100 More Fruit Trees and Update
We just planted out 100 more fruit trees – which we grafted back in spring. We upgraded the string trimmer to a chain, mowed down a path, planted, fertilized, and mulched heavily:Regarding the funding baskets deployed 2 weeks ago in our progress...
June Agriculture Walkthrough at Factor e Farm
Here is a video produced by Sean, on the agriculture overview of Factor e Farm: The bottom line is that resilience in food is not difficult to come by, but it presently requires more energy than we have with 2 full time people – engaged fully in...
Budding Out
The fruit propagation workshop went well. Two people showed up. 2 weeks later, these cherry trees are already budding out: We got a donation of 50 more EMLA 111 apple rootstocks, which can be obtained from Willamette Nurseries for under 70 cents each....
Plant Propagation Workshop 2010
We will be holding our annual Plant Propagation Workshop on March 20. See the documentation from last year’s workshop – blog post and announcement. This year, our workshop will feature more raspberry propagation, plus grafting of apple, pear,...
Zero Turn MicroTrac
MicroTrac achieved zero turn motion. If one walks around rapidly, one can turn the walk-behind tractor around in place. MicroTrac is turning out to be a beautiful freak: Play this freak show. To do this, we added two small, freely-turning wheels to MicroTrac....
May 1 Walkthrough
Here is the natural history of Factor e Farm just at the beginning of plantlife leafing out – May 1 prior to my Austria trip. We go through the wild areas, garden, orchard, and greenhouse. This is a major contrast to what the place looks like right...
Fruit Tree Grafting and Raspberry Root Cuttings Details
The plant propagation workshop of last weekend did not offer a chance for good documentation of the process details, so here’s another take. We propagated 200 raspberries and about 50 peaches and apricots. We’ll need to feed a village.
