Barakah Heritage Farm USA

Month: May 2020

  • Perennial Vegetables & Perennial Vegetable Gardening with Eric Toensmeier (Book & DVD Bundle)

    Perennial Vegetables & Perennial Vegetable Gardening with Eric Toensmeier (Book & DVD Bundle)

    This entry is in the series Best Perennial Plant Books

    Imagine growing vegetables that require just about the same amount of care as perennial flowers and shrubs, need no annual tilling or planting, yet thrive and produce abundant and nutritious crops throughout the season. Get the best information on growing these easy and interesting crops from Eric Toensmeier’s award-winning book Perennial Vegetables, and tour his…;

    Imagine growing vegetables that require just about the same amount of care as perennial flowers and shrubs, need no annual tilling or planting, yet thrive and produce abundant and nutritious crops throughout the season.

    Get the best information on growing these easy and interesting crops from Eric Toensmeier’s award-winning book Perennial Vegetables, and tour his own lush forest garden in the new DVD, Perennial Vegetable Gardening with Eric Toensmeier

    About Perennial Vegetables:

    In Toensmeier’s book, Perennial Vegetables (Chelsea Green, 2007), the adventurous gardener will find information, tips, and sound advice on less-common edibles that will make any garden a perpetual, low-maintenance source of food. In his book, readers will find perennial vegetables are perfect as part of an edible-landscape plan or permaculture garden. Profiling more than a hundred species, with dozens of color photographs and illustrations, and filled with valuable growing tips, recipes, and resources, Perennial Vegetables is a groundbreaking and ground-healing book that will open the eyes of gardeners everywhere to the exciting world of edible perennials.

    About Perennial Vegetable Gardening with Eric Toensmeier (DVD):

    In the DVD—a culmination of workshops recorded in Mexico, Florida, and Massachusetts—plant specialist Eric Toensmeier introduces gardeners to more than 100 species of little-known, underappreciated plants. Ranging beyond the usual suspects (asparagus, rhubarb, and artichoke) to include such delights as ground cherry, ramps, air potatoes, the fragrant spring tree, and the much-sought-after, antioxidant-rich wolfberry (also known as the goji berry), Toensmeier explains how to raise, tend, harvest, and cook with plants that yield great crops and culinary satisfaction. Toensmeier also takes viewers on a plant-by-plant tour of his garden in Massachusetts.

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  • Sprouted Organic Raw California Walnuts, Family Orchard grown 2 lb

    Sprouted Organic Raw California Walnuts, Family Orchard grown 2 lb

    Certified Organic Sprouted Sea Salt Crispy Raw California Family Orchard Grown Walnuts. We work hard to keep our walnuts perfectly fresh, soak them in small batches in filtered water and mineral-rich Redmond Sea Salt in our commercial kitchen on our small family farm, low-temperature dry them below 105F to preserve vitamins and enzymes, bag them…;

    Certified Organic Sprouted Sea Salt Crispy Raw California Family Orchard Grown Walnuts. We work hard to keep our walnuts perfectly fresh, soak them in small batches in filtered water and mineral-rich Redmond Sea Salt in our commercial kitchen on our small family farm, low-temperature dry them below 105F to preserve vitamins and enzymes, bag them and then ship straight to you. We guarantee they are fresh and wonderful. Let us know and we will address any problems ASAP.

    Support our startup sustainable permaculture three generation small family farm. Gluten-free, Non-GMO, Vegan and Paleo. No peanuts, gluten, wheat, dairy or other allergens. We process only pecans and walnuts in our small farm commercial kitchen.Always fresh. No distributor warehouse time. Kept in ideal conditions, sprouted in our small farm commercial kitchen, shipped straight to Amazon. We keep Amazon warehouse time short. Date bagged and best by on each bag.
    Always raw. GAPS, Vegan and Paleo compliant.
    Peanut-free, gluten-free, dairy-free, non GMO facility. Only pecans and walnuts in our small farm commercial kitchen.
    Certified Organic Raw California Family Orchard Grown Walnuts.
    Support our 3-generation permaculture small family farm startup. 1000’s of happy customers.

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  • Chicken Tractor: The Permaculture Guide to Happy Hens and Healthy Soil

    Chicken Tractor: The Permaculture Guide to Happy Hens and Healthy Soil

    A chicken tractor is a bottomless, portable pen that fits over your garden beds. Just set it wherever you need help in your garden. The chickens peck and scratch the soil to clean your beds, eat pest bugs and weed seeds. Best of all, they provide eggs and meat with that old-fashioned flavor. Chicken tractors…;

    A chicken tractor is a bottomless, portable pen that fits over your garden beds. Just set it wherever you need help in your garden. The chickens peck and scratch the soil to clean your beds, eat pest bugs and weed seeds. Best of all, they provide eggs and meat with that old-fashioned flavor. Chicken tractors have helped thousands of gardeners have better gardens and taken chickens out of factory farms and put them in the garden where they are your personal helpers.Used Book in Good Condition

