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California Climate & Agriculture Network (CalCAN) recently completed a case study on our farm. "You would be hard pressed to find a better model of biodiversity and climate resilience than Live Earth Farm," was their conclusion. Click here for a PDF of the full profile
April and May are the months when many crops are seeded or transplanted in preparation for the upcoming main season. There are also many crops on the verge of being ready for harvest. Take a walk with us through the fields to see what's coming up. Italian Parsely seedlings break up the brown soil [...]
The farm's winter fields are a patchwork of cover crops and winter veggies. Take a walk through them with us and see all the changes. Click on the highlighted text to reach related previous posts. It seems strange to have to irrigate in January yet there were only a couple of brief rain storms [...]
Take a walk with us around the farm to see the changes from the recent three days of rain. The apple trees still have some leaves, though they are yellowing as the days grow shorter. The green band in the middle of the row is a sprouting cover crop. Farmer Juan, on [...]
While some crops, like raspberry and blackberry canes, remain in the same place for a couple of years, as the season progresses most crops are rotated through the fields. Take a walk with us to see the changes. In January 2013 this portion of field was flooded, and now there are rows of raspberries [...]
The past week has been a frosty one indeed. Take a walk through the fields with us to see how they look. The rows in the foreground are covered in "remay" tunnels that protect crops, in this case lettuce seedlings, from frost. The rows to the right in the middle field are planted with [...]
Things are always changing in the fields. From month to month, week to week, and day to day. Here's a photo essay to keep you up to date. Pictured here is a field of summer squash from a previous post on July 9th. It's changed dramatically in just a few weeks. This [...]
The pictures below express more about the fun we had last Saturday at our first Dry-farmed Tomato U-Harvest than words ever will - thank you all so much for joining us on the farm!! :-) Due to the high demand and interest by members and extended community, we will continue hosting Saturday Tomato U-Harvests for [...]
Summer is upon us, and crops like our dry-farmed tomatoes are on the verge of being ready for harvest. Check out all that is going on in the fields. This dry-farmed tomato field is looking very different from when it had a cover crop in March (below). The cover crop was tall [...]
