Eat locally, seasonally produced food. Buy direct from the farmers and the makers. Grow your own, make your own. Start a farmers' market today.
Posted in Farm Stand Marfa Newsletter, Gardening on Mar 29th, 2008
FARM STAND MARFA NEWSLETTER MARCH 29TH
FEED YOUR SOIL COMPOST
Instead of sending organic materials to landfills and paying the city for the service, compost your yard clippings and kitchen vegetable scraps. As much as 1/3 of city waste comes from yard clean-ups and 1/10 from kitchen garbage. Composting is nature’s way of building soil. Leaves fall, [...]
Posted in Farm Stand Marfa Newsletter on Mar 23rd, 2008
Plant cold-hardy spring vegetable seeds now.
Spring is in the air. Male skunks are traipsing through the yards and crossing the roads looking for mates. Fortunately, the turkey vulture, an avian scavenger, is busy keeping the highway clean of road kill, even the skunks. (See below for Skunked Dog Bath.)
South of us along the Rio Grande, [...]
