#microfarm

[bumblebeeappletree]

On a 1/3rd acre urban lot in Corvallis, Oregon, horticulture professor and youtuber Andrew Millison has spent the past 12 years turning a grassy yard into a high-yielding microfarm with more than enough produce, eggs and honey to feed his family.

Every corner of his front, back, and side yard is covered with fruits, vegetables, cover crops, bee hives, chicken coops, grey water treatment plants, and even a bamboo forest that supplies garden fencing.

He intentionally planted fruit all along the perimeter of his corner lot to feed the neighborhood, as well as plenty of native flowers to encourage pollinators.

Millison, who teaches online permaculture courses at Oregon State, turned an old shed on the property into his home office so he can now take breaks to tend his garden while working:

“For me, it's the perfect relationship between work and garden because I'll be sitting here and I'll think the chickens are being really loud, and I’ll go and see they're out of food or I'll hear the humming of the bees and suddenly be like ‘oh my god my bees are swarming.’ I feel like my work and play relationship is very nice.”

Andrew Millison

https://www.youtube.com/user/amillison

https://www.andrewmillison.com/

permaculturedesign.oregonstate.edu

On *faircompanies: https://faircompanies.com/videos/aced...

#Kirsten Dirksen #solarpunk #permaculture #Andrew Millison #Corvallis #Oregon #horticulture #microfarm #garden #gardening #oregon state university #chickens #Youtube

[quailtopiamicrofarm]

Quail is the new chicken

Incubation of these little ones are about 17 days. Literally the size of a button, these quail are small but have big personalities.

#button quail #startup #small business #quail #coturnix quail #tinyhomestead #female owned #microfarm #microfarming

[microfarmdesigns]

Shasta daisies bring life to the garden.

#microfarm #joy of gardening #food farming #gardening #farm #insects #daisies #flowers #butterflies #pollinators

[hippie-homestead]

It's been a wild ride this year. Y'all have made it a good amount better. Thank you for letting me share our journey with you. Here’s to another year of abundance to come. #top9 #endoftheyear #homestead #homesteading #homesteadlife #garden #handmade #urbanfarm #goodbye2022

#homesteading #homestead #homesteadlife #garden #urbanfarm #microfarm #goodbye2022

[cropswapla]

Persimmon Season is here in Los Angeles. Our members received both Fuyu (pictured here) and Hachiya Persimmons in their members' shares this morning.

#persimmon #agriculture #farming #vegetables #farmers #food justice #asante #lasalle #organic #microfarm #harvesting

[ambassadorbrewingco]

Our grapefruit rosemary ginger kombucha will rest for 7-10 days for max flavor infusion before being filtered & bottled 🤤☺ #brewsrq #drearthorganics #backyardfarm #microfarm #foodforest #foodnotlawns #growfoodnotlawns #urbangarden #urbanorchard #permaculture #americanhomebrewersassociation #homebrew #womenwhobrew #girlswhobrew #brewster #pinkbootssociety #craftbeer #kombucha #cottagefood #shoplocal #stpete #saintpetersburgflorida #gulfportflorida https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc5662VJQ91/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#brewsrq #drearthorganics #backyardfarm #microfarm #foodforest #foodnotlawns #growfoodnotlawns #urbangarden #urbanorchard #permaculture #americanhomebrewersassociation #homebrew #womenwhobrew #girlswhobrew #brewster #pinkbootssociety #craftbeer #kombucha #cottagefood #shoplocal #stpete #saintpetersburgflorida #gulfportflorida

[shefliesbytheseatofherplants]

The OSU Food Hero Challenge is officially underway here. Today I started a brand new mini greenhouse with a tray of zinnia, a tray of marigolds, two 6 six cells of kale, two 6 cells of lettuce, three 6 cells of basil, and one 6 cell of beefsteak tomatoes. We'll see what happens!

#foodhero #cottagecore #permaculture #backyardgarden #microfarm #pollinators #oregon

[futoshiota]

Good job kids! at @farmersmarketjp #farmersmarket #farmlife #farm #organicfarm #microfarm #farmer #farmerskitchen #fatherandkids (at 青山ファーマーズマーケット) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfm6-VShe3j/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#farmersmarket #farmlife #farm #organicfarm #microfarm #farmer #farmerskitchen #fatherandkids

[correctopinionhaver]

microfarming women on tumblr: *post pics and stories about their chickens*

me:

#farming

[weatherman667]

Turns barren suburban lot into high-yield Microfarm & YT studio

Buys a standard suburb house, and turns the whole place into a food garden.

Place the chicken coop on the front yard/back yard line, this way he can open it up to one yard at a time.

Plants support plants to protect the soil and attract pollinators.  Literally attracted 3 swarms of bees that he now keeps.

Weaves his vines into the arch and fencing.

Keeps the trees low on the south side to let in the low winter sun.

Has a green house that uses water barrels as for thermal capacity to catch the sunlight.

Won’t export any organic material to the city, and as such has built up about 4 feet of soil.

Runtime:  31:47

Warning:  Using your own poop for compost can lead to microbes to be reintroduced into your diet.

#youtube #Kirsten Dirksen

[murraysiskind]

The superbowl with your husband tweet is literally just hetero microfarming with my gamer wife posting. If we can all be real

[thelaughingmuse]

Down on the farm (not)

I am planning to move out of the metro area, buy acreage, build a net-zero house, and grow several types of vegetables. I want to do this for several reasons:

I prefer to interact with my neighbors as infrequently as possible, but I still want to be able to enjoy the outdoor spaces of my home.

I enjoy nurturing plants...to an extent. If I can't eat it, I don't want to put the work into it.

I like being able to try different spices, and think it would be very cool to be able to share the "excess" spices with others.

