Yesterday, after moving about two-thirds of a mountain of mule manure to a section of the old herb garden which we have set aside as fallow, a third of the manure mountain was still left on the field, so I spread it out and spent the rest of the afternoon working it into the ground. It [...]
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nourishment from darkness . . .
Posted in frontier farming, planting by the signs on May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
first plantings
Posted in frontier farming, planting by the signs on May 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today, with the moon a waxing crescent in the first quarter, in the house of Cancer, conditions were optimal for the planting of corn and gourds. Optimal astrologically, perhaps, but here on the good earth, after a long night and morning of steady rain, the planting field was a muddy mess. Once I had finished talking about farming on [...]
planting by the signs & phases of the moon
Posted in frontier farming, planting by the signs on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As nearly as I can figure (and I am a rank amateur at this) after one considers each day in respect to its planetary sign, the waxing or waning, and quarter of the moon, eliminating all Sundays and transitional days, that one is left, in the whole of the month of May, with but two days [...]
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