Mark and I were talking farming every night, checking out books from the library, and watching a lot of videos on compost, soil microbiology, and no-till practices. But how do we actually get started with this whole farming thing? We probably shouldn’t quit our jobs tomorrow. Right? So we decided to visit the farmers who originally inspired us – Elizabeth and Paul Kaiser of Singing Frogs Farm. When we heard Elizabeth and Paul talk about their farm we loved their…
I had no idea that plowing was bad! In my own garden I diligently turned over the winter cover crop and raked the surface smooth again. I thought I was helping to create a fluffy weed-free environment. I was wrong! First, tilling (plowing) messes with a complex underground ecosystem that is essential for healthy plants. Disturbing the fungi that access nutrients and process them into forms that plants need or the microbes that produce compounds that promote plant growth or…
We might be having a mini-collective-mid-life crisis at our house. Both of us have jobs that sound perfectly fine on paper. We have good benefits and lovely co-workers. And both of us start to have panic attacks when we think about spending the next 30 years in front of a computer. So we come home from work and daydream. “Should we farm seaweed? I heard on a podcast that it could be an amazing way to sequester carbon and a…