We started picking our olives October 16th, 2014 - an all-time record early harvest for us. The Leccinos, first of our four varieties to ripen were black. Leccinos comprise 25% of our trees and thi...
A citation from a recent review article entitled “Vermiculture technology: reviving the dreams of Sir Charles Darwin”: compared to human beings, earthworms have over 600 million years of experience...
• Humic acids produced in compost and vermicompost are a very important and interesting topic but this discussion will again be postponed till next week.
• Construction of windrows in the second co...
We will continue the discussion about humic acids that are produced in vermicompost and thermophilic compost next week. The vermicompost area is doubling in size this winter. Almost all the deb...
Chef Becky first started working on her own fruit cake recipe nearly 11 years ago. Her motivation? An abundance of Frog Hollow Farm's sweet, sun-dried fruit and the nagging unpleasant memories of ...
About 1000 trees were uprooted last month and will be replaced in the spring with new trees. This week each pre-planting hole was filled with about 50 lbs of thermophilic compost and 15 lbs of ver...
• Last week, compost and vermicompost were added to the new vegetable beds. As soon as possible, soil samples will be taken from these beds and a biological assessment (biomass, biological diversit...
Like a deck of cards, we have dealt the last windrow started in early July into the orchard. In the last two weeks, compost which was started on July 2nd has resulted in about 300 tons of materia...
