Making Soil Better with Mushrooms

By Jenks Farmer | July 21, 2014 |

When you dig up a plant, you get plant, roots and dirt.  If you take that plant away, you leave a hole. In field nurseries or turf farms, we do that over and over and over and leave a big hole.  Filling that hole can be a big problem.  Buying top soil is expensive.  It…

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Asparagus from Seed

By Jenks Farmer | July 5, 2014 |

Everyone, yes even the web, will tell you that if you want to grow asparagus, start from crowns planted in the fall.    But some recent research and plain old common sense says that asparagus from seed can be just as productive.  It certainly is cheaper. If you look around gardens this time of year, you’ll…

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Farm to Table? No, just dirt to mouth….

By Jenks Farmer | May 10, 2013 |

I had a beer with a scientist this week.  She told me to buck up, get ready to face the future.  GMO’s are nothing compared with what’s happening in Universities now.  What’s coming down the pike, via the science of synthetic biology.  It’s all amazing, scary, promising, complex and it’s going to be in your…

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