Nicky and Dave Schauder are passionate about helping families grow their food, and medicine and find God in the garden. Learn how to build your own permaculture guild. Get our Guild Guide when you sign up!
What I finally got done
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Hello Reader! I'll just say that up front. I had grand plans for this week: Double-digging the Zone 1 beds so I could finally get my edible flowers in the ground. And every single day, something intervened. Real life, doing what real life does. But here's what I did finish: I purged my home office. And I cleaned out the seed shop. If you've ever done a proper purge, you know it's not really about the stuff. It's about the clarity. It's a little bit like the Resurrection, actually. Lots of papers are making it to the compost pile. Lots of seeds are going to get planted. Something new coming from something old. I now have a proper seed inventory, and I wanted you to be the first to see it.
These 315 seed packets/jars cannot just stay in the boxes. We need to use them up!
April on a permaculture farm is not graceful. It's full and loud and a little behind schedule. But things are going in, and the soil is ready, and that's enough. We're also getting the farm ready for visitors in May... more on that soon. Grow abundantly, |
Dave & Nicky Schauder
Nicky and Dave Schauder are passionate about helping families grow their food, and medicine and find God in the garden. Learn how to build your own permaculture guild. Get our Guild Guide when you sign up!
Hello, Reader, We are beyond grateful that right now on our farm, we're getting the following from our garden so far: 1 lb of beans/day 5 lbs of tomatoes/day cucumbers blackberries raspberries peppers corn small Japanese tiger melons and we're spoiled for herbs on top of it. Pro-tip: Harvest tomatoes at first blush. They tend to produce more that way. I was out weighing today's tomato harvest from our research beds, where we've been comparing compost tea, organic fertilizer, and an untreated...
"If it has lived, it can live again." — Geoff Lawton, permaculturist Hello, Reader, How to Compost Correctly Last Sunday, right after liturgy, Dave and I taught a quick composting workshop for our church's volunteers ahead of our annual Middle Eastern Food Festival. I filmed it and put it on YouTube 👇, in case you'd like to sit in. Composting with Worms... and a Fly That Barely Lives a Week The company that composts our festival's waste, Future Acres Urban Farm, uses Black Soldier Fly larvae....
Hello, Reader, We have honey! The tomatoes are still green but growing really well right now. Yes, there are still things that are getting eaten by deer (like potatoes and every unprotected sunfower and zinnia on our property). But we've got beets coming in so fast we're having a beet salad every other day! This abundance is exactly the "problem" we set out to have when we started growing our own food eleven years ago. Back then, we had a tiny suburban backyard, six kids, a health crisis, and...