Eva King is an over wintering intern at the Grange Farm School It’s winter time at the Grange Farm School and it has been raining non-stop. With California being in a pretty serious drought, I’m not allowed to complain, especially to the farmers. This El Nino is welcomed here and it’s making itself so at…
With new years resolutions just beginning to sink in, we encourage you to add another: to think holistically, act holistically, and manage your land holistically. If you want to learn more about holistic management, there are some really incredible opportunities coming up including more from Holistic Management International, and a collaborative workshop between the Savory…
The Grange Farm School works to improve the future of farming by training the next generation of farmers. We recognize how important community support is in that endeavor, and are constantly stressing the fact that a network is key to success in farming. From the moment of this school’s inception, there has been a herculean amount of help from the…
Over the next 20 years, an estimated 400 million acres of farmland in the US will be up for sale by owners age 65 and older. -The Greenhorns Land is becoming available for the next generation of farmers but with farm equipment, land, and education costs so high, farming is an incredibly daunting field for young…
For the past twelve weeks at the Grange Farm School, the students have been involved in raising 120 Red Ranger chickens for meat. They are currently between 3.5 to 5 pounds and look like healthy, happy birds. With daily chores of feeding, cleaning, moving their pens, detangling them from fencing, and herding them through giant stalks…
The count down begins at the Grange Farm School including two more monday meetings, six pigs and sixty chickens to slaughter, and a tasty thanksgiving farewell party. We begin this week recovering from halloween by tucking our wigs and face paint away and digging out our carhartt’s and boots. Hot Buttered Rum played a benefit…
We arise to the call of the trumpet, a sound which promises coffee, breakfast, and a new week at the Grange Farm School. Gathered around our outdoor dinning gazebo we discuss our week past and week to come. With an oversized calendar laid out on the table we fill each square with daily doings. Here…
On frequent mornings fair, whilst whistle the waking winged denizens of sun-ready oaks and peeping boppish bays, midst a modal mist whose soaking tones warrant no woe, there jets aloft a golden burst pure and untamed (nor yet famed), an amendment upon the rooster’s ancient decree of Day Come Once More which summons the Grange…
Pictures and Captions by Sarah Brady : June 2015 Practicum Student Grazing Cattle: Cattle grazing in the field between our sleeping and studying quarters and the grange crop/grazing field. Annual grasses (now dry having set seed already) include wild out (Avena fatua), ripgut brome (Bromus diandrus), hedgehog dogtail grass (Cynosurus echinatus), and some soft chess/brome (Bromus hordeaceus)….
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