In theory, compost can be made in 15 days and applied to the orchard if it reaches a temperature of 130F or more and is turned five times in this 15-day period.
Over the years, here at Frog Hollow Farm, we have used cover crops from time to time for various reasons with varying degrees of success.
Simply put, “cover crops” are plants grown on farms to co...
I’m not the type to feel excited by compost. That being said, I have been proved to be very wrong about my ideas about composting on a farm. I imagined a large pile of waste, stacked high, disorde...
This week’s article was written by CUESA's Volunteer of the Month Janet McGarry.
City dwellers may have enjoyed the sunshine during one of the driest winters on record, but the unseasonable w...
