From GENE LOGSDON
I have a hunch that readers thought I was joking when I wrote recently about growing tree seedlings in roof gutters. The picture above proves that it works. I thought by now (late summer) the seedlings would have died for lack of water, but we’ve had regular rain so [...]
Posts tagged ‘Gene’
Gene Logsdon: Transplanting Tree Seedlings
Posted September 1st, 2010 by Admin. Comment (0).
Gene Logsdon: Throwing Away Billions of Dollars In Pet Manure
Posted August 18th, 2010 by Admin. Comment (1).
From GENE LOGSDON
Upper Sandusky, Ohio
Not until I was well into writing my new book, Holy Shit: Managing Manure To Save Mankind, which is about how to manage manure for soil enrichment, did I realize that cats, dogs and horses are a very significant source of valuable fertilizer that we are mostly throwing [...]
Gene Logsdon: Good Hoes/Bad Hoes
Posted August 12th, 2010 by Admin. Comments (2).
From GENE LOGSDON
If you look closely at the photo above, you will see what I failed to see for many years. Although I think of myself as a venerable member of the Brethren of the Holy Hoe Society, and have made shiny the handles of more than a few hoes, I took their construction [...]
Gene Logsdon: Happy Homestead Happenstances
Posted July 28th, 2010 by Admin. Comment (0).
From GENE LOGSDON
How many slick tricks have you learned about farming and gardening more or less by accident? My favorite example happened because of laziness. I didn’t clean out the roof gutter on the barn for over a year. I have a longstanding prejudice against roof gutters anyway. Why not just let the water [...]
Gene Logsdon: Despite Gloom, Things Are Looking Up For Garden Farming
Posted July 21st, 2010 by Admin. Comment (1).
From GENE LOGSDON
There were several times so far this year when I almost wished I lived in a high rise luxury apartment in New York far removed from the paltry world of cutworms and purslane. First the crows ate up my whole first planting of open-pollinated field corn and when I [...]
Gene Logsdon: Fireflies In July
Posted July 14th, 2010 by Admin. Comment (1).
From GENE LOGSDON
Observing the lengths that humans will go these days in search of entertainment just totally blows my mind away. I recently learned that people by the thousands stand in line at an amusement park (Cedar Point on Lake Erie) for two hours to take a ride that lasts eight [...]
Gene Logsdon: Pancakes From Perennial Wheatgrass Grain
Posted July 7th, 2010 by Admin. Comment (0).
From GENE LOGSDON
I hope I don’t sound too self-important when I announce an historic moment in our kitchen. Carol just made pancakes with flour from a new and startling source. Wes Jackson, the celebrated plant geneticist, author, farmer (and years ago a fairly good football player), has been experimenting for decades [...]
Gene Logsdon: Acres and Pains
Posted June 23rd, 2010 by Admin. Comment (0).
From GENE LOGSDON
There is a delightfully droll old book by that name lamenting the ways that nature humbles and humiliates farmers every step of the way from planting to harvest. I have been a victim of nature’s whims (my whims really) this spring and I’ve got the acres and the aches [...]