Cover Crop Contemplation

Cover Crop Contemplation

How do we turn our field into an inviting home for the 1,500+ transplants we’ve started in the greenhouse? Our field had a ryegrass cover crop over the winter. Ryegrass is great for cartwheels [see above], soil erosion protection, winter-long photosynthesis, nitrogen scavenging, and weed suppression. It is particularly good at weed suppression because it allelopathic (i.e., it produces chemicals that suppress the growth of other plants). Because of this property, we need to wait at least 2 weeks after…

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Introducing Songbird Haven Farm

Introducing Songbird Haven Farm

I’m so excited to introduce you all to Songbird Haven Farm! We’re launching our farm with a 10-12 person farm share (i.e., community supported agriculture program or CSA) and on-farm events like u-pick days, workshops, and other fun excuses to join us out in Woodinville. It will be a busy spring, summer, and fall. But we think we’ve set ourselves up to launch this endeavor in our “free time” and still have fun. I love “let’s make this thing happen”…

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Featuring These Stars

Featuring These Stars

We haven’t signed a lease on our quarter acre but we’ve had some good conversations with the farm incubator manager. Since it seems like we’re moving forward, I pulled out my crop planning database this weekend to prepare a list of seeds to order. Thank you, October self! I had fun revisiting my fall choices and got excited about them all over again. So I thought I’d share a few of our featured crops that I am most looking forward…

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