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Hobby farm home magazine december 20111/11/2024 ![]() ![]() Transplanting is all done by hand and seeding is done with an Earthway precision seeder. Unfortunately, the wheel spacing on the tractor doesn’t work out well for using the furrowers on a convenient spacing, and it’s also difficult to use them for hilling, given the size of the tractor. The farm also has a simple tool bar with three furrowers, which are used to pull furrows for potatoes and leeks. ![]() Spreading amendments is done with a Scotts 3000 lawn drop spreader that was salvaged from a dumpster and was drilled out to allow more material to flow. The cart can also be outfitted with a rolling bed marker to mark out the planting lines, as well as inline spacing for transplants. Bed pathways are marked out using a custom garden cart with wheels on 3’ centers (see October 2010 GFM). Because the tiller is so wide and the plantings are typically small, we turn a single pass into two beds on 3’ centers (2’ bed tops). I was impressed that it doesn’t really impede visibility either, and with rear-view mirrors, it also saves some neck strain when making close passes with the tiller or mower. A cab on a tractor protects the driver from dust, noise, sun and cold. This equipment is totally oversized for the farm’s needs, but it actually works pretty well and I have to say that having a cab on the tractor is a great thing that I never would have considered before. A combination of a 6’ Woods rotary mower, a 6’ Woods rototiller, and a 5-shank Schmeiser chisel plow are used to prepare beds for planting. I’ve also added some of the equipment selections to the farm so they may be familiar to regular readers of my articles, although quite a bit of the equipment preceded me so there are a few items that I haven’t yet written about.įor tillage and bed preparation the farm uses a Kubota L5030, which has a cab and front-end loader/front forks (54”center to center on wheels). I helped set up the farm in its current form and chose to have more people working part time instead of just one or two working full time, and that arrangement has worked well for the last three years. Although the businesses are run separately, the restaurant is the sole customer for the farm, buying everything the farm can produce and providing input into the crop selection.Ģ011 is the fourth full season for the farm, which harvests year-round and employs three to four folks three days a week. ![]() The farm is owned by the same couple who owns Meriwethers Restaurant in Portland, 12 miles from the farm. Skyline Farm is located just outside of Portland, Oregon. I don’t want to leave out the smaller farms, though, and one farm I work with that falls into that category is Skyline Farm with about 1.5 acres in mixed vegetables plus small plantings of small grains and dry beans, berries, tree fruit, perennial herbs and cut flowers. The principles of economy - of working with what you have - are honored.In the past few issues, I’ve profiled the equipment choices of three farms from 16 acres to 90 acres. "You have the feeling that Thoreau would have approved of Tryon Farm. "The land exudes the quiet and stillness of a rural batting the suburban malaise and preserving a bit of the natural habitat." Conscious Choice magazine After a few years of falling in love with the conserved land and the fabulous architecture that blends contemporary design with structures that are in complete harmony with the natural surroundings, they purchased a 2,000 square foot permanent home." On Common Ground (Winter 2006) "The Dennis family first bought a little 600 square foot cabin in Tryon as a weekend get-away. Thankfully, developments like Tryon Farm are proving that all new housing doesn't have to be in cookie cutter subdivisions." The News-Dispatch, (Michigan City, Indiana) "Expansion of urban areas into the countryside seems inevitable. "Development usually clashes with preserving green space, but Tryon Farm has shown land can be set aside, not by government requirement, but because people want it." The News-Dispatch, (Michigan City, Indiana) it's also helping visitors unravel some of the conundrums of modern life." The Times (Portage, Indiana) "The simple but elegant Tryon Farm is gaining national attention as the wave of smart future housing. "Tryon Farm (is) an environmentally sensitive farm-based development in NW Indiana that takes advantage of a growing demand for community, kinship, and distinctive homes amid wide-open natural spaces.at Tryon Farm homeowners can also see goats, herds of deer in the meadows, alfalfa in working fields and rare green herons prancing stoically in restored wetlands." New York Times a conservation development dedicated to keeping its land as natural as possible." Chicago Sun-Times ![]() "It's a modern-day Little House On the Prairie. "Tryon Farm, in northern Indiana, breaks new ground for new-home development." Chicago Tribune Michigan City, Indiana was recently named one of 5 terrific & affordable locations. ![]()
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