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Category: Compost - Golden Valley Farm
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One of basic techniques of organic growing is the making of compost. Compost is great stuff. It is comprised of decayed and decaying organic matter (plant residues), soil, humus and vast amounts of microscopic bacterial, fungal and arthropodal life. Soil biota, like all life on this planet, need certain conditions to thrive. A well built compost heap, with lots of vegetable matter from the garden, will provide the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, nutrients, ph (acidity level) and moisture necessary to creat...
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Full Speed Ahead - Golden Valley Farm
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Summer has definitely arrived on the farm. Zucchinis and tomatoes (above) are reaching for the sky and popping out bountiful flowers, and the pumpkins (planted in the compost windrows, below) are crawling about like triffids. Further into the garden the basil is looking perky. And the successions of carrots are popping up nicely. The first leeks of the season are enjoying the company of my inaugural attempt at celery (on left, below),. I also need to make time to enjoy the fruits of the season.
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Category: Coverage - Golden Valley Farm
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Epic Kit 1: Six-Row Seeder. She’s a tricksy tool, the six-row seeder. Attention must be paid. But the rewards are significant, and a glow of pleasure accompanies every bed of tiny, perfectly spaced plants poking their heads from the rich earth. So the seeder tamps the soil, delivers six rows of seed at a given depth/row spacing/in-row spacing, and closes the furrows afterwards, all in one pass. In my beds, which are 800mm wide, the 400mm seeder can sow two passes, meaning 12 rows per bed, increasing ...
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Pulling Garlic - Golden Valley Farm
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Will the harvest prove worth the eight months of effort? And on the other hand, can I sell them all.did I plant too much? This year the anxiety was compounded because I planted the garlic much later than usual. In previous years the crop was planted in March or April, but this year, due to one thing and another, I didn't sow the cloves until late May, and so I was expecting a late harvest of smaller bulbs this year. Do you ship to Launceston? Your farm looks gorgeous. We've just arrived in Cygnet, doing ...
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Blog Posts - Golden Valley Farm
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Living on the Land. This is an edited version of a speech to the Huon Producers Network Annual General Meeting, 17.9.2014. Https:/ www.facebook.com/huonvalleyproducers. Hi everyone and thanks for coming along to the Annual General Meeting of the Huon Producers Network, and thank you also for giving me this opportunity to speak. How viable are our expectations of living on the land? Of bounteous harvests and being beholden to no man or woman? Of a sustainable life close to nature? What a lot of us here ar...
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Field of Opportunity - Golden Valley Farm
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The fine fellow in the photo is Michael , who I met through my market stall and later through his interest in buying one of my Jerseys. He didn't buy the cow, but somehow ended up planting spuds with me today, despite being way over-qualified for grubbing in the dirt. Thanks Michael! Oh, and Jezebel the Jersey cow was bought by a lovely family new to Nicholls Rivulet, so I'm happy to have lost a cow and gained a friend or two. Is this a new area? I don't recognise the field. That's a lot of spuds! Start ...
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Spring Grass - Golden Valley Farm
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A couple of years ago, I was spending around 4 hours a week mowing through spring. The lengthening days and moist soil of spring sends the grass rocketing for the sky, and if you don't mow, it rapidly becomes too long to push the mower over. One spring of push-mowing was enough for me, and by last spring I had rearranged fences so that I could slash the majority of the grass with the tractor. Slashing is easier and. Create a free website. Create your own free website. Start your own free website.
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Growing Vegetables for Fun and Profit - Golden Valley Farm
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Growing Vegetables for Fun and Profit. With this in mind, I have developed a two day intensive workshop, Growing Vegetables for Fun and Profit, which provides the tools and information you need to move from a small-scale veggie patch to an income-producing garden, or to set up your own market garden from scratch, or anything in between! Snacks and lunches will be provided, using produce from the farm, so you will walk away replete with good food and good information! Cheers for now,. Create a free website.
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