Terrabyte Farm

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Archive for September, 2009

What makes good beef?

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Our Hereford steer will be going to the butcher on October 4th. As with the pigs, we will be offering cooperative shares of the live steer. We plan to keep half of the steer for ourselves and then sell ten shares of the other half. Our aim is the best beef possible. [...]

Building a polytunnel

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

While we’re not done, we feel like we’ve made good progress on our polytunnel (aka high tunnel, grow tunnel, etc).  The hardest part was driving the ground pipe (1.66 inch diameter galvanized steel) into the ground.  The hoops are then attached to those ground pipe using self-tapping metal screws.  There were 13 on each side [...]