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Fresh Start in Hickory
We’d like to apologize for our absence from our beloved blog, Step Into The Woods. Unfortunate circumstances caused us to take a break, review our goals and reorganize our lives. We left the ‘organic farm’ at which we were previously living and working. We have decided to keep the farm experience to ourselves, for now,…
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Modular Arithmetic in the Garden
Math in the classroom was often joked about by our peers, while attending college, for lacking in real world application; however, we often apply the skill sets we learned in our daily lives. Just the other day we encountered an opportunity to apply modular arithmetic when sowing beans, cucumbers and zucchini. The beans and cucumbers were…
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DIY: Laminated Garden Signs
We recently transplanted over 100 tomato plants into the two hoophouses located on the farm. The problem we are tackling is that identifying the various tomato plants later in the season, once the plants are larger, is difficult with the current system of writing on a small wooden garden sign, similar to a popsicle stick.…
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A Look Back – Our First Month Farming
Khori and I started our first month farming as organic farm internships the first day of March. On that cold morning we woke up in the weebee, and attended a meeting in the farmhouse to discuss our farm duties. Projects and plans were explained and discussed, priorities were set, and the livestock care was shown by example. That…
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Stepping Into Organic Farming
We are blessed with an amazing opportunity we absolutely could not refuse – becoming organic farmers. We stumbled upon the opportunity when browsing through ‘Help Wanted’ ads, and came across an advertisement seeking a couple of people willing to intern at a small organic farm in Alamance County, North Carolina. We immediately read through the ad, discussed…