Suck, squeeze, bang, and blow: the four steps required to power a 4-stroke engine. Mike Ott of the Mendocino Alcohol Fuel Group uses this moniker to make the mysteries of internal combustion engines easier to visualize. Intake, compression, combustion, and exhaust is the way Takashi Yogi, our resident Industrial Arts master, would teach it. Having…
Join us at the Grange Farm School on August 16th to catch a glimpse of life in the Practicum Student Program while celebrating our Farm Fresh Food Drive! We will begin the day at 9 am with pancakes at the Farm Schoolhouse (in the tradition of the Grange) and we will continue with tours of…
Join us for an entertaining and enlightening workshop on pruning fruit treeswith Leo Buc of Common Vision on August 8th, 2-7 pm, at the Ridgewood Ranch. You might remember our Winter Pruning course where we learned and experienced the strategies behind pruning in the dormant season, and we will have a review of these concepts as well…
Thank you CAN Cooperative‘s Kirk Fuller for this incredible video about the Grange Farm School. Share it with your friends, acquaintances, fellows, companions, cooperatives, networks… everyone!
The Sponsor-A-Plot Campaign for the Farm Fresh Food Drive is up and running, and we have begun distributing fresh, healthy produce to our local community. Our first stop was to the Ukiah Plowshares where we delivered 35 pounds of summer squash and 25 pounds of cucumbers to a very dedicated and happy crew of cooks…
Every time we visit or talk to a new farmer, we expand our perception of the possible. Whether it is a new gate latch or potato hilling technique, a new niche marketing concept or community building dynamic, or some other unique challenge with a context specific and creative solution, we find that farm tours and…
As a farmer, it is hard not to be eager for summer to come. It seems there is so much time in the winter, in the spring it seems like the plants should be growing faster, and all along harvesting roots and leaves, wondering when the fruit will come. As the field crop manager in…
REPOST FROM WOWSER’S BLOG “On Thursday July 23rd from 6:30 – 7:30 pm, Wowser will host a ribbon cutting ceremony for the Mendo-Lake Food Hub. We’d like to invite you to attend and celebrate with us. The Food Hub is accepting orders and delivering local produce to local restaurants, retailers, and schools. The Hub manages…
Star Thistle. It’s everywhere this year in the back pasture of the Grange Farm School. We curse it as it pierces our legs and remains unpalatable to livestock once it goes to flower. Even with a crew of 8 digging the plant out, we make slow progress against the vast brambles of thistle. But on…
NO CARPENTRY EXPERIENCE REQUIRED! Learn to build a cold frame and the Grange Farm School!! For only $50.00 and you can bring home with you your cold frame you built from the workshop, all materials included…THESE ARE LITTLE LAKE GRANGE WINDOWS!!! AWESOME! Come for one of two work sessions 9-12, or 1-4 with an hour…