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Dave Menefee

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by david.menefee on Fri, Nov 6, 2009

I live with my partner Rachel on a 41 acre ranch 6 miles east of Hayfork. We are both involved with TAHA in various ways, and are interested in organic food gardening and local producers.

Location

Hayfork

Rachel Anderson

by rachel on Mon, Nov 9, 2009

I am in my 7th year of gardening. I started with tomatoes in pickle buckets. I now have 13 raised gopher-proof beds and 3 wire-lined trenches in a deer-proof garden area. This season marked my foray into both starting plants from seed and spring/fall/winter gardening. I have cold-hardy brocoli and collards plants in our garden. What a joy to still have plants alive after our first freeze! We also built a cold frame that is now full of salad greens. We are colder here than most of Hayfork, with earlier frosts and freezes. Our future gardening plans are to build a partially in-ground passive solar greenhouse for year-round gardening. And also to continue to share plants and seeds with other gardeners. I want to pass on the gift that was given to me over the years, by other gardeners gifts of plants.

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Offer: Vegetable, herb, and flower seeds 3/15/2010
Offer: Used barn straw 11/10/2009
Offer: Various plants, you dig 11/9/2009

Description

This seed list is updated as of April 20, 2010. I can usually mail these seeds, within reason, of course. BC = Baker Creek. Go to http://rareseeds.com/ to read descriptions. Otherwise, seeds are home grown and/or harvested.

VEGGIES:
- CHICHIQUELITES. BC - '08. Similar to Wonderberry.
- EGGPLANT, THAI YELLOW EGG: BC - '08. Needs longer growing season than I have.
- EGGPLANT, THAI PURPLE EGG: BD - '08. Needs longer growing season than I have.
- MELON, GALIA: Cordtz - '01. Netted skin, green flesh. 

Description

This is "amended straw" for mulching, composting, or amending your soil, I have 4 sheep and 5 goats that spend the night in one barn. Almost any time of the year I am open to cleaning out the barn. The offer: You and I clean the barn together and we load it into your truck for your garden. I use this "amended straw" all the time on my garden, my favorite use as a thick mulch layer that feeds the soil below, as it breaks down. The barn gets dirty faster than I can use it. Contains partially broken down straw, sheep & goat poops, and urine.
 

Description

I have many plants that self sow around our place. In the spring, there are usually plants in places I prefer them not to be. Often, I just have a lot of them and some can be dug out. Most of them are deer resistant, otherwise they would not have flourished so well.
Lamb's Ears, Rose Campion, Feverfew, Catnip, Lemon Balm (Melissa), Oregano (mild with big leaves, I use mostly in salads), Walking/Egyptian Onions (onion sets in fall or plants in spring or summer), Mint (naturalized and very hardy).

Location

Hayfork

Gardener started back in Massachusetts

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by sue.bateman on Tue, Nov 24, 2009

I have been gardening off and on for 30 plus years now.  Our current garden is located in Weavervile and I have a cedar greenhouse where I plant my starts in the early spring.
I prefer to garden organically and I compost all year long.  I was inspired by Ruth Stout back in the 60's.  Ruth gardened in a house dress long into her 80's and produced wonderful produce from her "no work" gardens to which she added rotten hay, leaves and all sorts of organic matter.
I have had the most luck recently with pumpkins, squash and tomatoes.  Last summer, I planted pole beans along my garden fence and enjoyed the results.  I had green beans, Italian beans and lima beans. Potatoes grow very well in my garden.  I simply use organic potatoes and plant them in a heavy composted soil and then layer hay over them. 
In the late fall, I put my garden to bed under a layer of horse manure, hay and a light sprinkling of  lime.  Then the rain and snow do all the work for me and distributte nutrients to the soil.  I do not roto till my garden and I dig the soil with a shovel my hand.  I do not like to disturb the balance of the soil and micro organisms  in it.
Besides veggies, I also like to grow herbs, flowers and fruit.  I have two strawberry patches, rhubarb, a goji bush and 3 peach trees. 

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Wondering-What kind of fig tree can grow in... 5/15/2010
Looking for seeds of interesting sunflowers 11/27/2009
Spider Plant, Swedish Ivy Plant 11/27/2009
Ashwagandha Plant in top condition-TAKEN! But I... 11/27/2009

Description

I would like some interesting sunflower seeds.  I particulary would like Ruby Eclipse Seeds, Orange, Mahogany or Ring of Fire Seeds or anything similar.  I am looking for brown, red, rust, orange and ruby colored petals. 

Description

I have a healthy Swedish Ivy and Spider Plant to give away.  They are both good plants to cleanse the air in your home.

Description

This is also know as the Winter Cherry plant.  Roots of the plant are used by Ayurvedic healers to reduce inflammation, decrease stress and invigorate the body.