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A "Wilder" Salad

A different kind of salad that is filled with greens other than the standard romaine, iceberg and red leaf lettuce.

FoodAlissa WelkerDecember 7, 2019food, vegetable farming, diversityComment

The Three Sisters

The Three Sisters is an ancient planting technique of combining corn, beans and squash on the same bed. When planted together, they provide benefits to the other two plants around them.

Food, Farm StoriesAlissa WelkerDecember 2, 2019farm, vegetable farming, companion planting, sustainable agricultureComment

Learnings From a 15 Acre Permaculture Farm

I’ve wrapped up my work at my first farm stay in New Zealand on a 15 acre permaculture farm. Over the past couple of weeks I have had the chance to prepare beds for planting, practice seed-saving, seed fresh beds and more. Along with these farm tasks I have also learned a lot about challenges of small scale vegetable growers.