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Your First Vegetable Garden – Part One: Planning the Garden -The Basics

March 14, 2010

Just starting out with gardening?  Planning a productive vegetable garden is a lot easier than you imagine.  Just remember to start small with your first garden.  Even if you have a huge backyard and dream of growing food for family and friends, start off small.  Starting small allows you to get the feel of it, [...]

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Update: FFGC Instructions

March 5, 2010

We’ve updated pages 1 and 2 of the instructions. We’ve updated the introductory section to include reference to the Template Use file, and also added information about why Corn is in the cold weather crop section and why cauliflower is in both hot and cold weather sections of the calculator.

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Workshop This Saturday: Plan your CSA or Garden with the Fantastic Farm & Garden Calculator

March 4, 2010

Colorado Local Sustainability and HeartEye Village CSA in Lafayette, CO will be offering a workshop on using the Fantastic Farm & Garden Calculator to plan your CSA or garden. This workshop will teach you how to use the Fantastic Farm and Garden Calculator to plan your garden or farm plot in order to produce the [...]

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Germinating Seeds in Paper Towel

March 1, 2010

Garden season (as well as farming season) is upon us and if you haven’t already started planning you garden or farm… it is time to get planning! (And why not use the Fantastic Farm & Garden Calculator to help you get the most out of your farm or garden?) As part of your planning and [...]

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Update: FFGC Instructions Updated-Seed Weights & Leek Seeds

February 15, 2010

With the seed weights, weight conversions are based on an average across varieties so when it comes to ordering specific varieties there could be significant divergence in seed weight from what is listed here.  When you have doubts, go with the seed counts! Also, we’ve misplaced the Leek seed counts!  Sorry!  For the amount of [...]

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Potato Towers – Fact or Fiction

February 13, 2010

[Original posted on our other site, Local Sustainability.] As we get ready for our second season with our micro-farm and CSA, we are looking into why a couple crops were less successful than they should have been. One crop in particular are the potatoes. While we bought excellent seed potatoes from a Colorado grower, I [...]

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Update: FFGC Seed Weight Info

February 12, 2010

We are currently reassessing the seed weights for several of the crops listed in the Fantastic Farm and Garden Calculator. In the meantime, it is best to order based on seed count.

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Start Planning Your Farm or Garden

January 31, 2010

We’ve added a quick intro video to the Fantastic Farm & Garden Calculator to help you see how easy it is to start planning your farm or garden using the Fantastic Farm & Garden Calculator.

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Update: Calculator Instructions Revision

January 28, 2010

The instructions have been modified regarding Cold Weather Crop Inputs. Under the number of weeks of harvest in the early part of the season, you cannot input 0. Unfortunately, due to a constraint of the software we are using you also cannot input “10”. You can have 9 weeks of harvest or 11 weeks of [...]

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Update: Template Use Instructions Updated

January 20, 2010

The template use instructions for the Fantastic Farm & Garden Calculator have been update. Here are the details: Changes occur on page 10 of the PDF, and include: “Use the filled in Planting Overview, and the filled in Crop Rotation template to fill in the Planting and Harvest Guides.” Has been changed to: “Use the [...]

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