lessons ⋆ Owl Creek Farm https://owlcreek.ca/tag/lessons/ Experience Northern Alberta’s Owl Creek Farm - Follow along with our adventures with our goats, chickens, farming, favourite recipes, and handmade soap! Thu, 02 Jan 2025 04:28:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://owlcreek.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/fav.png lessons ⋆ Owl Creek Farm https://owlcreek.ca/tag/lessons/ 32 32 As summer fades https://owlcreek.ca/as-summer-fades/ https://owlcreek.ca/as-summer-fades/#respond Tue, 28 Sep 2021 16:26:03 +0000 https://owlcreek.ca/?p=18465 It has been a whirlwind summer. The garden went in, with many lessons learned through the whole season. In early July, we got enough of the fencing done to put…

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]]> https://owlcreek.ca/as-summer-fades/feed/ 0 Painfully obvious lessons https://owlcreek.ca/painfully-obvious-lessons/ https://owlcreek.ca/painfully-obvious-lessons/#comments Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:41:50 +0000 http://www.garden-of-eatin.com/?p=363 More lessons, con’t from this post… Tomato cages. Just suck it up and buy them. Stakes do no good when they have 6 “main” stalks coming up from the ground!…

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]]> https://owlcreek.ca/fall-winter-cover-crop/feed/ 4 More lessons from the field https://owlcreek.ca/more-lessons-from-the-field/ https://owlcreek.ca/more-lessons-from-the-field/#comments Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:53:49 +0000 http://www.garden-of-eatin.com/?p=116 continuing on a previous post…. Pea and bean trellis needs to have vertical lines to climb the best. And “garden twine” from Lowes is crap. Look at it wrong and…

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]]> https://owlcreek.ca/more-lessons-from-the-field/feed/ 1 Lessons from the field https://owlcreek.ca/lessons-from-the-field/ https://owlcreek.ca/lessons-from-the-field/#comments Thu, 29 May 2008 07:16:55 +0000 http://www.garden-of-eatin.com/?p=102 errr, garden. This will likely become a page all to itself, depending on how much I find I’ve learned. To start, I have learned the peas need very little nitrogen.…

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]]> https://owlcreek.ca/lessons-from-the-field/feed/ 4 Earthworms move slow…right? Right?? https://owlcreek.ca/earthworms-move-slowright-right/ https://owlcreek.ca/earthworms-move-slowright-right/#comments Wed, 28 May 2008 06:53:17 +0000 http://www.garden-of-eatin.com/?p=99 So I’ve always been of the notion that earthworms are slow. I mean, they let you pick them up and they move around in your hand slow, then inch around…

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