Author Archives: Farmer Paul

Part 3: How and What to Plant Once your garden beds are ready… in April (or earlier)… it’s time to plant them! Many wonderful crops love the cold nights of late winter and spring and will produce wonderfully at this time of year. In fact, just about anything can be transplanted at this point except [...]

Part II: Building Healthy Soil When I was a child, my image of starting a new garden each spring included the back breaking work of turning over the soil with a shovel or garden fork to get rid of the weeds and loosen the soil. Of course, this job was usually hoisted on me by [...]

So named because it belongs to the lily and rose family, Garlic has held an important place in the medicinal and cultural roots of almost every major civilization on Earth over the past three to four thousand years. Romans fed garlic to their soldiers to make them courageous. Egyptian slaves built the pyramids on a [...]