Farmer Al's favorite Flavor King pluot is ripe and ready to ship. As with most other fruits, we have an early harvest of this 'fruit royalty' too.
Yes, that's what we like to call the Flavo...
This week at the farm, we've started picking our Suncrest peaches.
The Suncrest is an heirloom varietal and it's packed with traditional peach flavor. It's one of the best peaches we grow at Fro...
Two goals this week: add more food residues (to increase microbial diversity) to the two new vermicomposting beds described in last week’s blog and apply the vermicompost that is finished to the ...
Discussion of vermicompost teas used as soil drenches and foliar sprays is being put off to a future blog.
Last week we referred to Farmer Al’s slide comparing thermophilic composting and verm...
“A nectarine… is half plum, half peach… a fine fruit… even rotten; I’d eat a rotten nectarine over a fine plum any day”
Mel Brooks as the 2000 year old man
Contrary to popular belief, the nectari...
So far this week we have spent 2 days harvesting compost from worms (vermicompost) and we will probably spend another 2 days. The harvesting includes general maintenance.
Let’s refer to Farmer Al...
Last week we applied a bacterial vermicompost tea as a foliar spray on pear and apple trees infected with the Fire Blight bacterium. In the past few weeks we have drenched the soil around our tomat...
More details on the use of compost/vermicompost teas will be described in next week’s blog. This week a vermicompost tea (containing bacteria, fungi, protozoa but dominated by bacteria) was brew...
