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Corvus Landing is a diversified market and CSA farm in Neskowin at the Oregon coast. Fresh vegetables, seasonal flowers, and starts for your garden.

New starts at trillium today! Lettuce, dill, Cilan

New starts at trillium today! Lettuce, dill, Cilantro, Chard, and bok choy are out now, along with kale, peas, spinach, and sweet peas. Looks like a lovely weekend to be in the garden!
@trilliumnaturalfoods

#growyourown #oregoncoast

Fruit care part 2: mulching and fertility. After p

Fruit care part 2: mulching and fertility. After pruning and weeding, we make sure our trees and berries get the nutrients they need to get through another season and produce abundant, delicious fruit. Some of that we add in the form of powdered amendments, our go to is the complete organic blend from @concentrates_nw. This has a nice, slow release NPK balance along with plenty of holistic micro nutrients and a mycorrhizal inoculant to introduce beneficial fungi to the soil. We sprinkle a bit around each plant, then add an inch or two of compost to increase the biological activity and feed the soil. We top it all off with a thick layer of woodsy mulch, either well rotted sawdust (leave it out in the rain for a year or two) or wood chips.

All this creates a rich fungal habitat for all those beneficial microbes. Nutrients become available to plants through the action of the biology in the soil. Raw amendments (feather meal, lime, seed meals, etc) are digested by the myriad of creatures living in the soil. These nutrients are made available to the plants when they are made soluble through excretia or by the decomposing bodies of the decomposers themselves. Feeder roots take up these solutions directly or through the Mycorrhizal fungi connected to their roots.

Chemical fertilizers side step this biological process by introducing individual, soluble nutrients directly to the soil. While this creates fast, visible results, it can also lead to waste as excess nutrients are washed away and into groundwater resources. It oversimplifies the complex chemistry and biology of plants and soil, leaving plants without a full set of resources and nutrients to draw upon to build up their natural defenses. I believe this is the largest difference between organic and chemical agriculture.

Having primarily grown annual vegetables in my career, i have loved the opportunity to build a permanent soil habitat in my orchard and berry fields. I've taken the lessons I've learned and applied them to my soil management in my vegetable and flower fields. I still till and enjoy the benefits, but i have introduced techniques to enhance the microbiome in all the farm's soil.

March is a great month for fruit care! We're throu

March is a great month for fruit care! We're through the heaviest of the rain, and plants are just beginning to break dormancy. Our earliest varieties jump the gun a bit and try to take advantage of the first warm windows, like our Beauty Japanese plum tree. These early bloomers may be unreliable fruit producers: this week we got overnight temps down to 25, hail, heavy winds, and downpours along with some lovely sunny afternoons. But they are a boon for pollinators, like this bumblebee queen just emerging from her winter hibernation. There aren't a lot of flowers out this time of year, so this tree was buzzing with several species of beneficial flies along with a few honeybees and bumbles.

I actually pruned this tree a few weeks ago before it started flowering, it's better late than never but it's best to prune while plants are still dormant. They have better protection from cold weather while dormant, you are less likely to knock off flowers or swollen buds, and the tree doesn't waste energy pouring sap and nutrients into branches you are going to cut off anyway.

I am working toward compact, vase shaped trees in my pruning. I have learned so much about pruning from the book "Grow a Little Fruit Tree" by Ann Ralph. The basic idea is to focus on summer pruning to keep the tree compact. In winter, most of the tree's energy is in the trunk and roots. Pruning invigorates the tree, so i focus on structural, thinning cuts to create space, light, and air circulation. After the summer solstice, most of the tree's energy is in the leaves and branches, so this is the time to cut back long leaders and reduce height and vigor.

Every season offers new pruning opportunities, and I've loved learning how to shape and influence my trees. Here's hoping for our first harvest from the new orchard this summer!

#holisticorchard #localfruit #csa #pollinators #summeriscoming #soareapples #learning #growalittlefruittree

It's been a week...seems like everything has been

It's been a week...seems like everything has been breaking around here recently. I've missed this view as our tractor has been in the shop for about a month. We finally got it back, just in time for me to break a whole bunch of fittings putting the pump back together. sometimes we have bad luck and sometimes we make avoidable mistakes. On weeks like this i try to just slow down and accept that my timeline is out the window but it will all get done in the end. Sometimes i remember, sometimes i yell and throw pipes. #goals

On the bright (literally) side, the sun came out and the swallows came home! We have several families who nest at the farm each year and they are one of the great joys of of my life. They were so excited to be back at their box, chittering and swooping around the entrance as the sun shone on the early plum blossoms. The pollinators were hard at work on the plum tree and the overwintered salad, and it was so lovely to feel a taste of spring.

This time of year is mostly devoted to greenhouse work, infrastructure projects, planning, and fruit care. I'll be posting more about how we care for our berries and trees next week!

