Growing the perfect bite…
- At February 28, 2012
- By Molly Chester
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We’re planting trees over here at Apricot Lane Farms! For reals… 2,010 little deciduous (meaning – goes dormant in the winter) arrived last week. The project is a 20-acre block that we nicknamed “The Fruit Basket”, before we learned that there is some sort of sexual connotation to that term. Doh… but, too late. It had stuck. The citrus trees aren’t arriving until end of March, but here’s the list of our future ingredients.
Building fertility.
- At February 21, 2012
- By Molly Chester
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Apricot Lane Farms officially has two new compost piles, almost three – one day we’ll have as many as 6. Aren’t we big. The picture above shows one of these piles in front of the trees it will one day nourish – my heart’s a flutter. No puny piles here, but 100 – 200 foot rows designed to create compost for our many thousands of hungry fruit trees. Merging the detailed approach Biodynamic farming and 130-acres of production is not easy, but holy cow, does it feel good. From a cook’s perspective, every effort is for one singular goal – great food.