This week’s we’re GETTING THE GARLIC IN THE GROUND before the rain!!!
They say garlic is the holiday vegetable going in at Halloween (a little later for us), getting weeded and side-dressed at Valentine’s Day and harvested at the 4th of July.
Merith really gets what we're about.
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Diversification: One of the 5 soil health principles, AND a key strategy for building resilience in communities, both virtual and physical. We are diversifying our social media presence to create much-needed resilience in these challenging times.
It’s Summer Squash planting day!! It might be rainy outside so this is a great indoor task. We have three varieties in now and earlier this week our first Cucumbers went in! Come on Spring!
#summersquash #zucchini
#regeneration
#regenerativeagriculture
#sustainablefarming
#soilhealth
#agroecology
Another successful intensive Living Soils Workshop. This weekend we’ll have a Home Farmer Workshop. Growing food, growing farmers, growing soil, growing resilience is all we can do to stay sane in these crazy times. #resilience #livingsoil #regenerativefarming #regeneration #sonomacounty
It’s #InternationalWomensDay and we want to honor the women who over the past year have made this farm rock! Around the world women are responsible for tremendous tending of our Mother Earth, growing food, life and resilience. Not pictured: Lisa, Annalisa, Alice and Sharon. #regenerativeagriculture
2nd round of winter cover crop termination happening today with no soil disturbance! These fields usually flood in the winter and so have fewer rounds of veggies through the year and we cannot grow veggies down here in the winter.
Happy March! We have hit busy season! We have new crew in, old crew coming back after winter vacations, we’re planting like crazy (first cauliflower/lettuce intercrops went in yesterday), weeding today, seeding, putting on workshops, growing our CSA, and excited for the year ahead! #regenerative
#climatesolutions in the agriculture sector includes #notillfarming -reducing the fossil fuel consumption on the farms, retains topsoil & decreases water loss. Article from @washingtonpost.com takes a nice look at this #regenerativeagriculture solution. Less fossil fuels is better for our #health
This #BlackHistoryMonth, we want to uplift the work of member food bank Alameda County Community Food Bank making powerful investments in #FoodJustice through their partnership with Dig Deep Farms. Learn more about their partnership here: www.accfb.org/dig-deep-farm #EquityInAction
Spring Flowers are coming!
It’s hard that Valentine’s Day is in the season of so few flowers. Anemone are the only ones out but soon tulips, narcissus, ranunculus and so much more!! Learn about our Flower CSA in bio.
#yearroundfarming #marketgardening #notill #anemone #slowflowers
Atmospheric River! Yesterday our bottom fields flooded, and by this morning it had all receded and we had sun. We plant cover crops in this flood zone as we cannot grow food crops and to feed and hold the soil. Winter photosynthesis builds up soil biology!
#yearroundfarming #regenerative #notill
It’s Tomato seeding day!! 🍅 and Cucumbers too!! 🥒
Always a big day on the farm as we thinking about our summer crops even in the midst of winter storms.
In past years we’ve started tomatoes as early as last week of December but we’ve found they just don’t do any better. So we keep pushing them back.
On our regenerative farm it is the act of growing cash crops in an intensive system has been most responsible for increasing SOM most. Having succession after succession of young veggie crops without tilling the soil. I know we’re an outlier. I know we use a lot of labor. Just as a juxtaposition.
Op-ed: Increased federal funding for Black farmers—not less—will help US agriculture become more resilient as our climate changes.
Only our Great White Egret friend (hunting rodents and frogs) on the farm this rainy day.
Last week we exited the Persephone Period. 🎉 The Persephone Period is when there are fewer than 10 hrs of sunlight/day which means mist veggies cannot photosynthesize enough for much growth and development.
I was just talking to farmers last week at a conference whose land value is 1/5 of what it was two years ago.
Regenerating the soil building soil life. Building soil life is the beginning of it all: healthy ecosystems, carbon sequestration, nutrient dense foods, resilience in the face of climate chaos! #regenerative #regenag #notillfarming #soilfoodweb
It’s lettuce planting time for early spring here in Northern California! The past 3 weeks have had warm days and freezing nights so these babies get tucked in after water. We’re excited about this new speckled Little Gem variety. #regenerative #regenerativefarming #yearroundfarming #marketfarming
