Category Archives: Planning
Wednesday 17th August – Stephen at Allsun Farm
Stephen has only been at Allsun Farm for 8 days – phew! We have covered a huge amount of ground with him and we too have planted broad beans. So what have we covered so far? Laying hens – our … Continue reading
Wednesday 10th August 2011 – we have a bed plan :-))
The planting schedule was easy. Many years ago we created a system of planting cards based on years of diary keeping at Allsun Farm. It is conservative but hey that means it works and will certainly work at Milkwood. These … Continue reading
Sunday 7th August 2011 – Allsun Farm update
Planning The last few days have been very hectic, here at Allsun we have been cramming in planting seedlings, getting up to speed with weeding and hoeing. We have also talked non stop about what to grow, when to grow … Continue reading
Sunday 17th July – Getting organised at Allsun Farm
Progress We had established that we already had some seedlings. Helen had been out at Allsun Farm potting up capsicum and eggplant seedlings so they were organised as well. Kirsten agreed to organise a couple of pigs to plough up … Continue reading
Growing Annual Vegetables CD Rom: review
So we’re sitting at the kitchen table, planning our market garden with Joyce and Mike from Allsun Farm, and Joyce suddenly looks at me sharply: “you’ve seen our vegetable growing CD ROM, haven’t you?” Erm, no? With forewords by Eliot … Continue reading
Community-scale food thinking – comments by Joyce
Here at Allsun Farm we are also surrounded by seed catalogues, vegetable seed lists, bed plans, calendars and our heads are spinning too. There is something so exciting about planning for the next season of vegetable growing. The garlic is … Continue reading
Shifting to community-scale food thinking
This week I received all our yearly seed catalogs, and, as usual, started planning feverishly. How many is too many weird and wonderful heirloom watermelon varieties? And then I paused. Wait a minute, we’re aiming for community scale in our … Continue reading
Planning our organic market garden
I never thought we would get excited about, let along plan to do, the whole market garden thing. But while I’m all for no-dig polycultures like our domestic-scale kitchen garden, I’m also a pragmatist. These days, we need more vegetables … Continue reading
