Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Frost Seeding

We aren't just planting vegetables and we're not just planting in the greenhouse. We have to tend to our pastures as well. We spent a few days planting clovers to fix nitrogen into the soil and make our sheep extra happy. The seed, as you can see, is beautiful.


Bacteria does the heavy work of fixing nitrogen while clover simply gives the bacteria place to live. We mixed this lovely pile of bacteria into our seed buckets to inoculate the field.


And used super long sticks to stir.


Even though things still look dead and brown, hopefully we'll see our clover peeking up as the ground thaws.


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