"Chaos" farming during the pandemic

Started by Ferdzy, 2020-05-13, 07:17:33 AM

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Ferdzy

Excellent article here on some things that some American prairie farmers are doing at the moment:

https://civileats.com/2020/05/12/most-farmers-in-the-great-plains-dont-grow-fruits-and-vegetables-the-pandemic-is-changing-that/

Very interesting approach for combining a certain efficiency of scale with wide variety of resulting vegetables.


Diane Whitehead

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Yes, very interesting. 

Carol Deppe wrote about combining vegetables in The Tao of Vegetable Gardening, and I plan to try some of her ideas on my half acre.  However, a 10,000 acre farm is completely beyond my imagination.

Gathering a mix of vegetables as you navigate a corn maze sounds like fun.
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
cool mediterranean climate  warm dry summers, mild wet winters,  70 cm rain,   sandy soil

William Schlegel

Would be cool to try this with grex seed. I have an unused acre but it's in tough grass.
Western Montana garden, glacial lake Missoula sediment lacustrian parent material and shallow 7" silty clay loam mollisoil topsoil sometimes with added sand in places. Zone 6A with 100 to 130 frost free days

Nicolas