Flock & Furrow is a family market garden, which is a generous way of
describing a few thousand square feet, nine ducks and a spreadsheet that
got ambitious over the winter. None of us trained for this. We read a lot,
drew up a plan, and are now finding out which parts of it survive contact
with actual soil.
We are not going to tell you we know what we are doing, because we do not.
What we can tell you is what went in, when, and what happened to it
afterwards. That is more or less the whole idea: write it down, be less
wrong next year, and keep going for as long as it stays interesting.
Which we suspect is a long time. Who knows what this is yet. Who knows
what it turns into.
The 2027 pilot is full.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.
Planted, tended, picked and occasionally lost by the same few people.
Right now
What it is doing outside
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Near the farm
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Rules we set ourselves
Three things we have decided to be strict about
01
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, and a note explaining ourselves.
02
Nobody gets the good box
Every share is the same. If there is not enough of something to go round it waits for a week when there is. This is mostly to stop us arguing.
03
We write down what went wrong
Germination rates, failures, substitutions and the reasons. Partly for you, mostly so that next year we at least make new mistakes.
What we grow
Vegetables, and several things we are still learning
Six things sharing one piece of ground. The market garden and summer crops fill the box. The ducks, bees, mushrooms and orchard are there because we wanted to find out whether we could, and so far nobody has stopped us.
