be sure, but the significance for us as a family is still profound.  And this is for a few reasons.  First, this is a variety of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) native to the State of New Mexico, known as New Mexico bolitas in the northern part of the [...]

I've been out of the blogging world for way too long now. I go through those periods where I just don't feel like blogging much, but inevitably I start to miss it, and so back again. And though [...]

This past Saturday we had our first real taste of heavy frost. In anticipation, on Friday I brought in a couple of tomatoes that had germinated in the compost, harvested and dried all of my basil [...]