Category: Dirt, Mud, and other Nonsense
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Into The Spider-Verse
Spiders are part of a healthy farm ecosystem, and lately, our has plenty.
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Is it Possible to Have Zero Waste?
How we work to reduce waste on the farm.
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Wood Chips Are Gardening Gold
How we use mulch on the farm, and why you should, too.
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How to Give Up on Engineering
When folks ask me how long I’ve been farming, I usually first tell them “I used to be an Engineer.” I don’t know whether that information is really necessary to answer a question about how long I’ve been farming, but it feels important to illustrate that I’m not really just a farmer. For most of…
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Here Comes The Sun: How Sunlight Affects Farmers
Ah, late February. Punxsutawney Phil (only a 45-minute drive away from the farm) predicted six more weeks of winter, and it sure seems like he was right. This month saw a brief respite from the deep freeze of January, but we’re right back in the middle of another very cold stretch, with lows in the…
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What I Learned At My First Farm Conference
An overview of the 2025 PASA sustainable agriculture conference.
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A Professional (Or Home Garden) Germination Setup
The seed-starting season is kicking off in earnest here at Good Dirt Farm, and while the fields are still deep in snow, our indoor germination setup is providing the perfect conditions for seeds to start growing. Our system is about as cheap and simple as it gets, yet it allows us to germinate several hundred…
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An Ode To Garlic
In the bitter cold of February, it is the lone brave soul daring to pop out of the ground through the snow and ice. It powers through the spring, always the biggest and greenest member of the garden through May, usually at least a foot higher than all other growth. Then, the relentless heat of…
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How to Direct Seed Vegetables Like a Pro
If you’ve been following us here at Good Dirt Farm, you probably know that we start the majority of our crops indoors using soil blocks. While that is accurate, some crops aren’t suited to soil blocks for one reason or another. Certain crops need to be sewn very thickly, while others are large-seeded. And then…
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My Best Friend the Stirrup Hoe
A heavy rain fell all day yesterday, and this morning the garden beds are speckled with bright green weeds vying for life in my good dirt. A dismaying sight for me, but in situations like this, there’s always someone who has my back. He (yes, he) is always ready for battle, he never takes a…
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Soil Blocking: An Important Part of Intensive Growing
At Good Dirt Farm, we use a method called soil blocking to start our seedlings before we transplant them