| SIFT Update: Looking Back on Lessons Learned
It seems like only yesterday that we were basking in the all-too-short warmth of a Butte summer. Next thing you know, late September brings an early, heavy snowstorm. Then it turned beautiful again. Until yesterday, that is, when winter weather returned. But we’re still undaunted, learning to live with Butte’s challenging climate. >>more Season Extension: Practical Ways Extend Production and Income
Season extension simply refers to anything that allows a crop to be cultivated beyond its normal outdoor growing season. Here in Butte, Montana, our growing season tends to be fairly short; therefore any techniques that can prolong our ability to grow and harvest fresh food are highly valued.>>more Sheet Mulching: Cooking Up Food for the Soil
Sheet mulching, also called lasagna mulching, is a pretty simple concept of layering your mulching “ingredients” to add nutrients to your soil, improve soil structure, and suppress weeds. It can be done to build entirely new beds, or just to improve your existing soil.>>more Keep It Light: Work With Nature, Not Against It
It’s that time of year again. It seems to happen overnight. One day your market garden is neat and pretty, with all the rows nicely cultivated and mulched, and the next day you can’t even see rows, let alone any of the vegetables. It appears that somebody has come in the night and planted a huge crop of weeds in your garden. >>more |
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