I know that I do not have the stamina to care for farm animals, even animals as seemingly low-maintenance as ducks/chickens/pigeons.

Caring for animals is EXPENSIVE. I have five delightsome cats, and their food and medical bills are not cheap. And I do not want to become the kind of microfarmer who has ducks or chickens that don't lay enough eggs to be profitable, or have health issues and so aren't both consistent and safe egg-providers.

I want a house that will be liveable as I get older and become less mobile. That means a one-story house...and since more people now want single-floor homes, they cost more than multistory homes, even multistory homes with more square footage. An "age-in-place" home can also include power outlets higher up the walls, wider doors and hallways (to more easily accomodate walkers and wheelchairs), toilets with grab-bars, and showers with grab-bars and a bench. Yes, it's possible to retrofit an existing house to have the shower-with-bench and the grab-bars without breaking the bank. It costs a lot more money, though, to rebuild an entire house with wider doorways and hallways.

I want a house that recycles my grey water (flushing the toilets and/or watering the plants) and gets most of its energy from solar (particularly a battery or two that can run the essentials during a 15-24 hour outage), but is also hooked to the electrical grid so that I can have enough power even in the winter. It is possible to add solar panels to the roof of an existing house...but if the roof doesn't face the right direction or is partially shaded, the output isn't as much as it could be.

I also need to have high-speed internet. That means broadband. I don't want to use DSL (that's so 1990s) or be stuck relying on satellite internet (because fuck Elon.) I can take care of this by doing my research before I even go to walk a property.

I can buy land and build custom, or I can hunt around for a rambler with just the right orientation that's available, buy it ($500K and upward), and then spend another $100K+ retrofitting it. I'd rather just go with Option A.

Ideally, I'd get 15-20 acres and have several tiny homes for friends and friends-of-friends to live in for 5-10 years and contribute toward annual property taxes while they save up money for a downpayment on a house of their own - or land of their own, whichever. (Saving a downpayment is difficult even on a tech-industry salary, and saving a downpayment while also paying other bills is nigh-on impossible.) I know I'd have to do a lot of research on that first, though: what legal restrictions are in place for such a thing? What kind of contracts would I need people to sign (because while I would not be charging monthly rent, this would be a tenant-landlord situation. I need to be able to hold tenants to a maximum term, and if someone's a disruptive asshole I have to have remedies to evict them. They also need to know that I'm not going to suddenly evict them on a whim, or suddenly start charging them a whole lot more rent than they initially agreed to pay. And other bits.)

(I don't want to be a vacation-home hostess. Too much work, too much bother, too many strangers traipsing about my property.)

I don't know how long this will take, but if there's a big ol' housing crash in the next year my dreams may go up in smoke - or may be delayed until the economy recovers, which might take 5-10 years. My home has appreciated an insane amount since I bought it, and selling it at its current estimated value would give me enough money to buy at least 5 acres of land, build a custom net-zero home, and have a very small mortgage - even with the recent rate hikes. But that's not a step that I can take without more research and planning...like, how to find architects who are familiar with building net-zero homes that still comply with local permitting regulations. It isn't impossible. It's just...a lot.

This is going to be the ultimate project manager job.

Too bad I don't like being a project manager, because this would be a HELL of a resume-item.

#net zero #age in place #homesteading #my daily life

[microfarmdesigns]

Merry - Golds 😉😎👩‍🌾

#joy of gardening #microfarm #gardening #growing food #marigolds #flowers #microgarden

[hippie-homestead]

We got out first blackberries off our vine that I've been growing for 2 yrs now. These ones were a smidge tart but the rest were good. Had to pull off a little early because the birds have now discovered my berries... Also onions blooming, squash getting loaded with blossoms and purple green beans! The onions that are blooming were onions that had been thrown out by a store for not being good enough. They were fine, I pulled off the outer layers, planted the 5 sections it had and yada. Now we will have seeds for this variety that will continue to strengthen and be adapted to our soil make up here. * * * * * * * * * * #spring #garden #veggies #berries #blackberry #gardening #farm #microfarm #homestead #homesteading #permaculture #gardenlife #homesteadlife #homegrown https://www.instagram.com/p/CdQzK71ux1G/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#spring #garden #veggies #berries #blackberry #gardening #farm #microfarm #homestead #homesteading #permaculture #gardenlife #homesteadlife #homegrown

[cropswapla]

Each of our farms have their own identity. Asante Microfarm is bright and bold flavors and colors. Look at this rainbow of delicious produce!

#microfarm #vegetables #agriculture #farming #food justice

[ambassadorbrewingco]

Coming Soon - Dragonfruit 😁😋🍻 #brewsrq #anvilbrewingequipment #imperialyeast #omegayeast #drearthorganics #blackkowmanure #backyardfarm #microfarm #foodforest #foodnotlawns #growfoodnotlawns #gardening #urbangarden #urbanorchard #permaculture #americanhomebrewersassociation #homebrew #womenwhobrew #girlswhobrew #brewster #pinkbootssociety #craftbeer #drinklocalbeer #hardseltzer #shoplocal #cottagefood #stpete #saintpetersburgflorida #gulfportflorida https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch7vyljJe9A/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#brewsrq #anvilbrewingequipment #imperialyeast #omegayeast #drearthorganics #blackkowmanure #backyardfarm #microfarm #foodforest #foodnotlawns #growfoodnotlawns #gardening #urbangarden #urbanorchard #permaculture #americanhomebrewersassociation #homebrew #womenwhobrew #girlswhobrew #brewster #pinkbootssociety #craftbeer #drinklocalbeer #hardseltzer #shoplocal #cottagefood #stpete #saintpetersburgflorida #gulfportflorida