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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>Pickled Radishes Part II</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/07/02/pickled-radishes-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost two years ago, I wrote about an attempt to pickle radishes just by slicing them and putting them, mixed with the brine, in a Clausen pickle jar.&#160; Recently, on the comment thread for that post, Rob asks &#34;So how'd it go?&#34;.&#160; Good question, Rob. &#160;&#160;I admit, I've been negligent in my duty to report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building Healthy Soils</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/05/14/building-healthy-soils/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 00:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microfarm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mycelium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New-Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Organic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[


 

As I mentioned several weeks ago, we are in the process of rebuilding our soil fertility in our garden.  One great service that I will personally attest to is that provided by a local company called Organic Technology International.  For $65, I brought them a soil sample and had it analyzed.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Return to the United States</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2008/04/25/return-to-the-united-states/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evo-Morales]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
I am back in the United States, having left Bolivia almost a week and half ago.  There are many things in the Bolivian sphere I could comment on, but I am reluctant to do so. 

 

In short, I will comment on a few observations.  Any hope that people might have had of [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
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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>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>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/09/25/early-fall-harvesting-radishes/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<description><![CDATA[
     

     
    
    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>
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		<description><![CDATA[     

     
    
    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>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 23:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
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		<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>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/09/06/pesto-time/#comments</comments>
		<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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
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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>
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		<category><![CDATA[seed]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
 

&#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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
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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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