Fall Gardening
One thing I’ve always wanted to do, but never quite gotten around to, is put in a fall vegetable garden. The problem I’ve always run into...
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Sep 1, 2012
Fruit Harvest
Every gardener knows the joy of harvesting the fruits of your labor, and today was a great harvest day at 5R Farm. It’s a good thing too,...
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Jun 23, 2012
Slug Wars
As a long-time gardener and Oregon resident, the battle to prevent slugs from devouring the garden has become an annual ritual. The first...
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May 6, 2012
First 5R Farm Veggie Garden
It’s been a long time coming, and finally the veggie garden planting is complete. It started with chainsawing and stump grinding back in...
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Apr 7, 2012
Spring Veggie Planting
After several months of planning, accompanied by lots of backbreaking labor (although luckily Sean has done most of it!), today was the...
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Mar 5, 2012
Berry Planting
The planting continued last weekend at 5R Farm. I planted 10 raspberry canes that I dug up and potted from my garden in Portland last...
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Feb 20, 2012
I Heart Trees
This weekend it was all about the wood at 5R Farm. We built cedar raised beds for the garden, planted trees, and gathered logs for...
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Jan 30, 2012
Chainsawing and Stump Grinding
It certainly was an exciting weekend at the farm! This is the site of our future vegetable garden, and it had 5 stumps that we needed to...
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Jan 23, 2012
Bare Root Planting Season
Well, okay maybe not quite, but with February right around the corner it is almost time for planting bare root trees and shrubs. What is...
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Dec 16, 2011
The Future Vegetable Garden
There are two big projects on the to do list for the spring of 2012. We’ll be putting in the vegetable garden and also building a large...
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