Butternut Squash Pound Cake Cupcakes
*This was written a few years back* In the fall I made sure to puree and freeze butternut squash. Today as I was looking in the freezer I came across the butternut squash puree-perfect! So why not defrost the yummy squash and bake some cupcakes. [...]
Vases and Vessels
Putting together a pretty bouquet of flowers can be lots of fun. You can add twigs, feathers and ribbon, or anything that you think would like nice. Then comes choosing the perfect vase or vessels to display the flowers in. When choosing a display for flowers [...]
Organic Tomatoes Possible?
For the past four years we have been growing 1000 Tomato Plants to supply our Farmer's Market. This was the first time we grew tomatoes other than a few plants for personal consumption. We did not spray for any insects or disease and didn't do any form of trellising or [...]
FarmSmart
I had the pleasure of participating in an agricultural conference called "FarmSmart" held at the University of Guelph. I was in a discussion panel with two of my peers to discuss our individual fertilizer strategies and have the room ask us questions about our methods. I had [...]
Optimistic about Optimize For Soybeans
The LCO in Optimize® works independently of moisture and temperature and has shown field observations to speed this process up by three weeks.
Eating Real and Fresh in the winter
During the warm summer months we made sure to cut, freeze and process most of our vegetables. Being a new mom I sometimes found this task difficult to do. However, to me feeding the frozen squash and corn to our baby has been very rewarding. [...]
Surfire Ag Systems a Good Option for Planter Liquid Kit
Application mapping; we need to be able to make an accurate application map so that we never loose track of exactly what rates are where in the field when we are doing trials. This is essential for getting confidence in evaluation of our yield data.
Yield Data to Dollars
the most important thing in precision technology for us as farmers was the ability to collect data and review on a comparative basis the maps of field processes to see if what you are doing has enough relative difference to something new that would warrent adoption in the cropping system.