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  • Tropf-Blumat IG15654 Deck and Planter Box Kit, Small

    Tropf-Blumat IG15654 Deck and Planter Box Kit, Small

    The Tropf Blumat system is great for watering your balcony boxes, planters, hanging baskets, row crops – or as a complete system for your greenhouse (we can custom-design and supply all the parts). It fulfills the needs of the plants on an individual basis regardless of location, light levels or plant type. Saves your plants…;

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    The Tropf Blumat system is great for watering your balcony boxes, planters, hanging baskets, row crops – or as a complete system for your greenhouse (we can custom-design and supply all the parts). It fulfills the needs of the plants on an individual basis regardless of location, light levels or plant type. Saves your plants from excessive and incorrect watering. The Tropf Blumat system is always suitable when plant groupings require consistent moisture such as vegetable gardens, bushes and flower beds, grow bags and greenhouse containers. Not only do your plants receive the right amount of water, the slow closed dripping ensures that your plants receive warmed water avoiding shock. This Deck and Planter Kit is a great way to start your customized irrigation system. The flexible system can be expanded to include up to 500 drippers. See the “Blumat Accessories for Custom Irrigation Systems” on our site for all the accessories. HOW IT WORKS The Tropf Blumat self watering system functions fully automatically. As the soil dries, its natural suction power triggers the water outlet in the Tropf Blumat Sensor allowing the water to flow. When the soil is sufficiently moist, the Tropf Blumat automatically stops. It makes no noise and does not spray. Each Blumat Outdoor Sensor in the Deck and Planter Set, which are larger than the Blumat Juniors, covers an area of 12 inches diameter. To create your own system, add additional Supply Hose, Outdoor Sensors, and Distributor Drippers and you’re all set!Complete automatic watering without timers or power
    Give your plant just the right amount of water – never too much or too little
    Go on vacation without worrying about your plants
    Stop wasting time and nutrients
    Produces higher yields and quality

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  • Barakah Heritage Farm garden adventures 2020 – garden layout + early spring cold-loving plants

    Barakah Heritage Farm garden adventures 2020 – garden layout + early spring cold-loving plants

    We got the main veggie garden finished, except for one bed that will be double dug and composted this summer for fall crops.  Now that this garden is done, we can start planning and then planting.  (We will finish and plant the commercial garden and the potato/livestock feed garden in a week or so.

    We spend at least as much time planning the garden as we do actually planting, to make sure we get the best yields for our work, God willing.  Here are the steps that go into planning the garden for the year.  If this was a CSA or market garden, there would be even more planning involved to make sure enough was produced at all times to meet customer demand.  For us, because the garden is for our own use plus some impulse purchases by farm guests, we can be just a bit more relaxed this year.

    Our first step was to take a seed inventory, and go shopping to fill in any gaps.  We aren’t planting everything that we like to grow, just what the current bed space and our time will allow.  We keep a wish list of new plants to add each year.

    Make planning index cards, one per plant type.  Tomatoes get multiple cards because I like to space the tomatoes out, one per bed, around the edges of the garden to trellis them on the fence.  The cards include whether it is an early plant (E), normal, or late season (F for fall), whether it gets planted in succession (R for repeat), what other plants it likes, time to germination and harvest and notes about how it grew in previous years.  On the back of the card we mark what bed it is going in, at the end of the planning process.
    Draw out a master diagram of the garden beds.  If you don’t have a big whiteboard, you can tape paper together, or even draw with chalk on the driveway.
    Start laying cards out on the beds, moving them around to allow for preferred neighbors and also to avoid planting in the same spot as last year (this reduces disease and pests).  We also keep the tastiest plants away from the perimeter fence to (God willing) avoid tempting the goats.

    When all the cards are allocated to beds,  snap pics of each bed to save for planting and for next year’s planning.  Tip:  save the pics in your phone.  When you begin planting, you can pull up the pics for a handy planting diagram.

    This year’s early season crops include:

    • Lettuce
    • Radishes
    • Garlic
    • Onions
    • Carrots
    • Spinach
    • Turnip
    • Kale
    • Cilantro/Coriander
    • Cabbage

    For the actual planting, just follow the directions on each seed packet, or your notes on your handy cards if you are seed saving.  We actually cut the spacing roughly in half but no smaller than the expected size of the adult plant, and reduced the number of seeds, per the techniques of Square Foot Gardening, but without the expense and precise measurements of that technique.  Not sure if SFG is for you?  Here’s a balanced look at the pros and cons.

    So, the garden is planted and the rows labeled with a pink paint pen on small rocks.  Our next project, and next post, will be the commercial and potato/livestock gardens, God willing.

    Until then, happy planning and planting!  Stay warm!

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