Ye Old Farm

[Sage Hermit]

This year the plums did not ripen or produce flowers. Still working on massing fukuoka's beds and planting maily raspberies for next year. Planing on doing red bell pepper, 3 sisters, wide variety of mint sage and other herbs, strawberries, blue berries, carrots beets, basically everything I said I wanted plus flowers galore.

Finally landed a sweet job in the cities and can finance this farm on my own.

I pray you all get rewarded graciously by God for helping me.

[The Helpful Gardener]

I hear he's keen on those that help themselves...

We're just cheering for you...

Congrats on the new gig, Sage; just landed a good deal myself. Very happy for both of us. C'mon, economy...



HG

[Sage Hermit]

Originally posted by Sage Hermit
I pray you all get rewarded graciously by God for helping me.

Mother Nature?

[garden5]

Sounds like you have a lot of great things to look forward to next year , great to hear about the new job, as well!

Half the fun of gardening is planning out the future seasons .

Glad to hear your employment is going good as well, HG.

[gixxerific]

Nice place looks like you still have a lot of work in front of you. I want to come and play.

Great idea using all the barn wood for this and that.

Not sure if you know this or not. Not sure either the condition or quality of the barn wood but people pay a LOT of money for it. We see it used as fireplace mantels or beams in ceilings etc. You wouldn't believe how much they pay for this stuff either. Something to look into if that so interest you.

[Sage Hermit]

Tell me about it. I had stacked up all these cedar poles and people in the area were very interested in getting them from me but I need em for building raised beds and stuff.

Come play in my flowers! Next year I plan on starting a massive sunflower patch and harvesting honey. If you like archery too thats fun. We fish in the river and you can catch clams. Would be nice having The Helpful Gardener Community members come and give me feed back but we are almost in Canada. Its by Sandstone, MN and getting subzero temps. is common.

P.S. My list of seeds to swap is almost finished.

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Go Gixx!

[DoubleDogFarm]

Sage,

I've practically been in your back yard. My cousin and her husband owned Sah Kah Tay on Cass Lake, off highway 2. They sold the resort years ago, but still live in Bemidji. My aunt and uncle owned a resort on Norway Lake. Sunset Resort was the name. Spent 6 weeks there one summer.

My parents are from a small town Noonan ND. Right on the Canada border.

Eric

[Sage Hermit]

Dear everyone,

My goals are 90% complete. last 10% involves building a stable green house and finish collecting native plant seeds.

Seeds:

Sweet Basil + Tai Basil
Native sun flower
catnip
Marigold mixed colors mainly orange.
meadow rue
Valerian
Tomato
Sage brush
Sage salvia officianalis
Mint
Day lilies
Purple prairie phlox
black samson echinachea
black eyed susan
brown eyed susan
morning glories - mixed colors mainly purple.
patunia purple
poppys red

bergamot
hysops
Violets
Ferns lady
Fuchsia
Butter and eggs
Lupine.
Pink clover

Stinging Nettle
Wild Mint




Once I learn how to grow trees from combs and seeds and other methods I will update my list with trees.

We have 2 cedar trees and a lot of pine and other cool trees! I need basswood trees and plum and apple trees.

My vision is to put as many awesome plants and bees in my farm and have super honey! Also I need to figure out the moss cultivation so I can grow it too.

Love

[Sage Hermit]

Year old. Raspberrie/Catnip/Lemon Balm


These mounds are growing morels...


New Mint and Pineapple Sage extension. Sage is turning brown. Rained a lot wonder whats up



Beginning of double curve

[Sage Hermit]

The area I am building in has tons of raspberries and so I will simply relocate them to the mound. The originall experiment used first year canes and this year they reached their full potential and out grew and out produced their free counterparts outside the mound. Food for me and flowers for bees. 0 cost.


Got the system down. These mounds should be in construction for a long time period.

I added 18 Pineapple Mints, 18 Spear Mint, 18 Regular sage (salvia officianalis), 5 Catmints, 18 Tai Basil, 18, Lavender, 5 Basil Mint, 7 Chocolate Mints, 5 Grapefruit Mint. 1 Goji berry bush, 18 rosemary 10 thyme.

My plan is make a huge arching row around the property of herbs then put some bee hives in later.

I still can't get over the fact that morrel mushrooms were growing in my mounds that were untouched for a year. That was a good sign that the fukuoka style is perfected.

[Marlingardener]

The progress you have made is simply amazing! I love the idea of surrounding the bee hives with herbs--mutually beneficial.
A word of warning about bees and sunflowers. Bee honey that is made primarily from sunflowers solidifies quickly. It can be liquified again by heating, but then it isn't "raw" honey. Since bees forage in a three mile radius from their home hive, you probably won't have a problem with getting almost exclusive sunflower honey. It sounds like you have a great variety of nectar/pollen plants for the bees to feast on.

[greenheirloom]

I think it has a ton of potential. Looks like a beautiful old farm. Get out there and get started with it!

[Sage Hermit]

Thanks for that interesting fact about sunflower honey crystallizing quicker. Interesting to know. Plan for adding basswood will take place this year perhaps. I wonder if there is a company that truck in large ones. Basswood is a highly medicinal food source and has a minty flavor when used for producing honey. My teacher's apiary started by planting basswood and pink clover. His Wife also grows Rhubarb and other foods for cooking. He mentioned basswood and clover as being their food source and since his honey was the best I just assumed it had a good reason so I looked it up.Really need to rely heavily on those for medicinal honey but bees like variety too and their health is important as the honey.
I really love the basswood and clover honey but I want to also alternate with sage honey. Sage honey is also very beneficial and has a completely different taste that is my second favorite. 3rd is Orange blossom but I would love some lemon blossom honey! drooling now.

We will talk more when I get out there again and take nice pictures. I love taking pictures of my hard work. Hope you all are doing well and you in the drought areas get a flood:

[Sage Hermit]

The Original Herb Mound. Raspberry and Catnip

Catnip seeds for life.

Next section of the Herb Mound. Pineapple Sage.

2nd Section: Pineapple Sage / Sage / Spearmint/ Lemon Balm/ Catmint/ Pineapple Mint/ Thyme.

2nd Section close up

3rd Section: Catmint/Tai Basil/ Sweet Basil/ Sage/ Pineapple Mint/ Pepper Mint

4th Section: Sage/ Thyme/ Lavender/ Rosemary/ Spearmint/





Tasty tomatoes!


Subtle side

[Sage Hermit]

Hi All you Pumkins. I have been gone for a really along time and just wanted to say Hi. This year was fun and exciting and I have been so busy! I met a Farmer who I traded all my herbs for her veges. I traded a lot of thyme basil mint sage and catnip for all kind of wonders like chocolate sweet peppers, yellow water mellon, cantaloupe , corn, Hot peppers you name it. It felt really good like having a lot of money in the form of plants. Made some progress on the mounds. Will be digging until it gets too cold.