The Ohio Brooder was originally designed during WWII as a way of conserving resources while brooding chicks. Find photos and plans online to see an efficient and inexpensive way of raising chicks!
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…
Though food is still plentiful, with only temporary and localized shortages, the threat of the COVID 19 crisis to the food supply is considerable. There is no evidence thus far that the disease can be transmitted via food or packaging (though the virus apparently remains viable on plastic for 2 to 4 days). The real…
It may be wet outside but in California, fire safety is always a priority. At the Grange Farm School, student tents come with a wood stove. When it’s cold (not that often) we burn a lot of wood, resulting in a lot of potential disasters. Today we had Little Lake Grange officer Mike Burgess give a…
Surrounded by rustling, rolling grasslands, an irrigated pasture, vegetable, grain, and fruit production dotted throughout this agrarian valley, the Summer Practicum Students found themselves at the end of their first week with a visitor at our Friday dinner potluck. Colin Seis hails from Australia, where he manages Winona, a 2,000 acre property producing merino wool,…
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…
Daniel Spiro continues his interview series with recent graduates from the School of Adaptive Agriculture. On a Saturday afternoon in late summer, after spending the day with the SAA crew preparing for the annual Fundraiser Brunch, I sat down with practicum graduate Loraine for a chat. With a strand of pink hair, a perpetual and…
