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Entries Tagged as 'seed starting'
What’s a Cloche?
April 18th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Blog
Starting Beans
April 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Suddenly it’s raining every day. Too wet to plant things outdoors. But a perfect time to get things started in seed trays in the classroom. I read three times a week to one of the classes at my daughter’s charter school and in spring our attention turns to the garden. Sprouting seeds is always a [...]
Tags: beans·school gardens·seed starting
Winter’s Revenge
March 8th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
Leigh Hauter said he never saw it coming. “I didn’t realize it was getting that cold,” he said of the afternoon the Big Freeze descended. “We went for a walk and the water in the boiler was already frozen.” The wood-fired boiler in question is the one that heats farmer Hauter’s greenhouse and his thousands [...]
Tags: Bull Run Farm·chickens·eggs·greenhouse·seed starting·spring·winter
We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House.
