FARM TOUR: AUGUST EDITION.

Wendell in August.

Trying to take an honest and simple farm tour video every couple months so you can see how the farm is progressing (or sometimes regressing). Watch it HERE. Anyhow, hope you enjoy! Like Wendell..

-Farmer Jesse     

DRY FARMING + PUTTING FOOD BY.

VIDEO HERE.

Dry farming is an emotional business, and frankly probably not worth the risk if it’s not absolutely necessary. But, naturally, we do a little bit of dry farming on a few of our plots because, well, irrigation is expensive and we just haven’t quite got there yet. So anyway, in this week’s VLOG I talk about what dry farming is and the keys to surviving it. What I don’t talk about is whether or not one needs to use all caps from VLOG. I don’t do it for blog, but blog looks like a real word. Vlog does not. Even my spellcheck agrees—neither the all caps VLOG nor the all lowercase blog get red underline. So yeah, it just looks wrong.Anyhow, I also tack on a little thing about food preservation. So there. -Farmer Jesse

WANT A WEED FREE GARDEN? THIS IS ALL YOU’LL NEED (WITH VIDEO)

VIDEO HERE.

Weeds can be a crippling obstacle when running a garden. They can steal nutrients and suck the life out of the soil (and the spirit out of the farmer). So per a request (which we do take video requests because my career as a musician skilled enough to take song requests did not pan out nor, if I’m being honest, ever really begin), we put together a video about how to manage weeds on the farm. Or, at least, how we manage ours.In said video you will also hear that we are doing what I am calling a “ridiculous weekly contest” on our YouTube, giving away things (arguably ridiculous ones) from the week. Will they always be ridiculous? I make no promises, but you will only know when we give away a t-shirt or a trip to T-Shirtopia (not a place) if you SUBSCRIBE to our channel! That way you will get the updates because some of these contest submissions will be time sensitive. Actually, all of them will be, so there’s your incentive!So do that, watch the video, send in your video requests, subscribe to our YouTube and let us know what you think. About anything really—science, math, agriculture, ridiculous contests, lemmings, totally your call. Especially lemmings, though. I’m very curious. - Farmer Jesse

FALL GARDEN + NEW MUSHROOMS + SWEET CORN LOVE (WITH VIDEO)

VIDEO HERE.

Taking a stroll around the farm on our YouTube today and talking about some of the things we have going on including the new residents of our intern cabin who are really a couple of fungis.Okay, you kind of have to say that one aloud to appreciate it. Also, since fungi is already plural neither I, nor my spellcheck, actually believe “fungis” is a word. But you know, things are always funnier when you explain them.Anywho, enjoy and don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube while you’re there! -Farmer Jesse