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Sherry from Morgan Hill Farm just won $1000 worth of premium peony roots from Mountain Flower Farm!Here is her story:---The What and Why of Peonies--- I first saw and SMELLED peonies as a small child. … read more

Winter Care of Peony Crops (and others!)For most peony growers in the Northern Hemisphere, it is still winter. Although this doesn’t seem like an ideal time to focus efforts on our crops, there are st … read more

One of the most frequent reasonings I hear to use toxic herbicides like Round-Up, is that “there is no other way to control perennial grasses”. That is not true. The primary reason for herbicide use i … read more

Cover crops are indispensable in the pursuit of creating a farm that is both ecologically and economically sustainable. One of the great challenges in farming is to create cost effective producti … read more

In the last blog post, I wrote about “Why I Farm”, and previous to that, discussed the concept of “Staying in Touch With Nature”. Today I’d like to touch base on the subject of ‘Rewards and Reach”.As … read more