#csa #localfood #localflowers #localfruit #holisticorchard

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Corvus Landing is a diversified market and CSA farm in Neskowin at the Oregon coast. Fresh vegetables, seasonal flowers, and starts for your garden.

New starts at trillium today! Lettuce, dill, Cilan

New starts at trillium today! Lettuce, dill, Cilantro, Chard, and bok choy are out now, along with kale, peas, spinach, and sweet peas. Looks like a lovely weekend to be in the garden!
@trilliumnaturalfoods

#growyourown #oregoncoast

Fruit care part 2: mulching and fertility. After p

Fruit care part 2: mulching and fertility. After pruning and weeding, we make sure our trees and berries get the nutrients they need to get through another season and produce abundant, delicious fruit. Some of that we add in the form of powdered amendments, our go to is the complete organic blend from @concentrates_nw. This has a nice, slow release NPK balance along with plenty of holistic micro nutrients and a mycorrhizal inoculant to introduce beneficial fungi to the soil. We sprinkle a bit around each plant, then add an inch or two of compost to increase the biological activity and feed the soil. We top it all off with a thick layer of woodsy mulch, either well rotted sawdust (leave it out in the rain for a year or two) or wood chips.

All this creates a rich fungal habitat for all those beneficial microbes. Nutrients become available to plants through the action of the biology in the soil. Raw amendments (feather meal, lime, seed meals, etc) are digested by the myriad of creatures living in the soil. These nutrients are made available to the plants when they are made soluble through excretia or by the decomposing bodies of the decomposers themselves. Feeder roots take up these solutions directly or through the Mycorrhizal fungi connected to their roots.

Chemical fertilizers side step this biological process by introducing individual, soluble nutrients directly to the soil. While this creates fast, visible results, it can also lead to waste as excess nutrients are washed away and into groundwater resources. It oversimplifies the complex chemistry and biology of plants and soil, leaving plants without a full set of resources and nutrients to draw upon to build up their natural defenses. I believe this is the largest difference between organic and chemical agriculture.

Having primarily grown annual vegetables in my career, i have loved the opportunity to build a permanent soil habitat in my orchard and berry fields. I've taken the lessons I've learned and applied them to my soil management in my vegetable and flower fields. I still till and enjoy the benefits, but i have introduced techniques to enhance the microbiome in all the farm's soil.

March is a great month for fruit care! We're throu

March is a great month for fruit care! We're through the heaviest of the rain, and plants are just beginning to break dormancy. Our earliest varieties jump the gun a bit and try to take advantage of the first warm windows, like our Beauty Japanese plum tree. These early bloomers may be unreliable fruit producers: this week we got overnight temps down to 25, hail, heavy winds, and downpours along with some lovely sunny afternoons. But they are a boon for pollinators, like this bumblebee queen just emerging from her winter hibernation. There aren't a lot of flowers out this time of year, so this tree was buzzing with several species of beneficial flies along with a few honeybees and bumbles.

I actually pruned this tree a few weeks ago before it started flowering, it's better late than never but it's best to prune while plants are still dormant. They have better protection from cold weather while dormant, you are less likely to knock off flowers or swollen buds, and the tree doesn't waste energy pouring sap and nutrients into branches you are going to cut off anyway.

I am working toward compact, vase shaped trees in my pruning. I have learned so much about pruning from the book "Grow a Little Fruit Tree" by Ann Ralph. The basic idea is to focus on summer pruning to keep the tree compact. In winter, most of the tree's energy is in the trunk and roots. Pruning invigorates the tree, so i focus on structural, thinning cuts to create space, light, and air circulation. After the summer solstice, most of the tree's energy is in the leaves and branches, so this is the time to cut back long leaders and reduce height and vigor.

Every season offers new pruning opportunities, and I've loved learning how to shape and influence my trees. Here's hoping for our first harvest from the new orchard this summer!

#holisticorchard #localfruit #csa #pollinators #summeriscoming #soareapples #learning #growalittlefruittree

It's been a week...seems like everything has been

It's been a week...seems like everything has been breaking around here recently. I've missed this view as our tractor has been in the shop for about a month. We finally got it back, just in time for me to break a whole bunch of fittings putting the pump back together. sometimes we have bad luck and sometimes we make avoidable mistakes. On weeks like this i try to just slow down and accept that my timeline is out the window but it will all get done in the end. Sometimes i remember, sometimes i yell and throw pipes. #goals

On the bright (literally) side, the sun came out and the swallows came home! We have several families who nest at the farm each year and they are one of the great joys of of my life. They were so excited to be back at their box, chittering and swooping around the entrance as the sun shone on the early plum blossoms. The pollinators were hard at work on the plum tree and the overwintered salad, and it was so lovely to feel a taste of spring.

This time of year is mostly devoted to greenhouse work, infrastructure projects, planning, and fruit care. I'll be posting more about how we care for our berries and trees next week!

#csa #localfood #localflowers #localfruit #holisticorchard

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