Boulder Belt Farm
Blog URL http://boulderbelt.blogspot.com
Tags locavore, farm, heirloom, organic, tomato, food, CSA, farmstand, sustainable
A blog about a small sustainable farm in SW Ohio
Latest Blog Posts
- Eugene Finds Truffles on Nov 17, 2009 in truffles Ohio
Who woulda thought we would find truffles near a shag bark hickory tree in a potato bed. But we did.We are not 100% they are truffles but from looking through the mushroom book we have and checking several places on line plus looking at a lot of ima...
- Boulder Belt and the Choice Food Pantry on Nov 9, 2009 in refrigeration local foods Food Pantry Oxford Ohio
Many years ago when I was still on the Oxford farmers Market Uptown governing board I made the suggestion that we should figure out a way to get the left over food that farmers have at the end of every market to people who need food, i.e. a food pant...
- The Wisdom Of Growing Berries Workshop on Nov 6, 2009 in mentoring IFO workshop OEFFA
On Wednesday we went to Columbus Ohio to the 4-H building (or the 4-H mother ship) to the Wisdom of Growing Berries workshop. If you remember we had a farm tour back in August. That was stage one of the Wisdom of growing Berries and this meeting in C...
- Planting the 2009 Garlic Crop on Oct 23, 2009 in Pictures planting garlic market garden
Planting garlic on a beautiful Indian Summer eveningWe started planting garlic this past Tuesday. We are planning on doing 8 50' x 4' beds this year and growing 5 different types, Music, Purple Glazer, Shvilisi (Chesnok Red), Persian Star and German...
- Frost Warning on Oct 13, 2009 in peppers Pictures Hoop House Farm life harvest ginger Ohio season extension
Prefrost peppers and eggplantGot back from the farmers market Saturday afternoon with every intention of relaxing for the rest of the day (farmers markets really take it out of you) but than realized that the weather prophets had issued a frost warni...
- Peanut Harvest on Oct 6, 2009 in peanuts harvest
Eugene decided this was the year to plant and grow peanuts so he bought 2 pounds of seed (raw) peanuts and planted 1.5 rows of them in the bottom area back in late May. Yesterday we dug them up along with a lot of big grubs (which will become fish ba...
- Farm Share Blog on Sep 30, 2009 in Blogs local foods local harvest Link CSA
I just posted 3 (three) new entries to the Farm Share Blog I have over at Local Harvest. These newsletters (I have the whole season to date) should give you a good idea of what goes on with our Farm Share Initiative-what kind and how much food, farm...
