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@lacostas Jun 25, 2018, 2:47 PM UTC

Gourmet Mushrooms

Here is some pics of the gourmet mushrooms we are now growing on our farm. With our own lab on the farm we can now make our own mushroom cultures and have grown White, Black , Chocolate and King Oyst…

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lacostas
@lacostas Mar 12, 2018, 5:01 PM UTC

Pear Tree seeds update

30 days after planting, the pear seeds are 6-8 inches tall. They are under a light and have a fan on low to stiffen up the stems. Will maybe have to transplant into their own pots, we were hoping to…

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@lacostas Mar 12, 2018, 4:26 PM UTC

Fort Laramie Strawberries are part of our permaculture project

Fort Laramie strawberries produces a constant supply of sweet berries throughout the growing season, they are a self-pollinating berry and grow best in hardiness zones 3-9 in full sun.They make a gre…

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@lacostas Mar 10, 2018, 3:24 PM UTC

Oyster Mushrooms on Sugar Maple stump

A few pictures of oyster mushrooms fruiting on a sugar maple stump in our back yard. We inoculated the stump about 2 years ago and it gave its first flush last fall. You can see the holes where a bir…

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@lacostas Mar 9, 2018, 2:06 PM UTC

Coneflowers are part of our permaculture project.

Echinacea, which are commonly called coneflowers, is a perennial plant that give an abundance of flowers every year. Coneflowers will attract honey bees and other types of native bees, butterflies an…

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@lacostas Mar 2, 2018, 4:01 PM UTC

Cheap wasp trap that works

We are trying to go full permaculture on our farm in the future and wasps have their place here as a beneficial insect. We do have a problem with too many of them late summer and fall around our humm…

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lacostas
@lacostas Mar 1, 2018, 1:17 PM UTC

Planting a cover crop in the pig pen last year

After our berkshire pigs exhausted the entire pen of plants and roots we move them to a new pasture pen. Our hog pens are fenced in cattle fencing and have one hot wire about 8-10 inches off the grou…

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lacostas
@lacostas Feb 25, 2018, 8:09 PM UTC

Staghorn Sumac is part of our permaculture project.

Staghorn Sumac fruit clusters or seed pods are beautiful and make nice autumn foliage on the homestead. Sumac can grow up to 25 feet tall and over 50 years old in zones 3-8. Sumac thickets provide fo…

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@lacostas Feb 21, 2018, 3:37 PM UTC

Rhubarb is part of our permaculture project.

Rhubarb is a herbaceous perennial growing from short, thick rhizomes. Rhizomes is a modified subterranean stem of a plant that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. It produces large poisonous l…

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@lacostas Feb 18, 2018, 4:46 PM UTC

Grow Ginkgo

Ginkgo Biloba commonly known as ginkgo tree or a maidenhair tree. It has various uses in traditional medicine and as a source of food. Most nurseries sell only male ginkgo trees. The female produces…

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