Water Management: Avoid Frozen Hoses and Burst Pipes
Within a few weeks, nighttime temperatures will be cold enough to freeze water. Any water that’s still in your garden hoses, handles and wands, and the outside faucet itself are at risk of damage,…
Grow your own Microgreens
Microgreens are densely seeded edible plants that are harvested and consumed before they are mature. Microgreens are a nutritional powerhouse, holding up to 40 times more vitamins and nutrition th…
Life with Chickens: Expanding BUFCO’s Urban Farm
To cross or not to cross?
Question: Why did the chicken cross the road?
Answer: There is no right answer.
Now that we’ve gott…
Grow Your Own Garlic
Attention garlic lovers! Why buy grocery-store garlic grown half way around the world when you can grow your own right at home? It’s an easy-to-grow, low maintenance crop that produces two harvests…
What to do with all that Garlic?
So you’ve harvested all your garlic, and it’s curing in a nice, cool, dry place. Maybe you’re eating some that’s fresh from the ground (I hope so!) And once again, you’re looking at your too-large …
After the compost tea party…
Every year we like to experiment with something new at the BUFCO Lab. This winter Arlene, BUFCO’s lead gardener Julia, and I took the Organic Master Gardener course from Gaia College whic…