Category «chickens»

Farm biochar flowchart

How does biochar fits into our farm?  I scribbled a flowchart onto paper, and today put it into the computer; it looks like this: Ideally, it’s a continuously flowing cycle; there is no “waste” and no need for unsustainable inputs; that’s the goal.  The chickens provide meat and eggs to the humans, and poop to …

Sunflowers

Most of what i’ve been up to on the farm recently relates to biochar, but to keep this from becoming an all-biochar blog, here’s a bit about the garden. I grew a patch of sunflowers this summer, planted mid-April. I needed to use row covers, to protect the seeds and sprouts from birds, until the …

➤