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Honoring the old ways through organic practices
John Whittemore shares how organic and permaculture farm practices used by Short Mountain Distillery honor our agricultural heritage. You can hear the guys from the CO-OP putting together our grain...
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Farm hour: harvesting leaf mulch
This is one Fall and Winter chore I think will really pay off no matter what we decide to plant in the orchard. Mulching. We’re going to need lots of good mulch, and I think we might have enough...
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Farm hour: garden and orchard chores
Vince got the chain saw and took down this dead tree in the upper field. This and a broken branch from the pregnant cedar became firewood. The smaller branches are in a pile to be composted. The...
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Farm hour: quantifying what’s possible
One of three tarp loads of oak, maple, hickory and walnut leaves we gathered up for the orchard compost. The orchard “mulchery” is set up. It’s 20 feet long, five feet wide and about 4 feet tall. If...
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Farm hour: heating water with a compost pile
There are a few videos on YouTube that will show you how to make your own outdoor hot water shower using the heat from a compost pile. The one above is the first one I saw using the Jean Pain method....
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Farm hour: making dirt
It’s 152 degrees in the new orchard compost pile. This is the pile with pine needles and oak leaves added for more acidity. It’s layered with wood chips, horse manure and several gallons of rain water...
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Farm hour: planning the organic garden
Here’s what the garden looks like on paper as it goes from an idea to the planning stages: how much to plant, when to plant, where to plant and what our yields should be. We’re in a multi-year process...
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Farm hour: becoming a USDA Certified Organic farm
soil samples from four sections of the farm It’s Winter. There isn’t enough light in the day when we get home from work to do much on the farm, so we’re taking a 15 hour online course from the Rodale...
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Farm hour: soil organics
a view of the organic orchard on the farm in Woodbury, Tennessee (Cannon County) Ken asked me a little suspiciously where I got the soil samples I had him test. He said he hasn’t seen soil that good...
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Farm hour: preventing herbicidal drift from utility right of ways
I didn’t know what to expect working with local utilities to prevent drift from chemical management of right of ways onto our organic farm. Each of our local utilities who need access to the front of...
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