{"id":58,"date":"2008-04-16T00:30:30","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T10:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/?p=60"},"modified":"2008-04-16T00:30:30","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T10:30:30","slug":"spring-farm-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2008\/04\/spring-farm-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Farm Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from the usual spring planting, here are some things that have been going on at the farm.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I dug several new beds above and outside the upper garden.  In addition to the usual taro and veggies, i have planted some &#8220;hull-less&#8221; popcorn and a large bed with two different kind of peanuts.  I bought the heirloom peanut seed from organic farms i found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.localharvest.org\/\">LocalHarvest<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>When all the stores were out of Azomite (which we use to add all the minerals our soil lacks) i got a bag of Kelp Meal instead.  Expensive, so i use it sparingly, but seems like great stuff.<\/li>\n<li>I &#8216;activated&#8217; a gallon of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emhawaii.com\/\">EM<\/a> and have started a number of experiments with it, seeing if it affects anaerobic composting and whether it helps to &#8220;balance&#8221; the rough compost.  In addition to the anaerobic tests, there are number of pots with 5 corn plants each, with varying amounts of finished compost and EM.<\/li>\n<li>On a tip from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uluwehifarm.com\/\">Tom Baldwin<\/a>, i am now looking for some <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Azolla\">Azolla<\/a> (aquatic fern) as a way to grow nutritious feed for my chickens.<\/li>\n<li>I gave a talk on biochar at a local gathering of farmers, a seed exchange\/potluck event held in Honokaa every other month.  Lots of other biochar news, but that&#8217;s another blog post..<\/li>\n<li>I gave a talk on <em>How To Eat Local<\/em>, at the Waimea library.  Only a few people showed, but the talk went well.  I hope to give the talk to a big audience at some point.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are the new upper beds as of a couple weeks ago.  That brand-new bed is now full of peanuts:<a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/bdiscoe\/Farm2008\/photo#5189787486720210418\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/bdiscoe\/Farm2008\/photo#5189787486720210418\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/bdiscoe\/SAXUOPW5tfI\/AAAAAAAAAb8\/Jb4aJbYWNqs\/s288\/DSC02633.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from the usual spring planting, here are some things that have been going on at the farm. I dug several new beds above and outside the upper garden. In addition to the usual taro and veggies, i have planted &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2008\/04\/spring-farm-update\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crops","category-food","category-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}