Tag: Farm
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[upbeat acoustic guitar] – Erin Warner: My horticulture journey professionally started much later in my life. I didn’t know where that was going to lead me, but I knew that it would make sense when I got here. We do the hydroponic strawberry you-pick operation, and that is about 18,000 plants. Every year, all the…
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A journey from Hawaii to Wisconsin landed horticulturalist Erin Warner a lead role at Warm Belly Farm in Fort Atkinson. Warner oversees the daily operations of a hydroponic strawberry farm. The “you pick” operation has 18,000 plants. Growing hydroponically means the strawberry plants are growing not…
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What is homesteading? It’s really a mindset—a desire to be self-sufficient. Learn more about growing in a large vegetable garden or on a small farm. Plus, here are three sample garden layouts to get you started. What is Homesteading? The word “homesteading” comes from The Homesteading Act of 1862, which encouraged settlement of the Great West by giving away…
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From The Ground Up is a CBC series in collaboration with Food Producers Forum, looking at how small-scale growers are digging and dreaming up agricultural innovations in Newfoundland and Labrador. Kingfisher Farm is a surprisingly prolific scrap of Gambo ground. There are a few usual suspects growing in its raised beds — garlic, lettuce, tomatoes — but most are more unusual,…
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You could call Casey and Jason Lawrence Pied Pipers of gardening. Their biggest followers are daughters Lana and Sayla. But they attract many more online via The Lawrence Garden Farm website, YouTube and Instagram, spreading the joy and peace they find cultivating a plant-based lifestyle in southeast Wisconsin. Casey and Jason chose raised beds mostly…