This production line will put out several thousand seedlings of 200 varieties this year (alone 200+ tomato seedlings).
They go into ~600 m2 of veg garden that provides for my family, the family owning the land and some more.
We are self-sufficient with potatoes, onions, garlic, brassicas, herbs and many other vegs and salads.
It takes roughly 300 hours a year to tend the garden.
Everything is organic and #NoDig
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February 14, 2026. Reporting from the southern Minnesota composting space. The compost was covered last fall to moderate the temperatures to get more days of biological action. This compost is frozen solid for our gardening friends in warmer places. The space is a three bin space with imaginary dividers. This works well for managing the materials with a pitchfork. #Zone4b, #compost, #nodig, #compostodon, #minnesota

@LifeTimeCooking There are many varieties of garlic. Thank you to Armenia, Georgia, Krasnador, Persia, and more. #Armenia, #nodig, #growyourown, #garlic.

@LifeTimeCooking We have a three year crop rotation for the garlic, onions, and leeks. There are many varieties of garlic! We grow Aja Rojo, Belarus, Krasnodar Red, Red Grain, Red Rozan, Rosewood, Armenian, Bogatyr, Chenok Red, Estonian, Georgia Crystal, German Extra Hardy, Lotus, Music, Persian Star, Shangdon, and Siberian. #gardening, #zone4b, #minnesota, #nodig, #compost

@Broadfork The video covers organic matter, fungi, nitrogen, and regenerative agriculture. Very nice. #compost, #vermicomposting, #nodig, #gardening

@feinschmeckergarten Excellent. Your gardening methods have been helpful for years. No till helps the creatures overwinter too. Our locality has row crop farming mixed with wood lots, wide drainage features with willows and seasonal hay making. Therefore woods edge birds and the insects they eat have habitat. However, remnant tallgrass prairie bird habitat is rare. This locale was the edge of deciduous woods and oak prairie savanna in the times before Europeans. #nodig, #Zone4b

@Broadfork You are the neighborhood bog witch! Do you have a preferred label for yourself? #compost, #nodig

Winter veg in the raised bed. I’m grateful for our temperate climate here and the variety of veg we can grow, however slowly.

The bed gets residual heat from the house wall which helps but we’ve only had one week of frosts and a couple of days of snow so far this winter. No nights colder than -5°C.
#GrowYourOwn #HomeGrown #NoDig #Solarpunk

We love this variety. We are done shucking dried beans from the 2025 garden season. These lovely heritage beans are the Hidatsa Shield variety. The bean variety is from the Indian tribes of the Missouri River in North Dakota. The supplier is Seed Savers Exchange of Decorah, Iowa. We had hundreds of the lighter color pattern and a surprise with a few of the darker color. #nativeplants, #minnesota, #growyourown, #nodig, #gardening

@Broadfork Smiling. Is the white layer an unexpected guest? The white layer is a lovely blanket in a southern Minnesota winter season. The ecosystem underneath the snow keeps rodents active and foraging, it protects plant crowns from the harmful temperature swings. It reduces soil moisture loss and wind erosion. Conversely the soil ecosystem suffers degradations when the climate crisis melts all the snow cover away. #nodig, #minnesota, #nativeplants

@Broadfork It’s good to see greenery. It appears the wait for free windows was a success. #nodig

I am moving from mastodon.art to mastodon.social. I'm currently doing more gardening than art. Trying to set up a #nodig garden.

December 30, 2025. The runner ducks are foraging during the mild afternoon. They are trooping through the new snow looking around the stems of the raspberries, asters, witch hazel and such. They vocalize excitement at the possibility of foraged food. This is five of eleven. Everyone has molted. They are healthy and happy the days are getting longer. #minnesota, #ducksofmastodon,#growyourown, #composting, #nodig

December 27, 2025. The garden seeds arrived! The photograph has a few interesting varieties. Purple cabbages were successful in 2025. We will expand with the Copenhagen variety. The rocket arugula will be planted in many more spots than last year. The Suyo Long cucumbers produced all growing season. They are back. It’s a big carrot year in the spiral notebook planning. We added a summer squash for fun. And we added another Arikara bean variety. #gardening, #minnesota, #nodig, #Zone4b

Si vols menjar faves per nadal, sembra-les en setembre.

#cultivarSenseCavar #GrowYourOwn #NoDig @gardening

Garlic planting day - all own seed - in a well mulched no-dig bed.

#garlic #ArtistsGarden #ImperfectGarden #garden #gardener #gardening #GardenPhotography #Artist #wolfkettler #permaculture #Photography #GardenWiltshire #WiltshireGarden #Wiltshire #GrowYourOwn #NoDig #VegetableGrowing #vegetables #vegetarian #organic #HealthyEating #HealthyFood #PlantBased #sustainable #vegan #HealthyLifestyle #HealthyLiving #winter #ecology #climate #ClimateChange #conservation #sustainability

As well as the home made compost I also have a bin of Korean Natural Farming IMO4 inside the shed, a worm bin at home in the garage and a bokashi bin to take any unwanted cooked food waste. And there’s a pile of leaf litter turning slowly into leaf mould.

Composting can happen in many guises. I wish more people embraced it in their own lives. We live in an exceptionally wasteful world fast losing our natural biodiversity. #Compost #Composting #NoDig #SoilHealth #Gardening #Allotment #Solarpunk

@Broadfork Thank you for sharing all the different December compost. And your plan is to use the very best of the compost for the soil blocks for starts. The Mastodon composting enthusiasts inspired us to get buckets of compost inside before it’s frozen. This will be our third winter of this step and our second season using soil blocks for the vegetable starts. Thanks all. #compost, #nodig, #minnesota.

This is my composting set up over winter. We are fortunate our winters are mild. The piles are unlikely to freeze.

The two palleted compost bays have been freshly turned.

Four compost Daleks contain maturing compost.

Another compost dalek recieves the weekly veg peelings and garden weeds with sawdust added over the top.

After taking the photos all the compost was covered or lids put back on to keep the rain off. #Compost #Composting #NoDig #Mulch #Gardening #Allotment #Solarpunk