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Today’s fine selection of weeds. Wow.

Live From the Farm: Weeds
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Weeds!

by Farmer Jay on May 29, 2009

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Weeds!  I mentioned in a previous post that I wanted to wait until the plants established themselves before I pulled any weeds out (I wasn’t sure what was a weed and what was a plant).  I must have waited too long.  I’m almost done pulling weeds and look how much I’ve pulled out.  Remember, this [...]

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The start of summer is here.  There are two great writers coming to Chicago. Check out:

Alice Waters of Chez Panisse fame will be at the Green City Market at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum (2430 N. Cannon Dr.) on April 25th from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., signing her book, The Edible Schoolyard. [amazon-product]0811862801[/amazon-product]

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Various items for the week:
Green City Market
Saturday from 8:00 am – 1:00 pm
The last of the Green City Indoor Markets (we’re moving back outside!). The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, 2430 N. Cannon, will host The Market inside the Museum from 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
I will be getting my eggs there as well as [...]

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Square Foot Gardening

by Farmer Jay on April 13, 2009

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A new concept this year in at the Farm is Square Foot Gardening.
If you haven’t look to the far right column, you’ll notice that I farm 200 square feet including walking space around the plots.  There are 8 plots in on the farm and normally I grow in short rows.  The picture to the right [...]

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Random thoughts for the weekend:

Tending the Stanford Garden – Article from the Stanford Daily on farming education and maintaining a vegetable garden at Stanford.
Growing Grain on a small scale – From Treehugger, their guide to growing grains in a home garden.
City Farm Spring Start, Saturday, April 18, 2009, 10am to 2pm
Join the Resource Center’s City [...]

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