Woodland Urban Farm, LLC

06/22/2026

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06/22/2026

I didn't get everything planted today that I wanted to plant, but I worked until it got dark and started to rain. I planted carrots, summer squash (yellow crookneck, yellow straight neck, and zucchini), cabbage (several varieties), kale, cucumbers, and luffas. Some of the seed was as much as 11 years old, though, so we'll see what comes up.

06/21/2026

Planted beets tonight (certified organic seed) and got one section of the deer fence up.

06/20/2026

Planted the millet today.

06/18/2026

Anybody want to buy garlic scapes? They're a bit old and tough to use in a stir fry or as a vegetable side dish, but they'd probably be fine if you minced them and put them in a stew, soup, or on a roast.

If I don't hear from anyone by 7:00 p.m., I'm going to dry and grind them for garlic powder for my family. Sorry, I can't sell you any homemade garlic powder. The state says I can't without a commercial kitchen. But you can make it yourself! Just dry the scapes in the oven until they're crispy, then snap them into smaller pieces to put in a coffee grinder or food processor.

Scape powder is green instead of yellowish-white, and it has an "herbier" flavor than regular garlic powder. I like it, and I haven't seen it in stores. Last time I made it, I used it on popcorn. About half of it, I blended with tomato powder.

Let's price these at a buck for a bundle of ten. If you want some, text me at (614) 787-4855. Don't call, because I generally don't answer numbers I don't recognize due to all the spam. Don't just show up, either, because I'll be in and out all day, and my wife is too busy to help you.

Free delivery may be possible this evening if you get to me early enough, and you happen to be between the farm and Whetstone Library. (There's a free presentation there at 6:00 about food waste reduction. Register with Simply Living if you want to attend.) [Correction: the Simply Living meeting isn't until JULY 16th.)

06/09/2026

https://youtu.be/ladiK62pqic?si=B7GLGuatfqMWxC-5

There are a few small points I'd quibble with him over, but overall, this message is on point. Chickens, like pigs and people, are omnivores, not ruminants. They don't graze. That's not to say (as he seems to suggest here) that they can't digest plant material. You do it with acids in your saliva and stomach to dissolve whatever you put in there after chewing it up with your teeth. Chickens have a gizzard full of little rocks and sand to do the chewing. But they don't break down cellulose fibers any better than we do.

My chickens' primary ration for most of the year is food scraps from restaurant kitchens, supplemented occasionally with commercial pre-mixed, vitamin & mineral fortified chicken feed, as well as cracked corn (mostly in the winter for extra energy). In the summertime, I toss them some weeds from the yard, too. I don't know how much nutrition they actually get from those burdock leaves, but they seem to have fun ripping them apart.

I don't have any eggs for sale at present, but I aim to change that this year. After I set up new pasture fences for my goats and get them out of the pole barn (I had to pen them up while the gas company is out here working on the land), I have plans to convert the barn into a heated poultry barn, with one half being a place to hatch chicks and grow out meat birds, and the other side being for hens, with fenced, covered, outdoor runs to protect them from hawks, minks, and raccoons. The plan is to have big doors on the pens where I can get the tractor in to clean and back my pickup truck in to dump their food scraps right off the truck.

Until then, my hens are inside a large shed for their protection, and I'm hatching their eggs.

To get most (i.e. 50%+) of its diet from pasture, a set of 2,000 ch...

05/30/2026

Cornfield's planted

I'm posting this for my own records as much as anything.

Today I planted:
- 11 rows (approx 15' long) of Rox Orange sorghum, about 3,000 seeds
- 8 oz. of Early Sunglow Hybrid sweet corn
- about 3-4 lbs. of Golden Bantam heirloom sweet corn

Now I need to put some electric fence around it to keep the deer & raccoons out of it.

I have 60+ tomato plants to put in the ground, but I'll probably wait until tomorrow since I only have about an hour of daylight left. I don't want to work the rest of the day transplanting just to find them all munched in the morning. I guess I'll go plant beans and potatoes now.

04/10/2026

84' x 4', one slow pass, three and a half minutes. I love this thing! Now we're growing some food! Probably one whole bed will be potatoes and the other, tomatoes & peppers.

I'll do more for beets, carrots, summer squash, and cabbage, at least. I already did two out front next to the garlic about 20'-30' for onions and maybe some leftover garlic I have sprouting in a bucket.

Down where I grew corn last year, I'll plant oats. And on the other side of the pond where the ground isn't too soft, I'll plant corn...probably sweet corn, but I really haven't decided yet between that, popcorn, or dent corn.

I'm tearing down the old hoop house in the north yard and dedicating most of that space to growing fruit. I have several trees and bushes in pots--apples, peaches, plums, gooseberries, Nanking cherries, hardy kiwi, maybe some pears--in addition to the apples, grapes, raspberries, elderberries, and crabapples I already have in the ground.

A neighbor has offered me several blackberry plants, and I still want to add some hazelnut bushes.

After I move Moo (my Kunekune pig) out of the quonset hut, I'm going to turn it into a greenhouse with its own wood stove. I've got new paddocks planned for the goats and pigs, and I'll be remodeling the pole barn to be my new chicken coops and hatchery.

I'm not ready to start selling eggs again yet, but my hens have at least started laying again now that spring is here. Actually, I think only a few of the old girls are laying. A lot of these are pullet eggs from the babies I hatched last year.

I'll let you know (here, on the website, and in the email newsletter) when I do have something for sale. We put a sliding window on the front room of the house and I'll be installing a doorbell so I can serve you on the front porch.

03/30/2025

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/the-great-pig-war-of-matagorda-county/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

A small-scale hog farm has pitted neighbor against neighbor and local ordinances against state laws.