Holistic Struggle with Star Thistle
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Holistic Struggle with Star Thistle

BySchool of Adaptive Agriculture

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…

Those Beds Aren’t Going to Prep Themselves..
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Those Beds Aren’t Going to Prep Themselves..

Byadmin

Tim Ward here, Farm School Co-director since this past December and current manager of the field crop production here at the Grange Farm School site. Planting time for the summer is almost here.  The “last frost date” (average) for the Grange Farm School main fields, in a frost-prone valley bottom of the Northern California coast range,…