How we grow

Permanent beds, compost on top, soil never bare

Every practice, in the open. Ask about any of it.

The practices

  • No-till: beds are never ploughed or rotovated
  • Compost spread on top of every bed each season
  • Close planting in succession, so beds are never empty
  • Cover crops and mulch over winter
  • No synthetic fertilizers or pesticides
  • Drip irrigation, watering the root not the leaf
  • Row cover for pests and frost instead of sprays

ONE BED, ONE YEAR

What a single bed does in twelve months

February

Compost

An inch of compost raked over the winter cover.

March

Salad

Transplants go in under row cover. Cut from April.

June

Beans

The salad comes out; beans go straight in on a trellis.

September

Garlic

Beans cleared, garlic cloves planted for next summer.

November

Covered

Mulched over the garlic and left until spring.

The beds

Learn to grow this way

Half-day workshops run through the season.

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