Entries by Camp Bennett

We are turning rotting hay into a garden bed

Spoiled hay looks like a problem. We’re treating it as a solution. This pile has been sitting long enough to grow its own fungal ecosystem — which, it turns out, is exactly what you want when you’re trying to build a garden bed from scratch. We’re using what’s already on-site to start layering in some […]

Relax to some calming bee-roll 😎

This all started with a 10 pound bag of Crimson Clover seed that I bought on Amazon, $35, to help stabilize the exposed soil around the ADU we were building those seeds have become a huge volume of nitrogen fixing biomass that is beautiful, and attracts and supports thousands of individual pollinators from several different […]

Moving a farm stand that wasn’t built on skids

How we prepped our land to bring home a new farm stand that wasn’t on skids Befriended neighbors with heavy machinery Leveled the land with a skidsteer Laid down landscape fabric Spread gravel Compacted gravel Moved farm stand off trailer with skidsteer and forks Moved it with large tractor and forks onto cinder blocks and […]