Category Archives: Corn

Trying 3 Sisters Style Planting ….. Again

Posted on May 3, 2015 by Tom

Some years ago I gave it a try, without knowing more than the growing beans up cornstalks and covering the ground with squash vines.  It was a bit of a disaster. Higher hopes this time.  I have a strong stalked … Continue reading →

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First Planting Day At The Ness Farm

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Tom

Packed up the car.  Perhaps a bit more ambitious than was reasonable, being we did not get out there until after noon, and I brought over 120 potato sets, 800+ onions, two kinds of corn, lutz beets, and rutabagas. That … Continue reading →

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A Year In Pictures

Posted on January 1, 2015 by Tom

So, photos starting with last winter, up until a few weeks ago.  We lived through Christmas, I slept through the New Year, and here we are in 2015.  Hope you enjoy this look back, and stay with us through the … Continue reading →

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Pasture Adickes Farm, Victor Kucyk 2175 Corn, Harvesting With Benjy

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Tom

It was a bit of an unexpected day.  Had thought I was going to be doing a mass planting of garlic out at their farm.  If I had checked my computer right before I left the house, I might have … Continue reading →

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Still At It

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Tom

Last night I and my girls shelled popcorn.  We were going to be meeting a friend, and making a trade, the next day (today) and a third of the popcorn was a portion of what we were trading. Another part … Continue reading →

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Another Saturday At The Ness Farm

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Tom

This last weekend Patti, Phoebe and I went out to the Ness farm to finish picking nearly all of the popcorn, and see what else could be gleaned from the field. Phoebe and Patti husked it all just to reduce … Continue reading →

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Grunt’s Autumn Red Popcorn

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Tom

For those lucky enough to know him, Grunt was a one farm seed bank, seed saver, and crop breeder in Canada, just north of the Idaho panhandle.  I speak of him in the past-tense, because he is.  Shortly before his … Continue reading →

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Fall, School & First Frost

Posted on September 14, 2014 by Tom

So a lot has happened since I last posted.   Phoebe hit the 8th anniversary of her birth.  I took her out for coffee and a cherry tart before anyone else was awake. We have had a less than ideal growing … Continue reading →

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Braiding Corn

Posted on August 29, 2014 by Tom

I would not call it an art form.  It is just the way corn sorting, drying, and storing was described by Buffalo Bird Woman in an old history of Native American Agriculture I read years ago (and honestly still go … Continue reading →

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Pink Flour Corn

Posted on August 18, 2014 by Tom

I am going to split things into a couple of different posts.  We have been exceptionally busy, and not all of what I would consider good.  There have been issues with the gardens and predation by animals.  Patti lost her … Continue reading →

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