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	<title>Agroblogger &#187; Microfarm</title>
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		<title>Phone Book Spawn</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/11/15/phone-book-spawn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
 

&#160;Here's an experiment that I'm toying with after finding years and years of old phone books lying around our office space.&#160; True, there are phone book recycling services, but I figured I'd try to turn these phone books into a tool for producing food.&#160; Lord knows people have plenty of old phone books lying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oyster Mushroom Production</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/11/03/oyster-mushroom-production/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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&#160;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bean Harvest &#8216;07</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/10/30/bean-harvest-07/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
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&#160;It's a modest harvest, to be sure, but the significance for us as a family is still profound.&#160; And this is for a few reasons.&#160; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Break</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/09/24/summer-break/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Albuquerque]]></category>
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    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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Squash Bread</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/10/25/squash-bread/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
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    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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pickled Radishes?</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/10/10/pickled-radishes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
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    With such an abundant harvest of radishes in such a short period of time, I've been somewhat hard pressed to figure out what to do with our surplus.   Radishes lose moisture and shrivel within a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Early Fall: Harvesting Radishes</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/09/25/early-fall-harvesting-radishes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[carrots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food-Down-Under]]></category>
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    Only a month after planting, I'm already harvesting a beautiful crop of radishes.   In many ways, radishes are an ideal crop.  They germinate and mature quickly, and they grow wonderfully in association with carrots. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Raptor Returns</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/09/20/the-raptor-returns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Albuquerque]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microfarm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[falcon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hawk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[raptors]]></category>
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    Yesterday, around mid-day, I finally got a chance to snap a photo of the hawk (or falcon?) that's been visiting my garden.  I heard him trilling outside the window, and I went outside to investigate.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Backyard Biodiversity</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/09/11/backyard-biodiversity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Microfarm]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
     

     
    
    After one of the wettest monsoon seasons on record, Albuquerque is blooming with all sorts of life; and our backyard microfarm is about as teeming with life as it gets in the middle of America's suburbs.

  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blossom-End Rot In Squash</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/09/08/blossom-end-rot-in-squash/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/09/08/blossom-end-rot-in-squash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 23:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Microfarm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Organic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blossom-end-rot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[information-intensive-agriculture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
     

    
    For the past two years I've been having this problem with my squash. I'm not a plant pathologist, though I have had some success identifying diseases and insects based on past experience and lots of google searches.

    
  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pesto Time!</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/09/06/pesto-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[basil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pesto]]></category>
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&#160;This is a photo of the basil plant that only a month ago was &#34;a little crushed&#34; and wasn't doing so well.&#160; Well, after plenty of rain and a tomato cage to support its droopy stems, its performing like a champ now.&#160; In fact, this plant has far surpassed its partner one barrel over. &#160;&#160;So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregano</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/08/28/oregano/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/08/28/oregano/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Albuquerque]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microfarm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oregano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spices]]></category>

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    Here's a nice photo of our oregano crop. This is the third year in a row that we will harvest oregano from this whiskey barrel. Oregano is a low  maintenance perennial crop that does very well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Curse of Hybrids</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/08/23/the-curse-of-hybrids/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/08/23/the-curse-of-hybrids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[germplasm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hybrids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seed]]></category>

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&#160;This is a photo of a squash flower that magically appeared in an uncultivated part of the garden.&#160;&#160; A stray seed may have found its way from the compost pile, or it may have been distributed by birds, like this sunflower.&#160; Alot of things appear around the garden like this: corn, squash, watermelon, sunflowers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weeds</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/08/22/weeds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/08/22/weeds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Albuquerque]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microfarm]]></category>
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&#160;These weeds have aggressively colonized our lot.&#160; They are a thorny species, extremely drought tolerant and very prolific.&#160; With the unprecedented moisture falling daily from the sky, these weeds and others have started to take over, especially areas that are not under cultivation. &#160;&#160;According to city law, once the weeds pass 4 inches in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Late Summer Sowing</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/08/21/late-summer-sowing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[soil-management]]></category>
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&#160;Yesterday I planted my second raised bed of the cool season, a mix of carrots, radishes, lettuce and peas.&#160; Thanks to the daily rains we've been having (which is almost unheard of in New Mexico), all should germinate well in the moist ground.&#160; &#160;This past spring I found myself wondering if months of winter drought [...]]]></description>
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