Home - HomeSpun Magazine

Choosing Your Soil Amendments

by KEEGAN UHLER Owner/Operator of Desert Sage Farms Superior Soils, Bend Farming and gardening in Central Oregon can be challenging due to many conditions from the ground up. Most of Central Oregon has young volcanic ash top soil, thus lacking the fundamental elements for successful harvests. Healthy living soil is the foundation for successful gardening. Houses with strong foundations help maintain their integrity through the uncertainty of what Mother Nature has to offer, as does…

Dishing Local Bounty to Raving Local Fans

The Relationship Between Soil & Water in the High Desert

Jar Soil Test

Organic?

Growing 30,000 Pounds of Veggies on One Acre

It’s All About the Soil by Audrey Tehan, Founder & Executive Director of Seed to Table Oregon I can’t count the number of times I have heard someone say, “You can’t grow anything but cheat grass in Central Oregon”. It is certainly true that in the high desert, we do not have the luxury of just throwing seeds on the ground and watching a jungle emerge. At Seed to Table, we sweat, dig, water, pray,…

Dome Grown Produce

Fresh. Organic. Local

Rooper Ranch

Boundless Farmstead

Go Hive Yourself

by Jennifer Sawyer of Go Hive Yourself I don’t like to refer to myself as a “beekeeper” nowadays as that description feels like it leans towards a keeper of bees using commercial management methods — which I did for a couple of years. My views have changed drastically since my days of ten frame Langstroth boxes with foundation (prefabricated comb) to aid in my maintenance and routine hive checks, regularly scraping off all of the…