Flock & Furrow

What we grow

Six things, one piece of ground

The market garden and summer crops fill the box. The ducks, bees, mushrooms and orchard are the parts we are least qualified for, which is roughly why they are here.

Rows of red and green leaf lettuce in dark soil, leeks in the bed beyond.

Market garden

Salanova and Dragoon lettuce on a six-run conveyor, spinach, arugula, Tokyo Bekana, Hakurei turnips, Mokum carrots, Red Ace beets, chard, radishes and scallions.

Beets, turnips, kale and chard laid out on a market table.

Summer crops

San Marzano and Sun Gold tomatoes, Shishito and Lunchbox peppers, Excelsior cucumbers, Dunja and Magda squash, Solstice sweet corn, watermelon and seven pumpkin and gourd cultivars.

Ducks on a pond in the rain, reeds along the far bank.

Ducks

A small flock on pasture, working slug patrol between the beds. Eggs go into shares only when there are enough for every family to get the same number.

Bees working comb in an open hive.

Bees

Hives going in this season. We are not planning on honey in year one. The first winter is the real test.

A stack of inoculated alder bolts in the shade, shiitake fruiting from the bark.

Mushrooms

Shiitake on alder bolts cut from our own trees, inoculated in early spring and fruiting from the stack.

Butterhead lettuce and dill in a raised bed under greenhouse plastic.

Orchard & perennials

Strawberries in raised beds, garlic overwintered from autumn, and young fruit trees going in for the seasons after this one.

Meet the flock

Every bird has a name, a temperament and a card of their own.

  • Ducks on a pond in the rain, reeds along the far bank.

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Whatever works goes into five equal boxes

Eighteen weeks, one box each week, planned before the first seed goes in and revised roughly constantly after that.

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