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Yanmar YM 1300d Compact Tractor

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This Yanmar tractor is our main workhorse here at the yardstead.  This has been a great little tractor.  We have had a lot of interest in our Yanmar tractor articles, so I thought I would post this  [ ... ]


Powdery Mildew on Cucurbits

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Powdery mildew is a disease caused by fungus that affects a wide variety of plants.   Plants of the family known as Cucurbits, which includes cucumbers, squash, zucchini, gourds, melons and pumpkin [ ... ]


Zucchini and Powdery Mildew

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Powdery mildew is a fungal disease which affects many types of plants.  Cucurbits like zucchini, squash, pumpkins, melons and gourds are all succeptable to powdery mildew.  It usually appears on l [ ... ]


Raising Ducks at the Yardstead

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Raising ducks at the yardstead is a very new venture. We've only had our ducklings for one week now. But, I've spent the last six months reading about ducks. We have talked about having a few at the  [ ... ]


Raising Chickens - The Basics To Get Started

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Other than a small garden or a few fruit trees, I believe that raising chickens is one of the easiest ways to gain some self-reliance in your food supply. It can also be a very rewarding and enjoya [ ... ]


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Community Gardens Written by Administrator   
Thursday, 03 December 2009 06:33

   Portland Community Garden  Portland Oregon has one of the premier Community Garden programs in the country.  They offer garden plots to residents for a small fee, and donate fresh garden produce to local agencies to feed the hungry.  They encourage good healty gardening practices such as organic gardening, healthy soil building practices, composting, cover cropping, and sustainability.  The program also encourages positive social practices such as community involvement and intergenerational cooperation.  Portland currently has 32 community gardens throughout the city with more coming in the future.
     The Portland Community Gardens program has provided gardening opportunities for the physical and social benefit of the people and neighborhoods since 1975.  The 32 locations are scattered among many Portland neighborhoods.  Volunteer garden managers........

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Urban Homesteading Written by Kathleen   
Friday, 30 October 2009 09:04
EarthwormVermicomposting is composting using worms.  There are a variety of species of worms.  The most common used earthworm are Red Wigglers or Night Crawlers (think fish bait).  These can easily be looked up online for more information as well as to purchase online.

We have become interested in raising worms after watching a video produced by Olomana gardens in Haiwaii.  In this video worms were raised very easily in a stacked composting bin.  These bins can also be found online and seem relatively inexpensive.  At Olomana gardens the worms were being raised under permaculture principles.  Garden and food waste are fed to the worms. The worms produce castings (vermicompost) or are fed to chickens. Then the compost or chicken poo is used to fertilize the gardens.  So a cycle is created that is relatively self-sustaining.  Each system depends on the other to produce well.

Of course, I went immediately to the internet and to youtube to find information on raising worms.  There are a variety of ways to do this.  Stack bins seem to be.......

Last Updated on Monday, 02 November 2009 08:05
 
 
 
Community Gardens Written by Jason   
Thursday, 22 October 2009 06:53

Community GardenThere has been a lot of coverage in the media lately about community gardens and planting vegetables and fruits on public land.  The Yardstead is in full support of these ideas and we plan to get invloved when we are able.  We will be covering the progress of this movement in detail.  I heard a radio interview yesterday with Darrin Nordahl, the author of a new book Public Produce:  The new Urban Agriculture  The book is full of details about public spaces already being used for community gardens such as this community gardens program in Portland, OR.  The book also includes many ideas for using more....

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Growing Ginger (True Ginger)

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Selecting Hand Tools

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We use our hand tools everyday here at the Yardstead.  Because we are a small scale urban homestead, we don't really need to use power tools that often.  Sure we use a small tractor to till the gard [ ... ]


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