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GEM
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remote: https://rubygems.org/
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PLATFORMS
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ruby
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rdiscount
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@ -50,8 +50,9 @@ I can keep it at bay by paying attention to the soil and hoeing proactively.
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Farmer Josh and I also spread hay around the borders of the west crop to try to
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reduce weed pressure by eliminating sunlight adjacent to the plot.
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Each bed created is 34" wide and 20' long. with the alleys that's 10' wide.
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After scraping the weed back, the beds were aerated with a fork, hoed and raked
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Each bed created is 34" wide and 20' long. With the alleys that's 10' wide in
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total.
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After scraping the weed back, the beds were aerated with a fork, hoed, and raked
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to provide some loose top layers for the seeds to establish in.
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### Plants
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@ -110,7 +111,7 @@ proper seeder, it would have likely been less than 15 minutes.
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Overall, the west crop is going to be a good experiment. I'm of the belief that
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anybody can garden in a raised bed with pristine soil, assuming they have good
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sun and water. Working a native soil presents a few more challenges which I
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will have to content with this season. Additionally, since the west crop isn't
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will have to contend with this season. Additionally, since the west crop isn't
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on my property, I'll be making trips out there a few times a week, which will
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require far more planning than the casual "step outside the front door and
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get dirty."
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layout: post
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title: "The philosophical motivations of putting things into and, later pulling different things, out of the ground."
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tags:
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- opinion
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- croyfamilyfarms
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- garden
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---
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Based on my records, which is really just an orange spiral notebook, I
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have been gardening for a bit over three years. During that time, I have
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learned a tremendous amount about the biology that sustains us, and the
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tasks necessary to produce edible, and at times even tasty, food from soil,
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seed, and sunshine. This season is [my most ambitious
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yet](/2017/04/24/the-2017-growing-season.html), I added [an extra 200 sq ft. in the West
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Crop](/2017/05/07/planted-the-west-crop.html) and I planted a variety of
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plants which I've never planted before including bush beans, summer squash,
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potatoes, leeks, beets, pumpkin, strawberries, okra, brussel sprouts, and
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scallions. Despite working at a frenetic pace to get everything going, I have
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had time to reflect and wanted to share some of the **motivations** for my
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gardening zeal.
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<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/agentdero/34128361464/in/album-72157683158804366/" title="North crop"><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4225/34128361464_22c3c1561d_z.jpg" width="640" height="480" alt="North crop"></a>
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After moving to northern California, surrounded by fantastic restaurants, and
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influenced by more savvy friends, I began to appreciate food differently than I
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had while growing up. I began to appreciate flavor, texture, and above all,
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quality of the food.
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After years of consuming, in that first season I started gardening, I produced
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more tomatoes than I could possibly ever consume, and started to share them
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with colleagues. I came to appreciate food on a very different and social
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level: sharing good food is perhaps one of the most primitive levels of
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human goodwill.
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Regardless of whether it's grown, baked, fried, or grilled, there is something
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very fundamentally satisfying about sharing a delicious meal with people, or
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reciprocally, having somebody share a delicious meal with you.
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<a data-flickr-embed="true"
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href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/agentdero/34096099343/in/album-72157683158804366/"
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title="Potato flowers"><img
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src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4196/34096099343_a7f8a80293_z.jpg"
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width="640" height="480" alt="Potato flowers"></a>
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Last year, when I tore up a few hundred square feet of pointless dying sod in
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our front yard, I unwittingly embarked on a quasi-social experiment in my
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neighborhood. Without a fence, for the first time, my garden was publicly
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accessible. Anybody could walk right up, smell the flowers, steal a tomato, or
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kick over a bush. As the idea developed, I set out a wooden picnic table, a
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little wooden "surplus" box, and a water bowl for dogs passing by on hot
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summer days.
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I started to meet people left and right, talking about our respective
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gardens, or other neighborly small talk. Eventually I met Dana, probably 20
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years my senior, who would walk her dog past our house, and enjoyed
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sitting at the picnic table to rest and enjoy the garden.
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Last season I shared tomatoes and zucchini with her, and she shared soups she
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made with me. This season, she's growing sugar snap peas from seed I gave her
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at the end of last year, and already tested some of my radishes and sugar snap
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peas.
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Gardening has broadened my social circle and elicited connections with
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neighbors in a way I had not experienced before.
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<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/agentdero/34432247822/in/album-72157683158804366/" title="More pretty radishes"><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4158/34432247822_25c311b45f_z.jpg" width="640" height="480" alt="More pretty radishes"></a>
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When a person looks across a patch of seemingly inert soil, they probably just see dirt.
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Now, I see the potential for something beautiful and delicious. The novel
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biologic systems that come together to germinate a miniscule seed into
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something edible still fascinate me. Creating an environment into which these
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plants can thrive and do something for me, my friends, and my family, continues
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to excite. The joy from the end result is sufficient to motivate me through
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shoveling, watering, pruning, and all the other menial tasks involved with
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gardening.
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At a more fundamental level, my motivations are probably selfish. Somewhere
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hidden deep in my monkey brain, plucking from the vine or pulling from the
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earth, and sharing that harvest with friends and family certainly triggers some
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happy-monkey-hormones.
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That's what gets me up in the morning, motivates me through the long hot
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afternoons, and keeps me watching carefully as the myriad of green stalks push
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towards the sun.
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A bountiful harvest, a good meal, and those happy-monkey-hormones.
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<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/agentdero/34790087732/in/album-72157683158804366/" title="Official signage"><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4268/34790087732_6bd3ef4978_z.jpg" width="640" height="451" alt="Official signage"></a>
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