I promised an update on how my first seeds starts are coming a long . It isn’t pretty. For some reason I just had terrible germination. The black seeded Simpson lettuce came up really well as you can see. The overabundance of starts in one cell is the result of having my little one help [...]
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Harvest Monday 1-30-2012
January 30th, 2012 
Rick The weather has been fairly wet for the last week or so. Along with the rain (sometimes snow) has come some unseasonably warm temperatures as well. This has given the ground in the mini hoop house a chance to thaw a bit so we decided it was time to clean them out to get ready [...]
Creative Writing!
January 28th, 2012 Rick One of the things bloggers like to do is read other blogs. In fact it was from reading other blogs that I got the inspiration to start Stone Acres. I thought today I would take the chance to high lite some of my favorite blogs! I’m currently reading over 30 different blogs each week and they are [...]
The return of the 10 hour day!
January 28th, 2012 Rick Tomorrow marks the first day of 2012 with total daylight being more that 10 hours here in northern Utah. Officially we will have 10 hours 6 seconds of daylight. This officially marks the end of what winter gardening expert Elliot Coleman calls the Persephone months. The Persephone months are the 3 months roughly from November [...]
Barbecue Chicken and Potatoes – Almost Local
January 26th, 2012 Rick This weeks Dark Days Challenge entry is our least local entry so far. We finally found a local meat producer in a town not too far from us, but they have very limited hours. The actual shop is only open about 4 hours a week. We just haven’t had the time to make it [...]
