A few items of note from this weekend.
Our friends at Bay Branch Farm stopped by with their pride and joy - a brand new Grillo tractor tricked out with a Berta Rotary Plow - to help us prepare our newest plot. For breaking new ground the rotary plow is really an invaluable tool and, compared to our previous methods, probably cut our new bed preparation time in half. Whereas a tiller requires multiple passes and a lot of manual labor to break through a thick layer of sod, the rotary plow chews threw, spits out and pretty much pulverizes everything in its path. Needless to say, seeing this bad boy in action made our BCS 712 look like a garden rake.
In an urban area where you can’t exactly contract the local farmer to chisel and disk your land, the two-wheel tractor/rotary plow combo seems like an appropriate technology for breaking new ground at new urban farms. Cheers to Bay Branch for their valuable investment - let’s hope it will benefit many more farmers in the future.
We also began planting garlic this weekend. Looks like we’ll end up with around 15 beds of various hard and softneck varieties, some of which we’ll harvest as green garlic in the Spring. Our garlic planting harnesses (cut open milk jugs with a string run through them) really helped with efficiency as me moved down the rows. Each harness fit almost the exact amount of cloves needed for one bed. We’ve still got quite a bit of seed garlic left - more planting to come in the next few weeks. Look out!
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Planting Garlic and Our New Plot
A few items of note from this weekend.
Our friends at Bay Branch Farm stopped by with their pride and joy - a brand new Grillo tractor tricked out with a Berta Rotary Plow - to help us prepare our newest plot. For breaking new ground the rotary plow is really an invaluable tool and, compared to our previous methods, probably cut our new bed preparation time in half. Whereas a tiller requires multiple passes and a lot of manual labor to break through a thick layer of sod, the rotary plow chews threw, spits out and pretty much pulverizes everything in its path. Needless to say, seeing this bad boy in action made our BCS 712 look like a garden rake.
In an urban area where you can’t exactly contract the local farmer to chisel and disk your land, the two-wheel tractor/rotary plow combo seems like an appropriate technology for breaking new ground at new urban farms. Cheers to Bay Branch for their valuable investment - let’s hope it will benefit many more farmers in the future.
We also began planting garlic this weekend. Looks like we’ll end up with around 15 beds of various hard and softneck varieties, some of which we’ll harvest as green garlic in the Spring. Our garlic planting harnesses (cut open milk jugs with a string run through them) really helped with efficiency as me moved down the rows. Each harness fit almost the exact amount of cloves needed for one bed. We’ve still got quite a bit of seed garlic left - more planting to come in the next few weeks. Look out!