These blog posts started out as letters to friends and family to tell them about what we were doing, dreaming, thinking about as the Big Foot Food Forest came alive and grew. They cover a wide range of topics, mostly about what we are learning and thinking about as newbie farmers. We hope that by sharing our stories, others can learn from what we did and are doing - including our many mistakes!
BuildingPosts about building straw bale, timber frame, barns, houses, farm stands...
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Chickens and EggsAll about our foibles, troubles, and triumphs with raising chickens, hatching eggs, and building barns!
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InstructionalsInstructions on making stuff that we found useful on our permaculture farm.
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2022Fifth year: we get serious about the food forest, plant many nut trees and build polycultures.
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2021Fourth year: people from all over come to visit the farm and lend a hand. We plant berry fields and build barns.
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2020Third year: Farming keeps us sane during COVID, but living in two places drives us crazy. We start Big Foot Chickens!
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2019 Second year: the suburban food forest grows, we add chickens and a pond. We buy the Big Foot farm land in Montague, MA
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2018First year: permaculture classes, our design process, and suburban backyard becomes a food forest.
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2017Big Foot is launched after we return from wandering through Spain and France along 1000-year old camino paths.
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