Dear Gardeners: The 2023 gardening course is on pause for the 2023 growing season. Both Dan and Jack have become too overwhelmed in their current
The threat of food shortages is a common and recurring theme on mainstream and social media. Fear and hysteria dominate the headlines. Like most people,
As a high school teacher, we used to joke that the three best months of the year were June, July, and August. When I switched
I was dropping potatoes into long furrows I carved with our tractor when an old, rusty pickup drove slowly past my farm and stopped on
“Do you sell ginger?” we’ve often been asked. Staying true to our mandate to only provide local food in our market is certainly a challenge
It’s early April and some of you might be concerned that it’s too late in the season to start your onions. You’ve noticed that most
Microclimates for Season Extension (5:55) The Hotbed: A Glorified Compost to Get an Early Start on the Season It’s exciting after a long winter to
Last week, one of the participants in our gardening course excitedly announced that she had already seeded her sweet peppers. While I understand the eagerness
One rainy night in the summer of 2019, I found myself chasing a stubborn pig that had escaped from its pen. After fifteen minutes of
You trudge groggily down the lane to the mailbox on a frosty winter morning. Opening the squeaky door and reaching inside you discover the glossy
Four seasons gardening is a new concept to the modern gardener. But to our ancestors it meant survival. All their planning and care through the
As regenerative gardeners we know the destructive power of the rototiller. Even a rudimentary understanding of what happens below our feet will make us shun
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Andrew Couzens is a software engineer turned soil scientist.
A life long sufferer with inflammatory bowel disease, he was motivated to enter the agricultural space in an effort to “be the change” he believed was necessary to heal his own body.
Healthy plants come from healthy soil, and healthy soil comes from working with nature, not against it.
Leveraging his knowledge and experience in software engineering, he started Terra Flora Organics with a goal of helping conventional growers move from unsustainable practices that destroy soil and negatively affect the health of people and the planet, to regenerative practices that allow intensive farming whilst building soil and healing our minds and our bodies.
