A family farm in the Pacific Northwest
Flock & Furrow
We grow vegetables for a handful of families on a few thousand square feet in the Pacific Northwest. Whatever we try goes into the farm log, including the parts that go wrong.
Near the farm
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The farm log
Written up as it happens. The failures stay in.
Every entryMonday 8 March
Inoculating the alder
Bolts cut from our own alder in February, drilled, plugged with shiitake spawn and waxed. They go in the shade stack now. We find out whether any of it worked in about eight months.
The apiary goes in
Stands levelled, hives sited for morning sun and shelter from the west wind. No honey expected this year. Getting them through one winter would be a result.
A garden that got ambitious
Flock & Furrow is a family market garden with nine ducks on slug patrol. None of us trained for this. We spent a winter reading and planning, and now we are finding out how much of the plan survives real soil.
We will not pretend to know what we are doing. What we can do is write down what we planted and what became of it, so that next year we are a little less wrong.
Two house rules
- Ripe beats punctual
- Nothing gets picked early to make a delivery date look tidy. If the melons are not ready, you get more of whatever is, with a note explaining ourselves.
- Every box is the same
- If there is not enough of something for every share, it waits for a week when there is. Mostly this stops us arguing.
Grown and written up by the same few people.
In the ground
The market garden and the summer crops fill the boxes. The ducks, bees, mushrooms and orchard are the parts we are least qualified for.
What we grow
Shares open again next winter, probably
Five families were brave enough to sign up for year one while we find out what this ground can actually do. Join the waitlist and you will hear first when we open it up again, assuming it goes well.