by Greg Alder | Jun 17, 2016 | Chickens, Pests |
Joel Salatin advises that you wake up every morning aiming to attack the weak link on your farm. That could be soil fertility, irrigation, labor efficiency, anything. The weak link in our yard has been — for a couple years now — a proliferation of earwigs...
by Greg Alder | Sep 21, 2015 | Pests |
Spent the last couple weeks in Oregon and Washington, and came home to notice a lot of leaves missing from an Early Girl tomato plant. Figured a hornworm had done some munching, but when I went to find it I found a second, and then a third, and then I kept finding...
by Greg Alder | Aug 19, 2015 | Native Plants, Pests |
A couple of the native plants I put in last fall and winter, 2014: The goal is to grow a hedgerow along the dirt road in order to mitigate dust created by cars and give more privacy to the yard and house. I’m using native plants for a number of reasons....
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